Maria Mena，1986年2月19日出生，是一名歌手，代表作品有《White Turns Blue》、《Fragile (Free)》。
Maria Mena母亲是舞台剧作家，父亲是鼓手。这对浪漫而艺术气息浓厚的夫妻甚至连儿女的名字都根据名剧West Side Story西城故事的男女主角而命名Maria和Tony。受到父亲的影响，Maria从小就接触喜爱音乐，父母离婚带给9岁的Maria极大的冲击和心理伤害，13岁搬去和父亲居住的Maria用唱歌和歌词创作当作舒发心灵的治疗，凭借着天生那份罕见的音乐天赋，Maria Mena在自己的音乐创作中即唱又写还演奏,充分展现着其卓越的音乐才华,让人难以置信的是Maria Mena年仅18岁而已。生活中的经历是Maria Mena音乐创作来源，她的音乐歌唱的是那起伏不定的青春情感。Maria Mena的音乐明晰透彻，毫无娇柔之态。"我不想隐藏什么，我希望自己能很坦诚直率地对自己。而且我写自己想听的歌，那些勾起某些情感的歌”
Maria Mena在专辑White Turns Blue（取自Maria Mena一位亲密的朋友写的诗名）里很好地诠释了她的音乐。这张专辑带出了她的12首歌曲，从轻快的流行乐曲，到弥漫暖意的民歌，都述说了Maria Mena心灵各个不同的角落。“音乐是一种情感”，她说，“和感觉有关，无论是快乐的，还是伤心的。我总是不知道怎么用言语向我的朋友和家人表达我的感受，然后我就希望写歌，用我的音乐来表达我的感受。不知道你有没这样的感受：当你哪天的心情很糟糕，或者感觉坏透了，然后你开始尽情地歌唱，过后你会觉得很舒服：一切都会好起来。”White Turns Blue 就是这样一张专辑，充盈着情感的诉说。然而，对于maria来说在乐坛上她还需要成长，毕竟现在的她还是个18岁的孩子。“纵然我知道自己还是一个很普通的人，自己依然去上学。但生活似乎已经在逼赶着我向前。你会发现自己的生活已经不那么样子了。当他们突然在电视上看见我，发现自己身边的朋友突然间出现在电视上，成为一个明星——身边的人和朋友不知道应该用什么态度来对待我。我并没有责怪任何一个人，我要花很多时间去找回自己，我依然象其他女孩子一样，对身边的一些事情感到那么的不确定和恐慌。只是我还必须很好的适应公众眼光。”出生于艺术世家，母亲为一位剧本家，父亲则是一名尼加拉瓜裔的鼓手。她与她的兄弟东尼是以伦纳德·伯恩斯坦的西城故事中的脚色命名的。在玛莉亚·梅娜九岁时，父母离婚。她也因此罹患了进食障碍。在十三岁开始玛莉亚·梅娜开始与父亲同住。她开始以写歌词排解情绪，虽然她并没有将所有故事都写成歌曲，不过其中《My Lullaby》这首歌是在表达她对父母离婚的痛苦。之后她父亲将录制的 Demo 寄给唱片公司，最后新力唱片将梅娜签入旗下。
2002年她在挪威发行了出道单曲《Fragile (Free)》，但并未打进排行榜。之后发行第二张单曲《My Lullaby》，并在挪威单曲榜上获得第五名的成绩。这首歌曲在电台中强力放送，让她迅速窜红并很快的获得她第一张白金唱片。在这之后她在挪威发行首张专辑《Another Phase》并在挪威专辑榜上获得第六名。
2004年7月20日，梅娜发行她第一张国际专辑《White Turns Blue》并登上“Billboard charts Top Heatseekers”冠军，一周后在“Billboard 200”获得102名的成绩。之后《You're the Only One》这首单曲登上全球许多国家的单曲排行榜。这也是她唯一一首登上告示牌排行榜的单曲，另外还在美国“Top 40 Mainstream”中名列25、荷兰“Dutch Top 40”第30名与荷兰“Mega Single Top 100”第19名。同时她也在挪威发行第二张专辑《Mellow》，在挪威排行榜登上第七名。然而专辑中的第二张单曲《Just a Little Bit》并未登上排行榜。
2005年在挪威及一些欧洲国家发行第三张专辑《纯真年代》，接着推出《Miss You Love》和《Just Hold Me》两张单曲。这张专辑在挪威极为成功，并且获得了“Spellemann”三项提名：最佳女歌手、最佳单曲以及最佳音乐录影带。在荷兰，这张专辑于2006年六月发行并打进排行榜82名。之后在排行榜上缓慢上升，直到第二十七周时登上第11名，《Just Hold Me》这张单曲再度在电台强力播放。《Just Hold Me》于2006年五月发行，但并未打进“Dutch Top 40”，而在“Mega Single Top 100”则是第27名。2006年十月，这首歌开始在电台中播放并打进“Dutch Top 40”第26名。在2006年11月初，这首单曲冲进了“Mega Single Top 100”第七名。在乌得勒支和阿姆斯特丹的演唱会门票销售一空。这张专辑在荷兰年终榜上取得第48名，胜过其他著名歌手如红粉佳人的《I'm Not Dead》、妮莉·费塔朵的《解放》和碧昂丝的《B'Day》。《Miss You Love》作为这张专辑的第二主打并进入荷兰“Mega Singles Top 100”的61名。
2007年七月七日她参与位于德国汉堡的Live Earth气候危机演唱会演出。
她最新的单曲《Belly Up》在2008年6月中旬在挪威电台首播。这是她即将推出的新专辑中的首支单曲，预计在9月16日发行。
《Sorry》这首歌曲出现在美国电视节目舞林争霸第三季中，《What's Another Day》也出现在第四季。
凭藉着天生那份罕见的音乐天赋，Maria Mena在自己的音乐创作中即唱又写还演奏,充分展现着其卓越的音乐才华.生活中的经历是Maria Mena音乐创作来源，她的音乐歌唱的是那起伏不定的青春情感。Maria Mena的音乐明晰透彻，毫无娇柔之态。Maria Mena说:"我不想隐藏什么，我希望自己能很坦诚直率地对自己。而且我写自己想听的歌，那些勾起某些情感的歌."
