Namika | |
Birth Name: | Hanan Hamdi |
Alias: | Hän Violett |
Origin: | Frankfurt, Germany |
Birth Date: | 1991 8, df=yes[1] |
Genre: | Hip hop, jazz, pop |
Occupation: | Singer, rapper |
Years Active: | 2013–present |
Label: | Sony Music Entertainment |
Namika (given name, Hanan Hamdi, Arabic: حنان حمدي), also known by the stage name Hän Violett, is a German singer and rapper.
Namika grew up in Frankfurt. Her grandparents are Moroccan Berbers, from the coastal city of Nador.[2]
She released her debut album, Nador, on 21 July 2015. The album includes her first single, 'Lieblingsmensch'. By the end of July 2015 the album had reached number thirteen in the German album charts. The single Lieblingsmensch debuted at number twenty-seven in the German single charts and climbed to number one after eight weeks.
Namika has published seven music videos,[3] including the song Na-Mi-Ka, which is from her EP Hellwach. Namika entered a specially edited version of her song Hellwach (English: Wide Awake) in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2015. The track was produced by the German producer team Beatgees, who has also produced for Lena, Curse, and Ann Sophie. She represented the State of Hessen. By the end of the competition on 29 August 2015 the song had reached seventh place. Recently in 2018 she performed ' Je ne parle pas français' whose remix was featuring Black M. The song reached number one in the German charts. On 1 July, she released her second studio album "Que Walou".
Namika performed three songs as a competitor in the 2015 New Music Award competition.
Title | Details | Peak chart positions | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
GER | AUT | SWI | |||
Nador |
| 13 | 58 | 36 | |
Que Walou |
| 12 | 46 | 29 |
Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||
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GER | AUT | SWI | |||||
"Lieblingsmensch" | 2015 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
| Nador | |
"Hellwach" | 62 | — | — | ||||
"Kompliziert" | 2016 | 60 | — | — | |||
"Je ne parle pas français (Beatgees Remix)" (featuring Black M) | 2018 | 1 | 16 [4] | 7 |
| Que Walou |
Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
GER [5] | |||||
"Lass sie tanzen" (Ali As featuring Namika) | 2016 | 37 |
| Euphoria | |
"Traum" (Ufo361 featuring Namika) | 2017 | — | Ich bin 3 Berliner | ||
"Holidays Are Coming" (The Kingdom Choir featuring Camélia Jordana & Namika) | 2018 | 97 |