ManuElla

Slovenian singer
  • Pop • Pop-rock • Country-pop
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • music producer
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
  • bass-guitar
  • accordion piano
  • guitar
Years active2011–presentWebsitehttps://www.manuellaofficial.com
Musical artist

Manuella Brečko (born 31 January 1989), better known as Manu, and formerly known as ManuElla, is a Slovenian singer, songwriter and music producer. She represented Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "Blue and Red.[2]

Life and career

Manuella was born in Celje, present day Slovenia. At the age of 6, she started to play accordion, with 9, piano and with the age of 12, she started to play bass-guitar and formed a band. At the age of 16, she performed on the National television in the second season of Bitka talentov. In 2011 she competed in Misija Evrovizija and placed in the Semi-final.

In 2012, Brechko graduated from music production at the University of Electrical Engineering, Ljubljana.

On 5 January 2016, she was announced as one of the ten competing artists in EMA 2016, with the song "Blue and Red".[3] In the final, held on 27 February, she was declared the winner.[2]

Brechko represented Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 performing during the second semi-final held on May 12, 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden.

In December 2016, she moved to Stockholm, to forge an international career. In 2017, Manu released her comeback single 'Salvation' which garnered attention on streaming services and became the highest streamed non-Eurovision single by a Slovenian solo artist. In early 2018, it was revealed Manu would re-enter EMA with the song 'The Sound'.

Manu's third single since her Eurovision participation, 'Only Love', was released in April 2020, serving as the lead single from her upcoming album 'Sunrise'. The second single, 'Forever Flow', was released in July 2020.

Discography

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions Album
SLO
"Il futuro" 2013 —
"V tvojem ognju (Inferno)" —
"Zadnji ples" —
"Barve" —
"Silent Night" 2014 —
"Blue and Red" 2016 1
"Salvation" 2017 —
"The Sound" 2018 —
"Only Love" 2020 — Sunrise
"Forever Flow" 2020 — Sunrise
"—" denotes a single that did not chart or was not released.

References

  1. ^ "RTVSLO.si".
  2. ^ a b "It's ManuElla for Slovenia!". eurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. 27 February 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  3. ^ "Znana imena nastopajočih na izboru EMA 2016" (in Slovenian). RTVSLO. 5 January 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
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Preceded by
Maraaya
with "Here for You"
 Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest
2016 		Succeeded by
Omar Naber
with "On My Way"
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ParticipationArtistsSongs
  • "Amen"
  • "Blue and Red"
  • "Carpe Diem"
  • "Cvet z juga"
  • "Dan najlepših sanj"
  • "Disko"
  • "Energy"
  • "For a Thousand Years"
  • "Here for You"
  • "Hvala, ne!"
  • "Love Symphony"
  • "Mr Nobody"
  • "Naj bogovi slišijo"
  • "Nanana"
  • "Narodnozabavni rock"
  • "No One"
  • "On My Way"
  • "Prisluhni mi"
  • "Round and Round"
  • "Samo ljubezen"
  • "Sebi"
  • "Stay Forever"
  • "Stop"
  • "Straight into Love"
  • "Tih deževen dan"
  • "Verjamem"
  • "Veronika"
  • "Voda"
  • "Vrag naj vzame"
  • "Zbudi se"
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Final
Semi-finals
  • "Blue and Red"
  • "Dona"
  • "Fairytale"
  • "Falling Stars"
  • "Hear Them Calling"
  • "Help You Fly"
  • "I Didn't Know"
  • "Icebreaker"
  • "The Last of Our Kind"
  • "Ljubav je"
  • "Play"
  • "The Real Thing"
  • "Sing It Away"
  • "Soldiers of Love"
  • "Sunlight"
  • "Utopian Land"
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  • "Moment of Silence"
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