Early life
Maria Mena was born into an artistic family. Her mother is a playwright and her father is a drummer. Both Maria and her brother, Tony, are named after characters from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. Her mother is Norwegian and her father is an American of Afro-Nicaraguan descent.
Her father played in several bands in Oslo, which influenced Mena to write and record her own music. When Mena was nine years old, her parents divorced. She suffered from depression and developed an eating disorder.
When Mena was 13 years old, she moved to live with her father. She sang and wrote lyrics as a form of self-soothing. "My Lullaby", a song from Mena's diary, expresses her pain from her parents' divorce. After pleading with her father to make a demo, he contacted some acquaintances in the music industry to record the demo. Presenting his daughter's demo to several record companies, Sony Music signed Mena to their label.
Career
2002–2007: Early beginnings
In 2002, she released her debut single "Fragile (Free)" in Norway; however, it did not chart there. "My Lullaby" was released as the second single and the song reached number 5 on the Norwegian Singles Chart. It received heavy rotation on NRK P1, P3, P4, Radio 1, and Radio Oslo. The young singer quickly gained fans and soon earned her first platinum record. After the success of "My Lullaby", she released her debut album Another Phase in Norway which reached number 6 on the Norwegian Albums Chart. Mena made an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman to promote her first international album, White Turns Blue, which debuted at the top position on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart a week later and at number 102 on the Billboard 200. She made a breakthrough into the worldwide singles charts that year with "You're the Only One", a single successful in multiple countries. The song was her only single to appear on a Billboard chart, making No. 25 on the U.S. Top 40 Mainstream. "You're the Only One" peaked at No. 30 on the Dutch Top 40 and No. 19 on the Dutch Mega Single Top 100. Two months earlier, in March 2004, Mena had released her second album in Norway. Mellow. Less successful than her 2002 debut, it still managed to peak at No. 7 in Norway. The second single from both albums was "Just a Little Bit", which did not chart anywhere.
