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Fallulah (born Maria Apetri on February 6, 1985, in Tårnby, Amager, Denmark), is a Danish-Romanian singer-songwriter and musician. Following a short dancing career, she entered the music industry and released her debut album The Black Cat Neighborhood in 2010 which peaked at number three in Denmark and went on to be certified platinum. Fallulah has been compared to Florence + the Machine, Timur Bairam, Marina and the Diamonds and Bat for Lashes. Fallulah grew up in Tårnby, Denmark, and she has a Romanian father and Danish mother. She attended Kalundborg Gymnasium, but spent much of her childhood on dancing tours in the Balkans and Eastern Europe with her performing parents. When she was nine, her father died and the family moved to Jyderup, North West Zealand where Apetri continued to dance. At twenty one, she moved to New York for dance but returned to Denmark to focus on music. Her musical career began in 2009 with her first single As I Lay My Head, which was recognized as P3s Uundgåelige (P3 Unavoidable) by radio station DR P3 as it rose on the Danish Singles Chart. In 2010, her debut, The Black Cat Neighborhood, was released and reached #3. Single Out Of It reached #1 on the Singles Chart. Her second album, Escapism, was released in February 2013 at #2, although no singles charted. With the release of Escapsism in 2013, Fallulah had fulfilled his contract with Sony Music. At the end of January 2015, Fallulah began posting photos on social media that she was in London, and was recording a new album. In March 2015, Fallulah's two previous albums were released internationally through Instant Records, owned by American producer Richard Gottehrer, who was behind The Raveonettes' breakthrough in the United States. On September 4, 2015, the first single, Social Club was released from Fallulah's third album. On October 23, 2015, the single Sorrow Is A Shadow was released. The song is about her father who died of cancer when she was 9 years old. On December 11, 2015, the third single from the album Ghostfriend was released, while it was announced that the title of the new album will be Perfect Tense, and that it will be released February 26, 2016. In addition, cover and track list were published. The album is produced by Liam Howe and published through Instant Records. On January 19, 2016, the fourth single, Perfect Tense was released from the forthcoming album. The song is also the title song from the album. In March 2016, she took her band on a longer Danish tour in Vega, Gimle in Roskilde and Studenterhuset. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.