Miss Platnum
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{{Infobox musical artist
|name = Miss Platnum
|image = Miss Platnum.jpg
|caption =
|background = solo_singer
|birth_name = Ruth Maria Renner
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1980|09|27}}
|birth_place =Timișoara, Romania
|death_date =
|origin =
|genre = Pop, Soul, R&B, Hip hop
|associated_acts = Yvonne Catterfeld, Seeed, Peter Fox, Die Fantastischen Vier, Marteria, Taktloss, Haftbefehl, Modeselektor
|occupation = Singer-songwriter
|years_active = 2004–present
|label = Four Music
|website = [http://www.missplatnum.com/ missplatnum.com]
}}
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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 Timișoara, Romania to a Romanian father with German roots and a Romanian mother. At the age of eight her family relocated to West Berlin 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.{{cite web|title=Artist Biography by David Jeffries|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/miss-platnum-mn0001464481/biography|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=28 October 2013}}{{cite web|title=Miss Platnum|url=https://music.apple.com/us/artist/miss-platnum/214242508|publisher=apple.com|access-date=28 October 2013}}
=Works=
After her minorly successful debut album Rock Me which was released on 31 January 2005 on the Berlin-based Indie label Sonar Kollektiv, Platnum released her second album Chefa in May 2007, under her new artist name Miss Platnum. Produced by Die Krauts, it distinguished itself through a mixture of hip-hop, soul, 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 German Singles Chart.{{cite web|title=Miss Platnum – Give Me the Food|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trn1f-IDfro |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/trn1f-IDfro |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|via=YouTube|accessdate=28 October 2013}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web|title=Miss Platnum|url=http://www.last.fm/music/Miss+Platnum|publisher=last.fm|accessdate=28 October 2013}}
Discography
= Albums =
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |
| scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:12em;" | Title
! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:18em;" | Album details ! scope="col" colspan="3" | Peak chart positions |
|---|
| scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | GER {{cite web|url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/suche |title=charts.de|work=Media Control|publisher=charts.de |accessdate=31 July 2012}} ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | AUT ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | SWI |
| scope="row" | Rock Me
|
| — || — || — |
| scope="row" | Chefa
|
| — || — || — |
| scope="row" | The Sweetest Hangover
|
| 27 || 69 || 72 |
| scope="row" | Glück und Benzin
|
| 34 || — || — |
| scope="row" | Ich war hier
| | — || — || — |
= EPs =
- Lila Wolken (2012)
- Hüftgold Berlin (2014)
= Singles =
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |
| scope="col" rowspan="2"| Title
! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Year ! scope="col" colspan="3"| Peak chart positions ! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Album |
|---|
| scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | GER ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | AUT ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | SWI |
| scope="row"| "Give Me the Food"
| rowspan="3"| 2007 | 63 || — || — | rowspan="3"| Chefa |
| scope="row"| "Come Marry Me" (featuring Peter Fox) | 90 || — || — |
| scope="row"| "Mercedez Benz"
| — || — || — |
| scope="row"| "Why Did You Do It?"
| rowspan="1"| 2008 | — || — || — | rowspan="3"| The Sweetest Hangover |
| scope="row"| "She Moved In!"
| rowspan="2"| 2009 | 51 || 72 || — |
| scope="row"| "Babooshka 2009"
| — || — || — |
| scope="row"| "Lila Wolken" (with Marteria & Yasha) | rowspan="2"| 2012 | 1 || 22 || 11 | rowspan="2"| Lila Wolken – EP |
| scope="row"| "Feuer" (with Marteria & Yasha) | 52 || — || — |
| scope="row"| "99 Probleme"
| rowspan="1"| 2013 | — || — || — | rowspan="3"| Glück & Benzin |
| scope="row"| "Letzter Tanz"
| rowspan="2"| 2014 | — || — || — |
| scope="row"| "Glück & Benzin" (featuring Yasha) | — || — || — |
| scope="row"| "MDCHN (Mädchen sind die besseren Jungs)"
| rowspan="2"| 2015 | — || — || — | rowspan="3"| Ich war hier |
| scope="row"| "Kanonen"
| — || — || — |
| scope="row"| "Blockparty" (featuring Taktloss) | rowspan="1"| 2016 | — || — || — |
References
{{reflist}}
External links
{{commons category|Miss Platnum}}
- {{official website|http://www.missplatnum.com/}}
- {{IMDb name|2821667}}
- [https://www.discogs.com/artist/196791-Platnum Miss Platnum] at Discogs.com
- [http://www.fourmusic.com/fourmusic/artists/missplatnum/index.php Four Music artist page (as Miss Platnum)]{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- [http://www.sonarkollektiv.com/artists/Platnum/ Sonar Kollektiv artist page (as Platnum)]
- [http://blog.pasch-net.de/klick/archives/673-10-Fragen-an-Miss-Platnum.html 10 Fragen an Miss Platnum] {{in lang|de}}
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Category:Romanian emigrants to Germany
Category:English-language singers from Germany