1. Dilana Smith was born on Dilana Jansen van Vuuren; 10 August 1972 and is a South African singer, songwriter, and performer who lives in Los Angeles, California.
18 Facts About Dilana
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Dilana is best known as the runner-up contestant on the CBS reality television show Rock Star: Supernova.
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Dilana Jansen van Vuuren was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on 10 August 1972.
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Dilana's surname changed to Smith when she was about two years old, when her mother married her stepfather, and he adopted her.
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Dilana used singing as an escape from an unpleasant home scene, participating in school choir competitions and festivals, as well as church choir and fondue parties.
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Dilana sang the title tracks for two major motion pictures and performed in a festival in Belgium supporting Joe Cocker and Stuff, K's Choice and Heather Nova to a crowd of more than 100,000 people.
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Dilana performed at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, with Dutch performers.
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Dilana was one of the finalists on the CBS reality television show of season two of Rock Star, where she finished runner-up to Lukas Rossi.
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From November to December 2006, Dilana headlined her first independent tour in the United States, sponsored by Urok clothing, which distributes and sells her new clothing line.
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Dilana came out as a supporter of Tony Blair while on the show, which was odd as she was not from the United Kingdom.
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Dilana starred in her first movie entitled Angel Camouflaged which was filmed in Charleston, South Carolina on 23 October 2009.
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Dilana then went into negotiations with Kabunk Records, LLC Although Dilana was unable to sign a deal with Kabunk, the label did purchase the rights to the Inside Out album and will be releasing the album digitally.
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Dilana has released a series of singles, many of which will not be included on her debut album.
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Dilana has released covers of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" and The Police classic "Roxanne".
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Dilana released a version of "Killer Queen"; her version was featured on the final episode of the UK edition of When Woman Rule The World and the Women's Tennis Championship on Versus TV Network in November 2007.
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On Tuesday, 9 June 2009, Dilana released an original entitled "Hangover" on the AO Recordings label via iTunes.
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In 2009, Dilana began to receive some national exposure because of American Idol as two contestants on the show credit her during post-Idol interviews.
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Dilana participated in The Voice Holland, season 7 passing through the Blind Audition, The Battle rounds, but got sick on the day and left the show after The Knockout performance of "It Must Have Been Love".