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BLEONA
Born: Monday 14th of May 1979
Birthplace: Albania
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Profession: Musician
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Brown
Height: 177 cm (or 5'10")
Weight: 66 kg (or 146 lbs)
Body type: Average
Boobs: Real/Natural
Years active: 2000 - present (started around 21 years old; 23 years in the business)
Through the sheer force of her extraordinary talent, bold vision, and larger-than-life personality, pop singer Bleona has achieved international stardom and emerged as a global icon. From her first performance in Albania as a teen, critics spotlighted her powerful vocals and charmingly brash persona. Since,
BLEONA
Born: Monday 14th of May 1979
Birthplace: Albania
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Profession: Musician
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Brown
Height: 177 cm (or 5'10")
Weight: 66 kg (or 146 lbs)
Body type: Average
Boobs: Real/Natural
Years active: 2000 - present (started around 21 years old; 23 years in the business)
Through the sheer force of her extraordinary talent, bold vision, and larger-than-life personality, pop singer Bleona has achieved international stardom and emerged as a global icon. From her first performance in Albania as a teen, critics spotlighted her powerful vocals and charmingly brash persona. Since, sheâs sold millions of albums, won multiple music awards, graced dozens of magazine covers, and performed for hundreds of millions of fans â all while operating as a completely independent artist.
As part of her fast-growing acting career, Bleona has won the hearts of the writer, director and producers of the soon be worldwide release television series, âPaper Empireâ. A smart and edgy crime drama. Bleona plays a vocalist, starting at the bottom and attempting to make it completely on her own in a county foreign to hers. (Sounds Familiar) Bleona stars along with Denise Richards, Wesley Snipes, Robert Davi, Steve Gutenberg and Anne Archer.
Bleona also appeared alongside Nicolas Cage in the 2018 movie â#211â and co-starred with Dolph Lundgren in 2017âs âDead Triggerâ. Fresh off her role as a celebrity judge on the âX Factorâ Albania, she also joined the jury of âYour Face Sounds Familiarâ (a celebrity-impersonation competition broadcast in over 60 countries). And to cement her status as a fashion trailblazer, Bleona recently made headlines around the world by hitting the Vanity Fair Oscar Party where her presence was an automatic showstopper on the red carpet. Oscar night followed her much-talked-about appearance at the 2014 American Music Awards.
Bleona continues her trajectory into global pop fame with original HIT songs that daringly expand her sound. Those songs include her summer 2018 single âI Donât Need Your Loveâ: a deeply personal track that finds Bleona defining her strength as a ballad singer. âIâd gone through a very turbulent time in my private life, so it felt right to channel my struggles into the art of music, to bare my pain so all that follow me understands where I came from, and how negative energy can be beaten,â Bleona explains. âIâm still a dance singer and will keep on making dance music, but it is important to me that I relate to those that are experiencing what I did. I want to share with them and to let them know that theyâre not alone.â
âBleona teamed up with producers Rob Knox (Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Britney Spears) and Fede Vindver to create the stripped-back yet soaring âI Donât Need Your Love, two cohorts of her longtime collaborator, the hitmaking super-producer Timbaland. In another game-changing departure, the edgy and artfully shot video for âI Donât Need Your Loveâ marks Bleonaâs long-awaited directorial debut.
Bleona stated that directing, âI Donât Need Your Loveâ was a passion of mine, and because I always wanted to personally present my vision to my fans. âI Donât Need Your Loveâ was the most perfect song in which to do so.
Bleona also directed the video for âMonsterâ â her slow-burning, irresistibly epic follow-up to âI Donât Need Your Love.â Filmed at the majestic Villa Erba (a 19th-century villa near Lake Como in Italy), with its lavish costumes supplied by Marjan Malakpour (a stylist for Cher and Shakira), the video beautifully matches the songâs spellbinding intensity. ââMonsterâ is another ballad, about a fairy-tale love gone wrong,â says Bleona. âItâs about ending up with a man who thinks he can tame you, but youâre an artist and your boundaries cannot be restricted. Itâs a story very close to my heart.â
Both âI Donât Need Your Loveâ and âMonsterâ are set to appear on Bleonaâs EP, due out early next year. In bringing the EP to life, sheâs purposely tapped into the fearlessly defiant spirit thatâs long fueled her music. âMy songs are rebellious and all about girl power,â Bleona says. âIâve always had a strong do-it-yourself attitude and believed that if somethingâs important to you, you will find a way to make it happen.â With all the inspirational sway of a true pop legend, Bleona wants to create songs that empower her listeners as well.
