Fanny Lu
Colombian singer, songwriter, and actress.
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Fanny Lucía Martínez Buenaventura, born 8 February 1973 in Santiago de Cali, Colombia, is a singer, songwriter, and actress. She earned a degree in industrial engineering from the University of the Andes before starting her entertainment career as a hostess for the music magazine Siempre Música. Her debut album Lágrimas Cálidas (2006) brought her fame in Colombia and across Latin America. She is the mother of two children, Mateo and Valentina.
Music career
Fanny Lu's debut album Lágrimas Cálidas spent five weeks at No. 1. Its lead single "No Te Pido Flores" held the top spot for seven weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in Latin America, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, and Mexico; in the U.S. it peaked at No. 16 on Billboard Hot Latin Songs and No. 1 on the Billboard Tropical Songs chart. The second single "Y Si Te Digo" reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart. Her second album Dos debuted at No. 1 in Colombia and was released the following week in the United States and Puerto Rico on 16 December.
The lead single "Tú No Eres Para Mi" was the No. 1 radio song for twelve weeks and peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks in April 2009. In 2010 she recorded the Spanish version of the theme song "Something That I Want" ("Algo Quiero") for the Disney film Tangled. The first single from her third studio album Felicidad y Perpetua (November 2011) was "Fanfarrón", followed by "Ni Loca".
Awards and nominations
Fanny Lu received two Lo Nuestro Award nominations at the ceremony on 21 February 2008, for Female Artist of the Year and Artist of the Year under the Tropical-genre categories; she was again nominated for Female Artist of the Year in the Tropical-genre category in 2009. She earned six Latin Billboard Music Award nominations in 2008, including Tropical Album of the Year and Tropical New Artist Album of the Year for Lágrimas Cálidas, as well as Tropical Airplay Song of the Year and Tropical Airplay New Artist Song of the Year shared by her singles "No Te Pido Flores" and "Y Si Te Digo". She won the award for Tropical Airplay New Artist Song of the Year for "Y Si Te Digo".
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- Wikipedia: Fanny Lu (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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