1. Debi Nova then collaborated with multiple artists, including the Black Eyed Peas, Mark Ronson and Sean Paul, and wrote songs for Orishas and RBD.
22 Facts About Debi Nova
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Debi Nova has released 5 albums, 3 of which earned her Latin Grammy nominations for Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Album, Best Singer-Songwriter Album, Best Tropical Song, and Best Engineered Album, the latter of which she won.
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Debi Nova holds the title of most streamed Costa Rican artist on Spotify.
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Debi Nova was born on 6 August 1980 in Escazu, San Jose, Costa Rica and is of Polish Jewish descent.
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Debi Nova is a second generation Costa Rican, as her grandparents immigrated to Costa Rica from Poland in the 1930s.
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Debi Nova started playing piano at age four, and played classical music for ten years.
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Debi Nova became a singer-songwriter and a multi-instrumentalist at the age of 14.
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Debi Nova moved to Los Angeles at 17 when she signed her first record deal.
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Debi Nova is a graduate of Los Angeles College of Music.
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Debi Nova started as a backing vocalist for Gandhi, with whom she had the chance to open for Deep Purple.
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Debi Nova has worked with Ricky Martin, with whom she recorded a Spanish version of the song "I Don't Care".
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Debi Nova sang background vocals for Britney Spears in her song "Lace and Leather", from her album Circus.
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Debi Nova was featured in projects by Illa J and Sa-Ra as well as Urban Legend's Tropical Techniques.
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Debi Nova participated in the Colgate MaxWhite Charging Up The Music campaign.
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Debi Nova released her first studio album Luna Nueva in 2010, which featured her single "Drummer Boy".
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Debi Nova was one-third of the group "LR1" for a while, along with Jean Shepherd and Velcro.
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Debi Nova was selected as the official voice of the Central American Games, San Jose 2013, with the song "Arriba Arriba" and was invited to participate in the TEDx Joven Pura Vida conference, where she shared her story, her music and encouraged young people to follow their dreams.
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In 2016, Debi Nova won the first season of Colombia's Version of Dancing with the Stars.
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Debi Nova released her third album Gran Ciudad in 2017, on Sony Music Latin for which she was nominated at the Latin Grammys 2017 in the category "Best Singer-Songwriter Album".
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Debi Nova performed her single "No Nos Sobran Los Domingos" at the 2017 pre-Grammy show.
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Debi Nova was nominated at the 2020 Latin Grammys for Best Tropical Song for her song "Quedate" in collaboration with Pedro Capo and for Best Singer-Songwriter album for "3:33".
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On 24 November 2020, it was announced that Debi Nova was nominated for Best Latin Pop or Urban Album at the 63rd Grammy Awards Ceremony, her first nomination at the awards.