Laura Kamhuber
Kamhuber in 2016
Background information
Born (1999-08-08) 8 August 1999[1]
Austria
OriginAmaliendorf[1]
Genresvolksmusik, schlager, pop
Websitelaurakamhuber.at

Laura Kamhuber (born 8 August 1999) is an Austrian singer. Her performance of Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You", taped when she was a 13-year-old on the 2013 German edition of The Voice Kids, is the most watched YouTube video by an Austrian artist. She has recorded three albums.

Biography

Kamhuber has always loved to sing,[2] and made her first public singing appearance at the age of three at her great-grandmother's nursing home.[3]

From the age of ten she studied vocals at the Heidenreichstein music school.[2] While she was still ten, she participated in the casting for the NÖN Talent Contest in April 2010. "That was my first stage performance," she recalls, "and I was very nervous."[4] She finished second.[3] Later in 2010, having turned eleven, she participated in the Austrian annual televised children's talent show titled Kiddy Contest[5] where she reached the finals[6] and finished in third place.[7] From then on, she regularly took singing lessons and often sang at small to medium size concerts.[5]

At a fundraiser in 2012, she sang a folk song for the first time and discovered she loved the genre.[5] The same year she made the semifinals in another Austrian talent show, Die große Chance on ORF.[7][8] At 13 she was the youngest singer in the contest.[8]

External videos
video icon Laura Kamhuber sings "I Will Always Love You" during her blind audition for The Voice Kids Germany in 2013 (YouTube)

In 2013, she participated in the German edition of The Voice Kids, where she made it to the battles (or the knockout rounds) stage.[5][9] Her performance of Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" in the blind audition has garnered over 210 million views (as of February 2021) on YouTube,[10] and is the most watched YouTube video by an Austrian artist.[5] (All three judges turned and she chose to be on Lena Meyer-Landrut's team.)[11][12]

Thanks to The Voice Kids she was noticed by people in the music industry and had a production team formed around her. Uwe Altenried (composer) and Peter and Gaby Wessely (lyricists) wrote the first song—"Wer Ordnung hält (...ist nur zu faul zum Suchen)"—just for her. That was followed by a record contract with Tyrolis Music.[5] In the same year, Andy Borg invited her to sing her song on the Austrian folk music television show Musikantenstadl.

On 2 January 2014, she released her debut album Wie guat, dass i a Madl bin,[13] which contains 12 folk songs.[2]

In the 2015/2016 season, with the song "Stay Tonight", she made the shortlist of the Facebook (online) selection for the wildcard place in the Austrian national selection final for the Eurovision Song Contest.[14]

In December 2016 she released her second single, titled "Wunder".[5]

She was named youth ambassador for the UNESCO Club Austria's Gold Ribbon Campaign "Warriors and Angels" in early 2017.[5][15][16] In late 2017 she released her third album Träume, produced by David Ritt for Ritt Sound.[17][18][19] The album contains various styles of songs from pop music to country to soulful ballads.[20]

Discography

Albums

  • 2014: Wie guat, dass i a Madl bin
  • 2016: Ich glaube noch an Wunder (EP containing 5 songs)
  • 2017: Träume

Singles

  • 2010: "Ich bleib lieber klein" (German-language cover of Cheryl Cole's "Fight for This Love"; also included on the various artists compilation album Kiddy Contest Vol. 16)
  • 2013: "Wer Ordnung hält (...ist nur zu faul zum Suchen)"
  • 2016: "Stay Tonight"
  • 2017: "Right Beside Me" (with Brofaction)

References

  1. 1 2 "Laura Kamhuber". Kiddy Contest. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 "Gesungen hat Laura immer schon gerne". Tips. 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Der NÖ-Promi der Woche – Laura Kamhuber: Junge Frau mit starken Nerven". Noen.at. 23 January 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  4. ↑ "NÖN-Talenteshow: Laura Kamhuber: "Einmalige Chance"". Noen.at. 17 March 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Laura Kamhuber träumt nicht nur". FM1Today. 29 October 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  6. ↑ "NÖN-Talent bei Kiddy Contest – noen.at". 4 October 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  7. 1 2 "Die große Chance für Laura Kamhuber". Meinbezirk.at. 11 September 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  8. 1 2 "Die grosse Chance – Süße Tanzmäuse sind weiter". News.at. 20 October 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  9. ↑ "Voice Kids: Aus für Laura Kamhuber". Noen.at. 1 May 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  10. ↑ "Whitney Houston – I will Always Love You (Laura) | The Voice Kids 2013 | Blind Audition | SAT.1 - YouTube". 4 April 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  11. ↑ "Laura Beautifully Sings 'I Will Always Love You' During Her Audition". SF Globe. 26 December 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  12. ↑ "Kids Singing Country – Dolly Parton 'I Will Always Love You'". Taste of country. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  13. ↑ "Erste CD von Laura Kamhuber – "Wie guat, dass i a Madl bin"" (in German). Meinbezirk.at. 25 December 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  14. ↑ "61. Song Contest: Kandidaten des österreichischen Vorentscheids". Noen.at. 13 January 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  15. ↑ "Amaliendorf – UNESCO-Ehre für Laura Kamhuber". Noen.at. 3 February 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  16. ↑ "Gold Ribbon Campaign Austria "Warriors and Angels"". WCD. 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  17. ↑ "Amaliendorf - Kamhuber: Vom Kinderstar zur „normalen" 18-Jährigen". Noen.at. 24 November 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  18. ↑ "Träume". Ritt Sound. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  19. ↑ "Laura Kamhuber releases her new album...and enters the race for the 2018 San Marino Eurovision candidate". ESC Covers. 5 November 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  20. ↑ "Laura Kamhuber mit neuem Video". Meinbezirk.at. 24 August 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2018.

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