2005 saw the release of Apparently Unaffected in Norway and several other European countries, fronted by singles "Miss You Love" and "Just Hold Me". A significant success in Norway, the album has earned her three Spellemann nominations: Best Female Artist, Best Hit, and Best Music Video. In the Netherlands, the album was released in June 2006 and charted at No. 82. It slowly climbed the chart to reach its peak position in its 27th week at No. 11, as "Just Hold Me" was getting airplay again. "Just Hold Me" was released in May 2006, but then did not chart in the official Dutch Top 40, but did chart in the country's physical singles chart, the Mega Single Top 100, at No. 27. In October 2006, the song started getting heavy airplay again and this time it reached the official Dutch Top 40 and peaked at No. 26. In the Mega Single Top 100, it peaked at No. 7 in the beginning of November 2006. Mena performed at sold-out concerts in Utrecht and Amsterdam, following the success of "Just Hold Me". The album was at No. 48 at the Dutch year-end chart, outselling major artists such as Pink's I'm Not Dead, Nelly Furtado's Loose, and Beyoncé Knowles' B'Day. "Miss You Love" was released as the album's second single in the Netherlands and reached No. 61 on the Mega Singles Top 100.
On 7 July 2007, she performed at the German leg of Live Earth in Hamburg.
2008–2014: Cause and Effect, Viktoria, and Weapon in Mind
Having worked on her three first studio albums with Norwegian producer Arvid Solvang, Mena started collaborating with Martin Sjølie in early 2008 on what would become her fourth studio album, Cause and Effect. The album's first single, "Belly Up" had its radio premiere mid-June 2008 on Norwegian radio. Cause and Effect was released on 17 September in Norway. The first international single was "All This Time". The album was internationally released on 26 September 2008. This album garnered her a Spellemann for Best Female Artist.
Mena's song "Sorry" was featured on the third season of US So You Think You Can Dance and "What's Another Day" was featured during the fourth season. She released "All This Time" in the UK on 11 April 2010.
In 2011 Mena recorded her version of "Mitt lille land" (My Little Country) by Ole Paus as part of a project by the Norwegian TV channel TV2. On 23 July, the day after the Norway terrorist attacks and after requests from her Norwegian audience, Mena uploaded her version of the song to the streaming site SoundCloud. It quickly became an anthem in memory of the victims of the attacks. She contributed to the album Mitt lille land, performing one of two versions of the title track (the other was performed by Ole Paus). As of 2011 Mena had sold a total of 700,000 copies of her albums, and half of those copies had been sold in Norway.
Her fifth studio album Viktoria was released on 23 September 2011 and was produced by Martin Sjølie.
Her sixth album Weapon in Mind was released in 2013, becoming her first album to reach number one in Norway. Even though all three singles of the album failed to chart inside top 20 Norway Singles Chart, "Fuck You" and "I Always Liked That" became two of her best selling singles in Norway, both certified 2× Platinum.
2015–present: Growing Pains and They Never Leave Their Wives
Mena released the single "I Don't Wanna See You with Her" on 6 November 2015. Her seventh studio album Growing Pains was released on 4 December 2015.
In March 2020, Mena announced a new album (sometimes recognized as an EP), They Never Leave Their Wives. The album was released on 23 October 2020. Mena released three singles from the album, "Not OK", "Lies (They Never Leave Their Wives)", and "You Live and You Learn".
In October 2020, Mena announced that she will release a new album in March 2021. She described the upcoming album as a sequel to They Never Leave Their Wives, containing songs about a woman who is on her own and then finds love.
