page_title: Paula Seling
section_title: Seling and international collaborations
hierarchical_section_title: Paula Seling / The first step in the world of music / Seling and international collaborations
caption_attribution_description: English: Paula Seling from Paula Seling&#32;and&#32;Ovidiu Cernăuțeanu at a Meet &amp; Greet during the Eurovision Song Contest 2014&#160;Copenhagen. (Help translate this text)
context_page_description: Paula Seling is a Romanian singer, songwriter, record producer, DJ, and television personality. Raised in Baia Mare, she attended Gheorghe Șincai National College and later moved to Bucharest to pursue a career in music.
  She has released more than thirteen albums and over twenty singles, including two top-ten hits in the Romanian Top 100, a minor European hit which entered the charts in Finland and Norway, as well as the UK Singles Chart, and held a good position on Starcount the worldwide chart of popularity.
  Paula is trilingual and speaks, writes and performs in French, English and Romanian; additionally, she performs in Italian. She has also provided the Romanian voice in Cars 2, for Holley Shiftwell. She is an outspoken supporter of personal freedom, individual rights and human rights.
  Paula represented Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, together with Ovidiu Cernăuțeanu, with the song "Playing with Fire". They finished third in the finals. She then participated in Dansez Pentru Tine where she finished third.
  Starting October 2011, Seling was a juror and mentor in the Romanian X Factor. In 2011 she collaborated with Al Bano and Plan D.
context_section_description: The year 2002, was for Seling, an international opportunity indeed: she played herself in the TV series documentary Open House, episode dated  20 February 2002. Also she had a very interesting experience, being a fairy tale character in a story about making a music hit somewhere in the world. Tony Hawks, producer, composer, director and writer wanted to cast a documentary movie on the Discovery Channel, a movie, named "One Hit Wonderland", that reveals the recipe for the success of a song. He picked Paula as a study subject in Romania, they recorded a song, his composition, in his studio from London and then, the city started promoting it.
  The whole story took off and they performed it on Gloria Hunniford's show on Channel 5 in London. Then Paula and Tony went to club Kashmir, famous for many British star debuts, where together with her band Paula performed her songs, and the show was broadcast on the internet. A new award came to Paula's treasury, alongside awards at FIDOF international festivals in Cesme, Turkey; Skopje, Macedonia, Valletta, Malta.
  2003 year brought Seling a management agreement with a French producer. She worked intensely to compose, orchestrate and record an album for the French market. The album which included songs in French and English was recorded in Paris. Unfortunately, the album could not be finished but Paula got to see France, so all was not lost. In the same year, the singer released the most "consistent" album, so far it had 17 songs and it was called "Fara sfârșit" (Endless). On the same album was the song "Time"(La radio se-anunță ploi)/ Time (Rains are announced on the Radio) for which the music video was shot in Venice by another exceptional director – Dragoș Buliga, and it has 2,297,821 views on YouTube, becoming her emblem song. In 2004 she was nominated for MTV Music Awards as the best artist for the same song (Time). In 2005 Paula marries Radu Bucura; and both opened a production studio, UNICORN RECORDS where they aimed to create the best quality music.
  2005 was a year of celebration, cause Paula celebrated 10 years from her debut. Ten years from her first performance at the Golden Stag Festival 1996. They seemed to pass in a moment and looking back, she felt that each second was great. "Every joy, every tear, every song recorded and every moment of comfort and loneliness had its own role." Paula remembers: "I can especially remember what I felt when the entire audience in the Sică Alexandrescu theatre all sang together with me, with my band and the Orchestra, in the anniversary concert that took place on June 1st 2006, remembering with each song, moments of the past 10 years."
  The next year, 2006 was the time for a new album in Paula's opinion. This year ended in a great way, Radu and Paula released a special album called "De sarbatori" /"For Holidays" with traditional Christmas carols and songs that were sacred to Paula.
  2007 came with three of the most important events for Paula's career: opening act for Michael Bolton in Brașov on 7 July and for Beyoncé in Cluj on 22 October. The same year she had the pleasure of meeting Anita Doth, a member of the band 2 Unlimited with whom she sang a duet on the stage of Callatis – a festival in a beautiful seaside resort called Mangalia. "It was an amazing experience, I had the chance to know her better, talk a lot, sing a lot and I realised she is a great and warm person, a special and powerful voice." The interesting fact is that they recorded the song together "If you want it" the English version of "Noapte caldă" which she wrote together with her brother back in 2001.
caption: Paula Seling in Copenhagen for the Eurovision Song Contest
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