Anja Rupel
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Anja Rupel (born March 19, 1966) is a Slovene pop singer, songwriter, radio announcer, and journalist.
Anja has occupied herself with music since her childhood. She has played the flute for over ten years.
In 1982, she began to perform as a lead vocalist with a techno-pop/electropop group called Videosex, which became very popular in the former Yugoslavia. The group has recorded four albums. The debut album, Videosex 84 appeared in 1983 and they first played together with Ekatarina Velika (Catherine the Great) and Otroci socializma (Children of Socialism) in Belgrade. The group fell apart in 1992.
Anja then went on to her solo career and, in 1994, she recorded her first album Odpri oči (Open your eyes).
For a while, she was performing with the industrial/techno group Laibach from Trbovlje, Slovenia. In 1988, she sang The Beatles' hymn, "Across The Universe" and was the first Slovene to be featured on MTV.
On 11 October 2002, she gave birth to her daughter, Luna. She is married to musician and singer Aleš Klinar who has been a leader of a folk-pop group Agropop.
She has also performed in a 1987 movie Zločinci (Criminals) directed by Franci Slak, and in several other films.
Her uncle Dimitrij Rupel was a foreign secretary of Slovenia.
Discography
- with Videosex, Videosex 84, 1983,
- with Videosex, Lacrimae Christi,
- Odpri oči (Open your eyes), 1994,
- Življenje je kot igra (Life is as a game),
- Moje sanje (My dreams),
- Ne ustavi me nihče (Nobody stops me).