Maria Mena，1986年2月19日出生，是一名歌手，代表作品有《White Turns Blue》、《Fragile (Free)》。
Maria Mena母亲是舞台剧作家，父亲是鼓手。这对浪漫而艺术气息浓厚的夫妻甚至连儿女的名字都根据名剧West Side Story西城故事的男女主角而命名Maria和Tony。受到父亲的影响，Maria从小就接触喜爱音乐，父母离婚带给9岁的Maria极大的冲击和心理伤害，13岁搬去和父亲居住的Maria用唱歌和歌词创作当作舒发心灵的治疗，凭借着天生那份罕见的音乐天赋，Maria Mena在自己的音乐创作中即唱又写还演奏,充分展现着其卓越的音乐才华,让人难以置信的是Maria Mena年仅18岁而已。生活中的经历是Maria Mena音乐创作来源，她的音乐歌唱的是那起伏不定的青春情感。Maria Mena的音乐明晰透彻，毫无娇柔之态。"我不想隐藏什么，我希望自己能很坦诚直率地对自己。而且我写自己想听的歌，那些勾起某些情感的歌”
Maria Mena在专辑White Turns Blue（取自Maria Mena一位亲密的朋友写的诗名）里很好地诠释了她的音乐。这张专辑带出了她的12首歌曲，从轻快的流行乐曲，到弥漫暖意的民歌，都述说了Maria Mena心灵各个不同的角落。“音乐是一种情感”，她说，“和感觉有关，无论是快乐的，还是伤心的。我总是不知道怎么用言语向我的朋友和家人表达我的感受，然后我就希望写歌，用我的音乐来表达我的感受。不知道你有没这样的感受：当你哪天的心情很糟糕，或者感觉坏透了，然后你开始尽情地歌唱，过后你会觉得很舒服：一切都会好起来。”White Turns Blue 就是这样一张专辑，充盈着情感的诉说。然而，对于maria来说在乐坛上她还需要成长，毕竟现在的她还是个18岁的孩子。“纵然我知道自己还是一个很普通的人，自己依然去上学。但生活似乎已经在逼赶着我向前。你会发现自己的生活已经不那么样子了。当他们突然在电视上看见我，发现自己身边的朋友突然间出现在电视上，成为一个明星——身边的人和朋友不知道应该用什么态度来对待我。我并没有责怪任何一个人，我要花很多时间去找回自己，我依然象其他女孩子一样，对身边的一些事情感到那么的不确定和恐慌。只是我还必须很好的适应公众眼光。”出生于艺术世家，母亲为一位剧本家，父亲则是一名尼加拉瓜裔的鼓手。她与她的兄弟东尼是以伦纳德·伯恩斯坦的西城故事中的脚色命名的。在玛莉亚·梅娜九岁时，父母离婚。她也因此罹患了进食障碍。在十三岁开始玛莉亚·梅娜开始与父亲同住。她开始以写歌词排解情绪，虽然她并没有将所有故事都写成歌曲，不过其中《My Lullaby》这首歌是在表达她对父母离婚的痛苦。之后她父亲将录制的 Demo 寄给唱片公司，最后新力唱片将梅娜签入旗下。
2002年她在挪威发行了出道单曲《Fragile (Free)》，但并未打进排行榜。之后发行第二张单曲《My Lullaby》，并在挪威单曲榜上获得第五名的成绩。这首歌曲在电台中强力放送，让她迅速窜红并很快的获得她第一张白金唱片。在这之后她在挪威发行首张专辑《Another Phase》并在挪威专辑榜上获得第六名。
2004年7月20日，梅娜发行她第一张国际专辑《White Turns Blue》并登上“Billboard charts Top Heatseekers”冠军，一周后在“Billboard 200”获得102名的成绩。之后《You're the Only One》这首单曲登上全球许多国家的单曲排行榜。这也是她唯一一首登上告示牌排行榜的单曲，另外还在美国“Top 40 Mainstream”中名列25、荷兰“Dutch Top 40”第30名与荷兰“Mega Single Top 100”第19名。同时她也在挪威发行第二张专辑《Mellow》，在挪威排行榜登上第七名。然而专辑中的第二张单曲《Just a Little Bit》并未登上排行榜。
2005年在挪威及一些欧洲国家发行第三张专辑《纯真年代》，接着推出《Miss You Love》和《Just Hold Me》两张单曲。这张专辑在挪威极为成功，并且获得了“Spellemann”三项提名：最佳女歌手、最佳单曲以及最佳音乐录影带。在荷兰，这张专辑于2006年六月发行并打进排行榜82名。之后在排行榜上缓慢上升，直到第二十七周时登上第11名，《Just Hold Me》这张单曲再度在电台强力播放。《Just Hold Me》于2006年五月发行，但并未打进“Dutch Top 40”，而在“Mega Single Top 100”则是第27名。2006年十月，这首歌开始在电台中播放并打进“Dutch Top 40”第26名。在2006年11月初，这首单曲冲进了“Mega Single Top 100”第七名。在乌得勒支和阿姆斯特丹的演唱会门票销售一空。这张专辑在荷兰年终榜上取得第48名，胜过其他著名歌手如红粉佳人的《I'm Not Dead》、妮莉·费塔朵的《解放》和碧昂丝的《B'Day》。《Miss You Love》作为这张专辑的第二主打并进入荷兰“Mega Singles Top 100”的61名。
2007年七月七日她参与位于德国汉堡的Live Earth气候危机演唱会演出。
她最新的单曲《Belly Up》在2008年6月中旬在挪威电台首播。这是她即将推出的新专辑中的首支单曲，预计在9月16日发行。
《Sorry》这首歌曲出现在美国电视节目舞林争霸第三季中，《What's Another Day》也出现在第四季。
凭藉着天生那份罕见的音乐天赋，Maria Mena在自己的音乐创作中即唱又写还演奏,充分展现着其卓越的音乐才华.生活中的经历是Maria Mena音乐创作来源，她的音乐歌唱的是那起伏不定的青春情感。Maria Mena的音乐明晰透彻，毫无娇柔之态。Maria Mena说:"我不想隐藏什么，我希望自己能很坦诚直率地对自己。而且我写自己想听的歌，那些勾起某些情感的歌."
