Lenny - Shooting Star

Biography

Lenny was born in Prague on September 2, 1994, named as Lenka Filipová, daughter of czech country-rock star Lenka Filipová. That means, she’s been moving around music from childhood. When she was 4 years old, she started playing the piano, and at the age of 6, she started visiting local music school (where she lasted for almost 10 years).

Simultaneously, she was studying a language school, where she learned a fluent english (which later helped her in her singing career). First, she was singing in school’s choirs, but later she moved to solo singing together with piano.

When Lenny was 16 years old, she was accompanying her mother on her tours around Europe, Australia, USA and Kanada, as a backup pianist. At this age, she also took part in an american international songwriting competition “International Songwriting Competition”, where she with her song “You’re My Everything” reached semi-finals.

After she graduated the language school in 2013, she started to study songwriting on British and Irish Modern Music Institute in London. She finished the studies in 2016 as bachelor. In 2013 she also signed a contract with czech Universal Music, and on the June 24, the same year, she released her first EP called “All My Love” including 4 songs (one of them is a cover on the same-called song by australian band Dallas Frasca). On December 6, she released her second EP, which included 5 songs, from which 2 were covers. In this year, she has also received a nomination for “Discovery of the Year” in a big czech music survey – Český Slavík Mattoni.

The big year for her was 2016, when she on September released her debut album – Hearts. Within it, she made a club tour called Hearts Tour 2016, lasted for a month: September 30 – October 30. Thanks to the big success of her album, she announced a “sequel” to the tour, called Hearts Tour 2017, which started on March 3, 2017 and ended on March 27. With this album, she was nominated for the Apollo Award by czech critics. She was also nominated for The Best Female Singer for a Žebřík Award, by czech magazine Report. And then, she’s won 4 awards in the Anděl Awards 2016 – the most important czech awards, given by Czech popular music Academy. In this year, she has won awards for The Best Female Singer of the Year, The Best Music Video of the Year (song Hell.o), The Best Song of the Year (Hell.o) and The Best Album of the Year (Hearts.)

Except Czech republic of course, she has also noticed a giant success in Italy – mainly with the song Hell.o. Her song was a radio hit here, which got her as a host to the Wind Music Awards in Italy, alongside with for example Imagine Dragons or italian Il Volo.