Anja Rupel (born 19 March 1966) is a Slovene pop singer, songwriter, radio announcer, and journalist. Her father, Fedja Rupel, is a flautist and a professor at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, and her uncle is the politician and diplomat

Dimitrij Rupel Dimitrij Rupel (born 7 April 1946) is a Slovenian politician. Early life and education Rupel was born in Ljubljana, in what was then the PR Slovenia, into a bourgeois family of former anti-fascist political emigrants from the Julian March (hi ...

. Rupel has been involved in music since childhood. She played the flute for over ten years. In 1982, she began to perform as lead vocalist with the prominent

synthpop Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s ...

group Videosex, which became very popular in the former

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. The group recorded four albums. Their debut album, ''Videosex 84'' appeared in 1983 and they played with bands such as

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and Otroci Socializma in Belgrade. The group broke up in 1992. Rupel then went on to her solo career and, in 1994 she recorded her first album ''Odpri oči'' (''Open Your Eyes''). For a while, she performed with the internationally prominent industrial/techno group Laibach from

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, Slovenia. In 1988, she sang

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' anthem,

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and was the first Slovene to be featured on

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. She is now recording new album in cooperation with the Slovene musician Rudi Štigel. She also performed in the 1987 film ''

Hudodelci ''The Felons'' () is a 1987 cinema of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavian drama film directed by Franci Slak. It was entered into the 38th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Mario Šelih as Peter Bordon * Anja Rupel as Štefka * Bata Živojinović ...

'' (''The Felons'') directed by

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, and in several other films. On 11 October 2002, she gave birth to a daughter named Luna. She is with a musician and singer Aleš Klinar who was a leader of a

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-pop group Agropop.

Discography

With Videosex

* '' Videosex 84'' (1983) * '' Lacrimae Christi'' (1985) * '' Svet je zopet mlad'' (1987) * ''Arhiv (compilation)'' (1997) * '' Ljubi in sovraži''

Solo

* '' Odpri oči'' ("Open your eyes") (1994) * '' Življenje je kot igra'' ("Life is as a game") * '' Moje sanje'' ("My dreams") * '' Ne ustavi me nihče'' ("Nobody stops me")

External links

Videosex lyrics
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