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PERSONAL DATES
• REAL NAME: ELENA-ALEXANDRA APOSTOLEANU
• BORN: 16 OCTOBER 1986; MANGALIA, ROMANIA
• EDUCATION: OVIDIUS UNIVERISTY OF CONSTANTA
• OCUPATION: SINGER, SONGWRITER
• NATIONALITY: ROMANIAN
• As a child, Inna competed as a swimmer and
became interested in football and basketball as • Adopting the stage name
well as music. Alessandra in 2008, she
• She listened to a variety of musical styles as a entered "Goodbye" and
teenager, including electro house and europop, "Sorry" to represent Romania
and to artists such as Beyoncé, Christina
at the Eurovision Song
Aguilera, Celine Dion and Whitney Houston
• Inna attended the sole, now dissolved, elementary
Contest 2008 neither was
school in Neptun. selected.
• Following this, the singer enrolled at Colegiul •  The singer performed
Economic (Economy College) in Mangalia, later "Goodbye" live on
studying political science at Ovidius the primetime TV
University in Constanţa. show, Teo!, her first televised
• She also took singing lessons and participated in appearance.
music festivals. • Later that year, she changed
•  An early foray into the music industry was an
unsuccessful audition for the Romanian band
her stage name to Inna since
A.S.I.A it was easy to memorize and
• When Inna worked in an office, her manager was the name her grandfather
heard her singing and contacted the production called her when she was
team Play & Win with whom she recorded several young.
songs.

LIFE AND CAREER

 Inna's debut single, "Hot", was sent to Romanian radio stations in
August 2008.
PERIOD OF 2008-2011
 The track was also commercially successful throughout Europe, and
topped Billboard’s Hot Dance Airplay chart in early 2010.
 "Love" (2009) was released as Inna's second single, reaching number
four in Romania.
  The singer received the first nominations of her career at the 2009
Eska Music Awards in Poland for "Hot". 
 Her Romanian label, Roton, signed a contract with the American
label Ultra Records in April 2009.
 Inna had her second number-one hit in Romania with "Amazing", her
fourth single, in 2009. 
 The song was originally written by Play & Win for Romanian singer
Anca Baidu, who later complained they had "stolen" it. 
 Inna's debut studio album, Hot, was released in August 2009 and also
included the last single "10 Minutes" (2010).
  The record was commercially successful and was certified Gold in
Romania and Platinum in France. 
 As of December 2011, it had sold 500,000 copies worldwide Inna was
the Best Romanian Act at the 2009 and 2010 MTV Europe Music
Awards, the first Romanian artist to win the award in two consecutive
years.
 In 2010, she was also nominated for Best European Act.
  Inna's sixth single, "Sun Is Up", was released in October 2010 . and
peaked at number two on the Romanian Top 100.
  It did well in a number of other European countries, earning Gold in
Switzerland and Italy and Silver in the United Kingdom.
  "Sun Is Up" won the Eurodanceweb Award in 2010, the first time
Romania had won the award.
  That year, Inna also received a career award at the Zece Pentru
România Awards.
  She released her second studio album, I Am the Club Rocker, in
September 2011. The album was promoted by the I Am the Club
Rocker Tour (2011–12) of Europe and the United States .
  During Mexican dates, Inna did several interviews and radio
appearances.
  She had her first major Romanian concert at the Arenele Romane
(Roman Arena) in Bucharest, where she arrived by helicopter "like a
diva".
• Titled "Club Rocker" (2011), the second single from I Am the Club
Rocker was moderately successful.
• Three subsequent singles, "Un Momento" (2011), "Endless" (2011)
and "Wow" (2012), were released from the album.
• According to Libertatea, Inna became the highest-paid Romanian
and Eastern European artist in 2011.

PERIOD OF 2008-2011
 Televiziunea Română (TVR) approached Inna in early 2012 to
represent Romania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, but she
turned the offer down due to scheduling conflicts
  In the same year, she released the single "Caliente", which she
dedicated to her Mexican fans "Tu și eu", a Romanian
language single, received heavy airplay in Romania and peaked
at number five.
 This was followed by another top ten hit, "Inndia"
(2012).On New Year's Eve, Inna presented a concert at Meydan
Racecourse in Dubai.
 She released her third studio album, Party Never Ends, in March
2013,
 Arty Never Ends peaked at number ten in Mexico, and was  “Cola Song", a collaboration with J Balvin released under Atlantic Records in
nominated for Best Album at the 2013 and 2014 Romanian April 2014, was successful in Europe, and was certified Platinum
Music Awards. by Productores de Música de España (PROMUSICAE).
 In March 2013, Inna was the guest singer on "P.O.H.U.I." by the  In 2014, Inna collaborated a second time with Pitbull on "Good Time", and
Moldavian music project Carla's Dreams, which reached number was featured on Romanian rapper Puya's "Strigă!“
three in Romania  She released her fourth, eponymous studio album in October 2015.
 In late 2013, Inna contributed to Pitbull's "All the Things" on  Another version of the album, Body and the Sun, was released in Japan in July
his EP, Meltdown . 2015.
 One of the singles released from the record was "Diggy Down" (2014), her
third number-one hit in Romania Inna's next single, "Bop Bop" (2015), peaked
at number two in Romania, and "Rendez Vous" (2016) was certified Gold in
PolandInna also contributed uncredited vocals to Carla's Dreams "Te
rog", which went on to reach number one in Romania.

PERIOD OF 2012-2016
 In August 2016, Inna was the opening act at the Untold
Festival.
 In early 2017, Inna was announced as a coach
on VoceaRomânieiJunior  with Andra and Marius Moga.
 The singer's fifth studio album, Nirvana, was released in
December 2017.
 Singles featured on the record included "Gimme
Gimme" (2017), "Ruleta" (2017) and "Nirvana" (2017).
 Another pair of top ten singles in Romania, "Nota de
plată" and "Pentru că", followed in late 2017 and 2018
with Moldovan group The Motans.
 Inna released her sixth studio album, Yo, in May 2019.
 Containing songs written solely in Spanish, Inna took
entire creative control over the record and worked
extensively with Romanian producer David Ciente.  "Ra” was released as the record's lead single in September 2018. 
 It was promoted by several public appearances in Mexico and the United States—
including the 2018 Telehit Awards and 19th Annual Latin Grammy Awards—as well as by
Inna's inclusion in magazines such as Rolling Stone and Vogue México y Latinoamérica.
 The singer also signed a record deal with Jay-Z's record label Roc Nation "Iguana", her
follow-up single, went on to reach number four in Romania.
  In August, Inna launched her digital magazine titled InnaMag.The non-album release
"Bebe" with Ugandan artist Vinka peaked at number one on the native Airplay 100 in
March 2020.
 Inna was selected as a juror for Pro TV's upcoming The Masked Singer Romania show.

2016-PRESENT
IN CONCLUSION INNA IS A ROMANIAN
ARTIST, HER SONGS HAVE REACHED THE
COUNTRIES AND NOT ONLY, SHE IS
KNOWN WORLDWIDE .
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