Kanita | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Kanita Suma |
| Born | 26 July 2001 Skopje, Macedonia |
| Genres | Pop[1] |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Years active | 2013–present |
Kanita Suma (born 26 July 2001), also known mononymously as Kanita, is an Albanian singer from North Macedonia.
Life and career
Kanita Suma was born on 26 July 2001 into an Albanian family in the city of Skopje, Macedonia.[1][2] Suma rose to prominence as she auditioned for the second season of X Factor Albania in 2012 finishing in the fourth place.[3] She continued her musical career and participated in Kënga Magjike on two occasions, in 2014 and 2018.[4][5] In October 2019, the Albanian broadcaster, Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH), announced that Suma would compete in the 58th edition of Festivali i Këngës, the country's national selection competition for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, with the song "Ankth".[6][7] In the semi-finals, she failed to qualify for the grand final of Festivali i Këngës. In January 2020, "Fllad" was released and went on to reach number seventy eight in Albania.[8]
Discography
Singles
As lead artist
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions |
Album | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALB [9] |
CIS [10] | |||||||||
| "Ëndrra ime" | 2013 | * | — | Non-album single | ||||||
| "Mia Vita" | — | |||||||||
| "Digjem për ty" (with Leonora Poloska) |
2014 | — | ||||||||
| "Young and Reckless" | 2015 | — | ||||||||
| "Champion" (with Castor) |
2016 | — | — | |||||||
| "S'e di pse" | — | — | ||||||||
| "Don't Let Me Go" | 4 | — | ||||||||
| "Don't Let Me Go (Gon Haziri Remix)" | 2017 | 36 | 94 | |||||||
| "They Said" | 2018 | 48 | — | |||||||
| "S'jemi ne" | 2018 | — | — | |||||||
| "Stranger" | 2019 | 84 | — | |||||||
| "Ankth" | — | — | ||||||||
| "Fllad" | 2020 | 78 | — | |||||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||||
As featured artist
| Title | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "Jale" (Yaar featuring Kanita) |
2019 | Non-album singles |
| "Hala" (Valza featuring Kanita) |
2020 |
References
- 1 2 "Kanita Biografia" (in Albanian). TeksteShqip. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- ↑ "Kanita #Bio" (in Albanian). Top Channel. Archived from the original on 30 October 2020. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- ↑ "Kanita: X Factor më ka dhënë shumë" (in Albanian). Telegrafi. 8 March 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- ↑ "Befasoi jurinë e "X Factor Albania" në moshë fare të vogël, rikthehet pas shumë vitesh në 'Kënga Magjike', Kanita" (in Albanian). Telegrafi. 9 October 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- ↑ "Kanita Suma risjell të ripërpunuar këngën 'S'jemi ne'" (in Albanian). Telegrafi. 10 June 2019. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- ↑ "Festivali i 58-të i Këngës në RTSH, juria përzgjedh 20 këngëtarët pjesëmarrës" (in Albanian). Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH). 24 October 2019. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ↑ "It's Arilena Ara for Albania!". European Broadcasting Union (EBU). 23 December 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
- ↑ "Kanita publikon këngën dhe klipin e ri 'Fllad'" (in Albanian). Sinjali. 23 January 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
- ↑ Note: "The Top List" are the charts conducted by Top Channel since December 2015.
For peak positions in Albania:- For "Don't Let Me Go": "The Top List – 25/12/2016" (in Albanian). Top Channel. 25 December 2016. Archived from the original on 3 February 2020. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- For "Don't Let Me Go (Gon Haziri Remix)": "The Top List – 04/06/2017" (in Albanian). Top Channel. 4 June 2017. Archived from the original on 18 June 2017. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- For "They Said": "The Top List – 18/03/2018" (in Albanian). Top Channel. 18 March 2018. Archived from the original on 19 November 2020. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- For "Stranger": "The Top List – 28/04/2019" (in Albanian). Top Channel. 28 April 2019. Archived from the original on 13 February 2021. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- For "Fllad": "The Top List – 09/02/2020" (in Albanian). Top Channel. 9 February 2020. Archived from the original on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- ↑ "Kanita – Listen All Songs". Tophit. Retrieved 27 April 2021. Note: The 'Peak Position On Top Radio Hits' column is to be taken into consideration.
