Edita Abdieski

Abdieski is the eldest child born to a Macedonian Albanian father and a Montenegrin Albanian mother.{{cite web|title=Soulstimme will auf den Gurten |work=St. Galler Tagblatt |url=http://www.tagblatt.ch/aktuell/kultur/kultur/Soulstimme-will-auf-den-Gurten;art624,1635570 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121201013446/http://www.tagblatt.ch/aktuell/kultur/kultur/Soulstimme-will-auf-den-Gurten;art624,1635570 |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 1, 2012 |date=November 5, 2010 |accessdate=November 10, 2010 }} Raised in Bern alongside three younger siblings, she spent much of her childhood in the Bern borough of Bümpliz-Oberbottigen, where she was enrolled at primary and secondary school.{{cite web|first=Ane|last=Hebeisen|title=Pop-Olymp oder RTL 2?|work=Der Bund|publisher=DerBund.ch|url=http://www.derbund.ch/bern/PopOlymp-oder-RTL-2/story/24659137|date=November 10, 2010|accessdate=November 10, 2010}} Her father died of cancer in 1992.{{cite web|first=Maja|last=Zivadinovic|title=Schulden, Streit – Versöhnung mit Mama|work=Blick|url=http://www.blick.ch/unterhaltung/tv/schulden-streit-versoehnung-mit-mama-160296|date=November 9, 2010|accessdate=November 10, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101111092500/http://www.blick.ch/unterhaltung/tv/schulden-streit-versoehnung-mit-mama-160296|archive-date=November 11, 2010|url-status=dead}} At eleven, Abdieski became part of her first school band and by the age of thirteen, she began writing songs. After leaving school, she was trained as qualified office employee, but as she hoped to embark on a professional singing career, Abdieski enrolled at the Swiss Musical Academy in Bern – much against the wishes of her mother, who was sceptical about her daughter's ambition, prompting Abdieski to leave home and move into a girls' flat-sharing community in 2002. To fund her academical training, she was forced to take four side jobs at times.{{cite web|first=Stefanie|last=Christ|title=Edita Abdieski: "Ich war nie ein Fan von Castingshows"|work=Berner Zeitung|url=http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/pop-und-jazz/Edita--Abdieski-Ich-war-nie-ein-Fan-von-Castingshows/story/19791896|date=October 29, 2010|accessdate=November 10, 2010}}

In 2002, a producer asked Abdieski and school friend Vanessa Tancredi to collaborate on a mundart album, a collection of songs in Swiss German dialect. Barely trained in mundart singing, Abdieski even so accepted the offer to record a full-length album, and during the following two years, the pair worked with production duo Thomas Fässler and Ben Mühlethaler on what would eventually become the debut album of Vanessædita.{{cite web|title=Interview mit Vanessædita |work=Hung Medien |publisher=Swisscharts.com |url=http://www.hitparade.ch/interview.asp?id=38 |date=March 19, 2006 |accessdate=November 10, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100324204110/http://hitparade.ch/interview.asp?id=38 |archivedate=March 24, 2010 }}

Meanwhile, Abdieski was hired as a backing vocalist for the Swiss pop–rock band Lunik and worked with musician Santiago Cortés on his debut album Welcome to My Airline (2005). The album's leading single, "Don't Leave Me," sung and co-written by Abdieski, reached number forty on the Swiss Singles Chart.{{cite web|title=SANTIAGO CORTÉS – DON'T LEAVE ME (SONG) |work=Hung Medien |publisher=Swisscharts.com |url=http://swisscharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Santiago+Cort%E9s&titel=Don%27t+Leave+Me&cat=s |accessdate=November 12, 2010 |df= }} Still with Vanessædita, Abdieski was cast in the leading role of Kimberly in the musical Dance Me! – The Streetdance Musical in fall 2005. A same-titled album, on which she appeared along with her ensemble, was released in January 2006 but failed to chart.{{cite web|title=DanceMe Ensemble – Dance Me – The Streetdance Musical |publisher=Amazon.com |url=https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B002OVRG0A/ref=s9_simh_gw_p340_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1JX33Q40ARTTYYHARWMG&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=463375173&pf_rd_i=301128 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130210134743/http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B002OVRG0A/ref=s9_simh_gw_p340_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1JX33Q40ARTTYYHARWMG&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=463375173&pf_rd_i=301128 |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 10, 2013 |accessdate=November 12, 2010 }}

After Vanessædita's contract signing with Muve Recordings, their album Z'Debü ("The Debut") was finally released in Switzerland in March 2006. Although its first single "Wenn ig nume wüsst" entered the top fifty of the Swiss Singles Chart, the pop soul–influenced album underperformed commercially, only reaching number eighty-two on the Swiss Albums Chart.{{cite web|title=Discography Vanessædita |work=Hung Medien |publisher=Swisscharts.com |url=http://swisscharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Vanessa+Editaaccessdate=2010-11-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613104931/http://swisscharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Vanessa%2BEditaaccessdate%3D2010-11-10 |archivedate=June 13, 2011 }} In 2007, Abdieski and Tancredi disbanded amicably, citing musical differences.{{cite web|title=Die vergessene Ex-Partnerin von Edita Abdieski|work=Basler Zeitung|publisher=BazOnline.ch|url=http://bazonline.ch/kultur/pop-und-jazz/Die-vergessene-ExPartnerin-von-Edita-Abdieski/story/21601753|date=November 11, 2010|accessdate=November 11, 2010}} Abdieski later stated, that after one album, she had become aware that mundart singing was "not [her] thing."

Abdieski auditioned for the debut series of X Factor in 2010, singing Joss Stone's "Tell Me 'Bout It". She was mentored by Till Brönner and was announced the winner on 9 November 2010, winning a record deal with Sony Music.{{cite web|agency=Deutsche Presse-Agentur|title=Edita Abdieski gewinnt Castingshow X Factor|work=Focus|publisher=Focus.de|url=http://www.focus.de/kultur/diverses/medien-edita-abdieski-gewinnt-castingshow-x-factor_aid_570541.html|date=November 10, 2010|accessdate=November 10, 2010|archive-date=August 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819170255/https://www.focus.de/kultur/diverses/medien-edita-abdieski-gewinnt-castingshow-x-factor_aid_570541.html|url-status=dead}}

In November and December 2010, Edita was recording her debut studio album which will be called One. The record will be released in March 2011.{{update after|2011|03|31}} It will include her top ten hit "I've Come to Life" and her 2nd single "The Key" which was written by Jörgen Elofsson who has also written songs for Celine Dion Britney Spears and Il Divo. Another highlight will be a feature with Latin star Ricky Martin. The track is called "The Best Thing About Me Is You" and features writing from another Swedish heavyweight, Andreas Carlsson. Keeping up the Scandinavian presence are Norwegian production/songwriting teams Dsign Music and Tracksville ("When The Music Is Over"), as well as writers Mads Hauge ("Another Universe") and Torgeir Bjordal ("I Don't Know"). In January Edita won the DIVA Award in the category "Talent of the Year". Abdieski shot the video for her single "The Key" in Teneriffa. On 25 January 2011 it was confirmed that another track on One will be called "Give A Little Love, Get A Little Love". The song was written by Ben Cullum, Jamie Cullum's brother.

In June 2011, Edita was on her first Club Tour in four German and two Swiss cities. She presented two new songs called "Done With You" and "Really Love Me", which she wrote by herself. The two songs are from her expected upcoming second studio album.

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• X Factor (Germany season 1)

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