Miss Platnum (born Ruth Maria Renner; 27 September 1980), formerly known as Platnum, is a Romanian-German singer, songwriter and musician, currently signed to Virgin Records Germany.

Biography

Early life

Platnum was born in

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to a Romanian father with German roots and a Romanian mother. At the age of eight her family relocated to

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where she went to school in Berlin-Lichterfelde. Later on she took lessons in singing with ''Jocelyn B. Smith'' and worked as a background singer for Moabeat.

Works

After her minorly successful debut album '' Rock Me'' which was released on 31 January 2005 on the

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-based

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''Sonar Kollektiv'', Platnum released her second album ''Chefa'' in May 2007, under her new

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''Miss Platnum''. Produced by ''Die Krauts'', it distinguished itself through a mixture of

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, R&B, pop and Romanian Musical elements. Its lead single, "Give Me the Food" reached the top 20 of the Romanian Singles Chart, and debuted at No. 63 on the

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Discography

Albums

EPs

* ''Lila Wolken'' (2012) * ''Hüftgold Berlin'' (2014)

Singles

References

External links

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Miss Platnum
at Discogs.com
Four Music artist page (as ''Miss Platnum'')

Sonar Kollektiv artist page (as ''Platnum'')

{{DEFAULTSORT:Platnum, Miss 1980 births Living people German soul singers Romanian emigrants to Germany English-language singers from Germany Sonar Kollektiv artists 21st-century German women singers