Hannah Mancini
Hannah Leah Mancini, also known as Stella Mercury or simply Hannah, is an American singer and songwriter who works and lives in Slovenia. She has been heavily involved in dance, nu disco and electronic scenes there and worked with artists and producers in these genres. Hannah's first music industry experiences had her on multiple soundtracks for Disney films and the opportunity to collaborate with Grammy winning producer, Larry Klein. She also performed at Radio City Music Hall, Universal Amphitheatre and on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Mancini was the Slovenia in the [Eurovision Song Contest 2013|Slovene representative] in the Eurovision [Song Contest 2013] in Malmö, Sweden and co-wrote the Slovene entry, "Round and Round" in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Career
2009–2013: Early career
Being a singer and songwriter, she's lent her efforts and collaborated on projects with Grammy winning producer, Larry Klein, top international DJ, Umek, DJ/Producer Sare Havlicek, one single from Sare's current album and from the Russian electronic band, D-Pulse, their 2010 release,. She has also performed as the front singer in the nationally successful band, XEQUTIFZ for the last 4 years, which has yielded 3 radio hits, She recorded XEQUTIFZ songs in both Slovene and English versions.. The music video released for the single, And We Danced, reached the #3 position on MTV Adria. Hannah also has current releases with Beltek and David Puentez, Kosta Radman and Vanillaz with their single the single was placed on a popular house compilation by top house label, Kontor Records. More recently, Hannah developed the moniker, Stella Mercury, for more underground, less commercial dance releases. The first single released under Stella Mercury is a collaboration with Mike Vale which was released in May 2013 and stayed on the Beatport house chart Top 10 for 3 months.
2013–present: Eurovision Song Contest
Hannah was asked to represent Slovenia in Eurovision 2013. Before that, together with Sylvain and Mike Vale, she took part in the Slovenian national final for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Ti si tisti. It did not win the contest, but became a national hit. She was internally selected between several other singers/songs to represent Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö with the song "Straight Into Love". On the 14th of May, 2013, Hannah placed 16th in Semi-final 1 with 8 points. The song, an EDM track, was later remixed by DJ/producer Denis Goldin released on Lovenest Records and also deep house DJ duo, WD2N. Currently Hannah is working with WD2N on a project in that genre. Mancini co-wrote the Slovene entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, "Spet/Round and Round", performed by Tinkara Kovač. That song did manage to get through to the final and placed 25th out of 26 countries.
Personal life
Currently, Mancini is married and has a daughter, Astrid. She has a sister-in-law named Karin.