Leony

Leony was born Leonie Burger on June 25, 1997 in Chammünster and is a German pop singer. pop singer and songwriter.

Together with Julian Vogl and Maximillian Böhle, she took part in the RTL show Rising Star in 2014 under the band name Unknown Passenger. In the final, they received 92.77% of viewer votes for their version of Stay. During the show, they met their future manager Nik Hafermann. The band played a few gigs in smaller clubs, but then disbanded. Since then, Leony has been on the road as a solo artist.

In 2016, she signed a contract with Sony Music in Australia. She then completed a vocal coaching course. She wrote her first songs in Sweden. In 2017, she released her first single “Surrender”. The song was used in a commercial for an underwear collection by Sylvie Meis. The single “Boots” followed in 2018 and “More Than Friends” in 2019.

She then presented herself with a new team. Vitali Zestovskih and Mark Becker became her new managers and producers. Together with the DJ duo Vize and Sam Feldt, she released the single “Far Away from Home”. Her breakthrough came in July 2020 with a reinterpretation of the Modern Talking song “Brother Louie” and her single “Remedy”, a collaboration with Vize, the Kazakh artist Imanbek and Dieter Bohlen. In 2022, she was the musical godmother for Emilia and her song Outside and Inside on the TV show “Dein Song”.

In 2022 and 2023, Leony was a guest on the program “The Giovanni Zarrella Show”hosted by Giovanni Zarrella.

In the 20th season, she was a jury member of the casting show “DSDS – Deutschland sucht den Superstar” alongside Dieter Bohlen, Pietro Lombardi and Katja Krasavice. She wrote the final songs for the last contestants, two of which made it into the official charts in the DACH region.

Leony has together with Felix Jaehn released the songs “Waking Up” and “By Your Side”. Boris Brejcha released the single “Miracle” together with Leony in February 2024. Leony sings the official song for the European Football Championship 2024 “Fire” together with the Italian electro formation Meduza and the American band One Republic.

TV

Leony took part in the TV show “Schlag den Star” in January 2024. Her opponent was model and GNTM winner Stefanie Giesinger. Malou Lovis Kreyelkamp took part in the show as a singer.

Studio albums

• 2023 Somewhere in Between

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