Early life
Maria Mena was born into an artistic family. Her mother is a playwright and her father is a drummer. Both Maria and her brother, Tony, are named after characters from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. Her mother is Norwegian and her father is an American of Afro-Nicaraguan descent.
Her father played in several bands in Oslo, which influenced Mena to write and record her own music. When Mena was nine years old, her parents divorced. She suffered from depression and developed an eating disorder.
When Mena was 13 years old, she moved to live with her father. She sang and wrote lyrics as a form of self-soothing. "My Lullaby", a song from Mena's diary, expresses her pain from her parents' divorce. After pleading with her father to make a demo, he contacted some acquaintances in the music industry to record the demo. Presenting his daughter's demo to several record companies, Sony Music signed Mena to their label.
Career
2002–2007: Early beginnings
In 2002, she released her debut single "Fragile (Free)" in Norway; however, it did not chart there. "My Lullaby" was released as the second single and the song reached number 5 on the Norwegian Singles Chart. It received heavy rotation on NRK P1, P3, P4, Radio 1, and Radio Oslo. The young singer quickly gained fans and soon earned her first platinum record. After the success of "My Lullaby", she released her debut album Another Phase in Norway which reached number 6 on the Norwegian Albums Chart. Mena made an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman to promote her first international album, White Turns Blue, which debuted at the top position on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart a week later and at number 102 on the Billboard 200. She made a breakthrough into the worldwide singles charts that year with "You're the Only One", a single successful in multiple countries. The song was her only single to appear on a Billboard chart, making No. 25 on the U.S. Top 40 Mainstream. "You're the Only One" peaked at No. 30 on the Dutch Top 40 and No. 19 on the Dutch Mega Single Top 100. Two months earlier, in March 2004, Mena had released her second album in Norway. Mellow. Less successful than her 2002 debut, it still managed to peak at No. 7 in Norway. The second single from both albums was "Just a Little Bit", which did not chart anywhere.
