Luis Felber
{{short description|British musician (born 1986)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2012}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Luis Felber
| birth_name = Luis Delfin Attawalpa Saul Felber
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1986|06|09|df=y}}
| birth_place = Winchester, Hampshire, England
| occupation = Musician
| spouse = {{marriage|Lena Dunham|2021}}
}}
Luis Delfin Attawalpa Saul Felber (born 9 June 1986){{Cite web|date=27 September 2021|title=Lena Dunham Marries Musician Luis Felber|url=https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1303904/lena-dunham-marries-musician-luis-felber|access-date=30 September 2021|website=E! Online}} is a British musician.
Born in Winchester, England, to a Peruvian mother and a British father, Felber spent his earliest years in Peru and Chile before moving back to Britain at the age of seven.{{Cite news|last=Picton-James|first=Rhiannon|date=27 September 2021|title=Luis Felber Has Never Seen ‘Girls’|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/style/luis-felber-lena-dunham.html|access-date=30 September 2021|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|title=On the Rise: Attawalpa|url= https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/on-the-rise-attawalpa|access-date=30 September 2021|website=The Line of Best Fit|language=en}} Felber's father is Jewish.{{Cite web|date=29 September 2021|title=Inside Lena Dunham’s Whimsical, Whirlwind London Wedding|url=https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/lena-dunham-luis-felber-wedding|access-date=30 September 2021|website=Vogue|language=en-US}} Felber began pursuing a career in music, playing guitar with several different bands at age 17.
Career
He is one of the founders of the label and club night Young Turks.{{Cite web|title=Attawalpa: London's Own Peruvian King|url=https://www.yuckmagazine.co.uk/features/attawalpa-londons-peruvian-king|access-date=30 September 2021|website=Yuck Magazine|language=en-US}} Felber signed to Luv Luv Luv and performed in a duo called Shuga and was also a member of party band Turbogeist.
Felber used to play with Jamie T and Ben Bones. Felber wrote a song with Mick Jagger that was later featured on Vinyl, the 2016 series created by Jagger himself, along with Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter.
In 2020, Felber began recording and performing solo under the name Attawalpa—which is his middle name, after the last Incan monarch Atahualpa (died 1533). He released the debut EP Spells.
In 2021, the album Patterns was released and features five songs released throughout the pandemic. Each comes with its own video. Lena Dunham directed the video for song "Tucked in Tight" and it was filmed on an iPhone in London and the English countryside.
Dunham and Felber worked on the soundtrack for the film Catherine Called Birdy, and are writing a script loosely based on their relationship.
Personal life
After a mutual friend set them up on a blind date, Felber began dating writer and actress Lena Dunham in January 2021.{{Cite web|title=Lena Dunham marries Luis Felber with bridesmaids Taylor Swift, Tommy Dorfman by her side|url=https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/lena-dunham-marries-luis-felber-200611026.html|access-date=30 September 2021|website=ca.movies.yahoo.com|language=en-CA}} In September 2021, Felber married Dunham in a Jewish ceremony in England, wearing a custom blue suede suit designed by Emily Bode.