Born in Korçë, Albania, Bleona Qereti first revealed her vocal talents at age five, when she was cast in the Albanian answer to The Mickey Mouse Club. At 13, she began sneaking away from her rigorous, finance-focused high school studies (âMy parents basically said, âYou will not be tra-la-la-ing your whole lifeââ) to rehearse six days a week in a nearby theater â her homelandâs equivalent to Broadway, where she landed starring roles. At 14, Bleona took a major step forward in her musical career by singing at Albaniaâs National Music Festival (the countryâs premier music event), where she was recognized as its youngest performer. The following year, Bleona took the same festival by storm with a crowd-thrilling performance of her song âLet Me Be Free,â casting off her shawl mid-song to unveil a racy blue-leather ensemble that the producers had warned her against wearing. âWhen I finished my song, the place was dead quiet for about three seconds,â Bleona recalls. âAnd then everyone went crazy screaming, and the next morning I was on the front page of every newspaper.â
Not content to rest on her overnight fame, Bleona spent much of 1996 through 2000 touring Albania and gaining her reputation as an electrifying live performer. In 1998, she put out her debut album I Run My Own Game â a self-funded, self-released effort and utter anomaly in her country. âAlbums werenât even a concept in Albania then,â Bleona points out. âEveryone just lived off the one song theyâd sung in the festival.â By 2001, sheâd released two more albums (1999âs âIf You Really Love Meâ and 2000âs âI Could Care Lessâ) and landed a deal to perform 80 concerts a year all over Europe for the next four years. In the meantime, Bleona earned her degree in acting from the Academy of Arts in Tirana, starring in such plays as Chekhovâs Uncle Vanya. She also continued to turn out chart-busting albums, including 2002âs âNeed to Learn How to Loveâ (which she supported with a multi-city tour attended by up to 50,000 people per show) and 2003âs âYou Werenât Man Enough For Meâ (which sold an unprecedented 300,000 copies within months of its release). After releasing âBoom Boomâ in 2005, she offered up 2007âs âMandarinâ and saw her career climb to dizzying new heights as the album sold more than 800,000 copies around the world.
Soon after performing in America for the first time â at New York Cityâs Webster Hall â Bleona decided to make her way to the U.S. âIâd hit the ceiling back home, so it was time for me to go global,â she says. âI was on tour in Germany and Timbaland had just come out with âThe Way I Areâ and it was just so clear to me: âWhy donât I go to America and make a record with this guy?â I didnât even have a visa, but that didnât stop meâ Her plan was set in motion when she was invited to perform for Donald Trump at his private membership club Mar-A-Lago, a performance that led to Bleonaâs making the acquaintance of 16-time Grammy Award-winner David Foster, who encouraged her to relocate to Los Angeles.
After moving to L.A. in September 2010, Bleona crossed paths with Timbaland at the Grammy Awards and began pursuing a collaboration with him. About a year later she made her American debut with the Timbaland-produced âShow Offâ (feat. Petey Pablo), then joined forces with the producer again for 2012âs âPass Outâ (feat. Timbaland and Brasco). Also in 2012, Bleona enlisted members of Timbalandâs crew (including his official DJ Freestyle Steve) for a spur-of-the-moment European tour that she organized and booked herself in a matter of days. âWe got to the first concert and thereâs 70,000 people there, and the guys are like, âWhoa, is this for us?ââ Bleona remembers. Blown away that âthe same girl whoâd spent a year hanging around Timbalandâs studio asking for a songâ was able to draw a sold-out stadium-sized crowd, Bleonaâs tour mates reported back to Timbaland to clue him in on her diva status and star power. âAfter Tim saw the footage of that first concert, he told me, âAll right, when you come back, weâre gonna speak in a different language,ââ she says.
Working with A-list producers like RoccStar (Usher, J.Lo), Fuego (Sia, Iggy Azalea), and Rodney âDarkchildâ Jerkins (BeyoncĂ©, Lady Gaga), Bleona dedicated herself to forging her own distinct sound â a beat-heavy brand of high-passion dance-pop. As she sharpened her vision, Bleona also scrubbed the internet of countless videos that had amassed upwards of 40 million views. âThey werenât at the level that Iâm at today, and they donât reflect who I am as an artist,â she says, adding: âNow that theyâre not online anymore, theyâve become like collectibles for my older fans.â
Arriving in September 2013, Bleonaâs single âTake It Like a Manâ shot to #7 on the UK charts entirely on the strength of its fierce attitude and club-ready beat, while 2014âs fabulously tongue-in-cheek âF**k You Iâm Famousâ made its way into steady rotation on SiriusXM. That same year, Bleona proved to be the breakout star of the Bravo TV reality series Euros of Hollywood, winning over viewers with her offbeat humor and outrageous personality. And in spring 2015, she took the stage of the Albanian edition of The X Factor to unleash an unforgettable, canât-look-away performance of her single âTake You Over.â Stepping from a metal cage, the startlingly gorgeous force of nature tore through her massive club anthem while getting up close with her wildly adoring crowd.
Over the years, Bleona has built up a tremendous fanbase within the LGBT community. Along with serving as the grand marshal at the 2013 Las Vegas Pride, she became the only artist (apart from Lady Gaga) to be invited to perform two years in a row at the legendary White Party â an honor that included headlining the 2014 partyâs 25th anniversary celebration. Sheâs also invested in the worldâs most illustrious fashion photographers (including Vogueâs Vincent Peters) and art designers to create the luxurious and elite âBLEONAâ â a global brand thatâs unfailingly consistent with her music, personality, and message. In addition to launching [Link removed - login to see] (an e-commerce site featuring custom jewelry, apparel, and shoes), she also launched a fashion line in partnership with ShoeDazzle, which has become a bestseller for the site.
As she finishes up her forthcoming EP, Bleona is also planning for an extensive tour and pushing forward with her acting career. Through it all, the unstoppable pop enigma has embraced the ups and down of playing by her own rules and following through on an unlikely dream, rising up from a place where opportunities are limited to none and transforming herself into a triple-threat superstar. âWhen I was a little girl, I set a goal to be an icon in my country,â she says. âWhen that happened, I needed to set a new goal, and thatâs why I am here. I could have stayed back home and enjoyed my status there, but I wanted to get out of my comfort zone and take it to the next level. And I love the challenge of that more than anything. If you tell me, âNo, this canât be done,â then guess what? Thatâs exactly what Iâm going to do.â
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