Alice Edun, known professionally as Edun, is a Nigerian-Russian singer of

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and gospel music. She lives in Milan, Italy and is signed to

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label Off-Limits, and licensed to Robbins Entertainment in the United States.

Background

Edun was born in St. Petersburg to a Nigerian father and Russian mother She studied in Nigeria and graduated from high school in 1993. Edun started singing as a youngster in African gospel choirs. When she moved to Italy, she sang gospel from 1998 onwards and took part in the Milan Gospel Festival in 2003. While all this was happening, Edun was also experimenting with R&B, soul, funk and jazz styles and performed regularly inside and outside Italy. In 2004, Edun was chosen by Grammy Award-winning, DJ/Producer Benny Benassi to perform as a vocalists for his "Benny Wants You" appeal program. In 2005, Edun made her first recording debut as the featured vocalist on the track "Who's Knockin?" by FB (also known as Ferry Corsten and Benny Benassi), released by Dance Therapy, Holland. That same year she also made her solo debut with "Put 'Em Up", a track written by Sannie Carlson and produced by Igor Farvetto. "Put 'Em Up" ended up becoming a sleeper Dance anthem globally two years later, especially in the United States, as her biggest breakthrough hit, peaking at number 2 in the Hot Dance Airplay chart of ''

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''′s August 25, 2007 issue. "Put 'Em Up" is a featured song on the

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and arcade music game ''

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''. In August 2010, Edun released a follow-up called "My Love Is Here For You." According to Edun, "It's a dance-pop love song, the kind that relates to everyone who is in love with someone but the other is afraid to love you back." The single was released globably through

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. Edun also collaborated with new producers and songwriters. She recorded and released "Survive" with Oscar Salguero via Blanco y Negro in Spain and Andorfine Records in Germany. Alice also recently completed new songs with songwriter Stephen Leuenberger from Switzerland.

References

External links

Official websiteEdun
at MySpace
Edun's
Facebook page
Edun discography at e.discogs
{{DEFAULTSORT:Edun, Alice Living people Singers from Saint Petersburg Italian dance musicians Italian women singers Russian dance musicians Russian women singers Italian people of Nigerian descent Italian people of Russian descent Russian people of Nigerian descent Russian people of Yoruba descent Russian emigrants to Italy Robbins Entertainment artists Year of birth missing (living people) Yoruba women musicians