2005 saw the release of Apparently Unaffected in Norway and several other European countries, fronted by singles "Miss You Love" and "Just Hold Me". A significant success in Norway, the album has earned her three Spellemann nominations: Best Female Artist, Best Hit, and Best Music Video. In the Netherlands, the album was released in June 2006 and charted at No. 82. It slowly climbed the chart to reach its peak position in its 27th week at No. 11, as "Just Hold Me" was getting airplay again. "Just Hold Me" was released in May 2006, but then did not chart in the official Dutch Top 40, but did chart in the country's physical singles chart, the Mega Single Top 100, at No. 27. In October 2006, the song started getting heavy airplay again and this time it reached the official Dutch Top 40 and peaked at No. 26. In the Mega Single Top 100, it peaked at No. 7 in the beginning of November 2006. Mena performed at sold-out concerts in Utrecht and Amsterdam, following the success of "Just Hold Me". The album was at No. 48 at the Dutch year-end chart, outselling major artists such as Pink's I'm Not Dead, Nelly Furtado's Loose, and Beyoncé Knowles' B'Day. "Miss You Love" was released as the album's second single in the Netherlands and reached No. 61 on the Mega Singles Top 100.
On 7 July 2007, she performed at the German leg of Live Earth in Hamburg.
2008–2014: Cause and Effect, Viktoria, and Weapon in Mind
Having worked on her three first studio albums with Norwegian producer Arvid Solvang, Mena started collaborating with Martin Sjølie in early 2008 on what would become her fourth studio album, Cause and Effect. The album's first single, "Belly Up" had its radio premiere mid-June 2008 on Norwegian radio. Cause and Effect was released on 17 September in Norway. The first international single was "All This Time". The album was internationally released on 26 September 2008. This album garnered her a Spellemann for Best Female Artist.
Mena's song "Sorry" was featured on the third season of US So You Think You Can Dance and "What's Another Day" was featured during the fourth season. She released "All This Time" in the UK on 11 April 2010.
In 2011 Mena recorded her version of "Mitt lille land" (My Little Country) by Ole Paus as part of a project by the Norwegian TV channel TV2. On 23 July, the day after the Norway terrorist attacks and after requests from her Norwegian audience, Mena uploaded her version of the song to the streaming site SoundCloud. It quickly became an anthem in memory of the victims of the attacks. She contributed to the album Mitt lille land, performing one of two versions of the title track (the other was performed by Ole Paus). As of 2011 Mena had sold a total of 700,000 copies of her albums, and half of those copies had been sold in Norway.
Her fifth studio album Viktoria was released on 23 September 2011 and was produced by Martin Sjølie.
Her sixth album Weapon in Mind was released in 2013, becoming her first album to reach number one in Norway. Even though all three singles of the album failed to chart inside top 20 Norway Singles Chart, "Fuck You" and "I Always Liked That" became two of her best selling singles in Norway, both certified 2× Platinum.
2015–present: Growing Pains and They Never Leave Their Wives
Mena released the single "I Don't Wanna See You with Her" on 6 November 2015. Her seventh studio album Growing Pains was released on 4 December 2015.
In March 2020, Mena announced a new album (sometimes recognized as an EP), They Never Leave Their Wives. The album was released on 23 October 2020. Mena released three singles from the album, "Not OK", "Lies (They Never Leave Their Wives)", and "You Live and You Learn".
In October 2020, Mena announced that she will release a new album in March 2021. She described the upcoming album as a sequel to They Never Leave Their Wives, containing songs about a woman who is on her own and then finds love.
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