Following his win, Balovatsky announced his departure from Rap am Mittwoch. His last competition against Master Marv was the most-watched Rap am Mittwoch battle on YouTube, with more than 7.8 million views as of January 2019. He rose to prominence in German underground rap through Rap am Mittwoch, a German battle rap tournament where he participated in a number of battles. Under the pseudonym "Smia One", Balovatsky uploaded his first music video onto YouTube in 2009. He played football for Berliner FC Dynamo. They settled in Alt-Hohenschönhausen, Berlin, where Balovatsky spent his youth. Balovatsky's mother decided to move to Germany in 2001 to find a better life for her son. At a young age Balovatsky and his parents moved to Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine. Vladislav Balovatsky was born on 23 November 1994 in Siberia, Russia to Ukrainian parents, who worked in the petroleum industry. 1.4 2019–present: Bra Music and collaborations with Samraīiography 1994–2014: Early life and Rap am Mittwoch.1.3 2018: Mainstream success and split from Team Kuku.1.1 1994–2014: Early life and Rap am Mittwoch.In an interview published on YouTube, he spoke about his Tilidine dependence and warned about the drug. Outside of music, Balovatsky criticized the German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD), compared himself with Russian president Vladimir Putin and spoke out about social injustice. Balovatsky is the most successful charting German act, with 22 number-one songs in Germany. His fourth studio album, Berlin lebt (2018), peaked at number one in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and the follow-up Allein (2018), debuted at number two on the German album charts. The follow-ups Makarov Complex and Blyat were released in February and September 2017 and peaked in the top 5 of German-speaking Europe. Intent on pursuing a solo career as a rapper, Capital Bra released his first studio album Kuku Bra in January 2016 to minor commercial success in Germany. He started rapping at age 11 and participated at Rap am Mittwoch in 2014, a German battle rap tournament. īorn in a small town in Siberia, Russia and raised in Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine, he and his mother moved to Berlin, Germany in the early 2000s. Bra is the short form of Bratan, the Russian word for brother. Retrieved 15 November 2021.Vladislav Balovatsky ( Ukrainian: Владислав Баловацький born 23 November 1994), known professionally as Capital Bra ( German pronunciation: ) and informally as Capital, Capi and Joker Bra, is a German rapper of Ukrainian and Russian descent. ^ "BRAVO Otto Wahl 2021: Vote für deinen Star! | BRAVO".^ "BRAVO-Otto-Wahl 2020: Vote für deinen Star!| BRAVO".Archived from the original on 21 October 2018. "Lea, wie landet man einen Youtube-Hit?". ^ Deutsch, Ricarda Franke, Sarah (2 April 2016).Archived from the original on 20 September 2020. "LEA alias Lea-Marie Becker privat: So lebt die "Leiser"-Interpretin abseits der Bühne". Singles List of singles, with selected chart positionsĪwards and nominations Results Yearįavourite Musician (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) "-" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. Discography Albums List of albums, with selected chart positions Lea was a participant in the 7th season of Sing meinen Song – Das Tauschkonzert. In September 2019, she released 110, a collaboration with Capital Bra and Samra, which reached the top place in the German charts. In August 2018 she released the song Immer wenn wir uns sehn, written in collaboration with actor Aaron Hilmer for the film Das schönste Mädchen der Welt. It is in English while all of her other songs are written in German. She also wrote Be My Now with Gestört aber GeiL, which was used as the title song of the eighth season of the German version of The Bachelor. Īlso in 2017, a remix of Wohin willst du?, in collaboration with Gestört aber GeiL, reached 11th place in the German single charts, along with 43rd place in the Austrian charts. She also performed at the Early Spring Singer Songwriter Festival in Saalfelden. In 2017 she went on her first tour, along with Frederic Michel (percussion) and Hannes Porombka (guitar and synthesizer). Many of her songs are internal monologues, in which she asks herself questions that often remain unanswered. Her songs describe themes of love, friendship, and loneliness. In it she handled her first relationship and the feeling of not knowing where home is. Her version of Hildegard Knef's So hat alles seinen Sinn was included in the compilation album Für Hilde in 2015, leading to the record label Four Music publishing her debut album Vakuum in 2016. She studied music and special education in Hannover. Her song Wo ist die Liebe hin was viewed more than 2.7 million times. When she was 15, she began releasing videos on YouTube, under her first name Lea-Marie. Lea is the daughter of a music therapist.