Gracia Baur

Infobox musical artist
Name = Gracia


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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Gracia Arabella Baur
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Born = Birth date and age|1982|11|18|mf=y
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Origin = Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Genre = Rock
Occupation = Singer
Years_active = 2003-present
Label = BMG (Hansa) (2003-2004)
Bros Music (2005-present)
URL = [http://graciabaur.tv Official site]

Gracia Arabella Baur (born November 18 1982 in Munich), mostly known as Gracia is a German singer.

Biography

Gracia was born in Munich on November 18, 1982 to Roman and Rosemary Baur and was named after Princess Grace (Gracia Patricia) of Monaco, who had died a few weeks earlier. Gracia's identical twin sister was called Patricia after the princess.

During her teenage years she took vocal lessons to strengthen her voice. To fulfill her dreams of a career as a professional singer, she started recording demos and passed several auditions. In 2000 she even made it through the first round of "Popstars", but was forced out when she forgot the words of her song.

, Nektarios Bamiatzis, and Stephanie Brauckmeyer, releasing the charity single "Don't Close Your Eyes" under the name "4 United".

Gracia was selected to represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Run & Hide", produced and composed by David Brandes. After the German national pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest it was revealed that Brandes had bought thousands of his own CDs to ensure chart placement, a requirement of the ESC (the single had actually hit the top 30 on the German charts). In contrast to the Swiss entry Vanilla Ninja, who had also had their entry produced by Brandes, Gracia opted to continue her association with the newly controversial figure.

However, "Run & Hide", a modern pop-rock song with heavy use of synthesizers, failed to catch the audience's imagination in the Eurovision Song Contest and ignominiously placed last (24th), with just four points awarded from Moldova and Monaco. Gracia, however, was not deterred ("Well, somebody has to finish last" was her laconic comment after the show), and went on with her second solo album "Passion", released in November 2005.

In December 2006 Gracia released the Song "Cos I believe" together with Marvin Broadie under the name "Xantoo". It charted at #39.

Discography

Albums

* "Intoxicated" (2003) #10 GER
* "Passion" (2005)

olo singles

See also

* Eurovision Song Contest 2005
* Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest

External links

* [http://www.Gracia-Baur.tv Official site]