- Biography
Alexandra Stan released her debut sinlge, “Lollipop (Param Pam Pam)” in late 2009. The song impacted the United States mainstream radios in early 2010, peaking at number-eighteen. Her second release, ‘Mr. Saxobeat”, became her worldwide breakthrough hit, selling almost 1,000,000 copies in less than a year and reaching top five in over twenty countries, such as New Zealand and the United Kingdom, and top 10 in Australia, plus top 30 in Canada and United States. By now, the single has more than 160M streams on Spotify and 450M views on YouTube combined. She released her debut album in August 2011, titled “Saxobeats” through Romanian lbael, MediaPro Music (now part of Universal Music Romania). The album spawned two more hit singles: “Get Back (ASAP)” – that gathered more than 18M stream on Spotify and “Million”, the latter featuring rapper Carlprit. On the 4th of June 2012, Alexandra Stan continued the string of releases with “Lemonade”, a hit which surpassed 22 million views on YouTUbe. Due to the huge success of “Mr. Saxobeat”, Alexandra Stan gained a cult following in Japan where she tours annually, promoting her singles and albums.
Unlocked in the second studio album by Alexandra Stan was released on the 27th of August 2014. To promote Unlocked, the singer embarked on two tours: The Cherry Pop Summer Tour and the Unlocked Tour, in 2014, where she performed in Japan, Mexico, RUssia, or Turkey. Five singles were released to promote the album: “Give Me Your Everything”, “Vanilla Chocolat”, “Thanks For Leaving” that charted in Ukraine, Italy, and Romania, and “Cherry Pop” and “Dance”, that charted on the Billboard Japan Hot 100.
In March 2016, Alexandra released her third studio album, “Alesta”, that debuted at number 34 of the Japanese Oricon Albums Chart. To promote the album, Alexandra embarked on a two-week benue tour in Japan, while appearing in many interviews and scoring media coverages there. First release from “Alesta”, “We Wanna”, is a collaboration with Romanian artsit, Inna and Puerto Rican singer, Mohombi. The trrack has more than 89M views on YouTube and 29< streams on Spotify. The album also features a collaboration with Swedish-Congolese singer, Mohombi on the track “Balans”. Her next hit single, “Ecoute”, gathered 80M views on YouTube; it was then followed by two more singles were released from the album,”9 Lives” and “Boom Pow”.
Mami was Alexandra’s 4th studio album. It was released worldwide on the 25th of April 2018. “Boy Oh Boy”, “Noi doi” and “Mami” were the 3 official singles from the album and Alexandra promoted them with lives performances in Japan, as well as in Europe and Canada. For “Mami”, Alexandra collaborated with several records producers from Switzerland, Sweden, Canada, the United States and Romania, while also being involved in the writing process for most of the songs. Mixing and mastering was handled at Sterling Sound in New York City by Luigi Barone, Narcotic Creation, Caloway the Donuts, Serge Courtois, Rappy Sergio, Thrace Music and Cole Nystorm. Japan-only promotional single release “Favorite Game”, wad featured on the soundtrack of Japanese movie, Miko Girl. Alexandra promoted “Mami” with concert dates in Polan (Sopot Hit Festival), Turkey, Romania, Canada and Japan, from mid-August to early September 2018.
The singer also contributed with guest vocals on Manuel Riva’s track “Miami”, which reached top ten on the US Dance Club Songs chart and top ten on the Romanian and Bulgarian Airplay 100.
On the 1st of July 2019, Alexandra released the reggae inspired song, “I Think I Love It”, followed by “Obsesii”, Alexandra’s second Romanian language single that currently is a top 5 hit on the Romanian Airplay 100. Her 5th studio album is currently in the works, due to be released in the autumn of 2020, as Alexandra enlisted the help of several Romanian and international producers.
