Oska
Maria Burger, known professionally as Oska, is an Austrian singer and songwriter.
Career
After graduating from high school, the then 18-year-old Oska went to Vienna to do street music. On her mother's advice, she also studied pop and jazz singing there. In mid-2020, she signed her first record deal with the Canadian label Nettwerk. With her debut EP "Honeymoon Phase", she won the "Best Sound" recording studio award at the Amadeus Austrian Music Awards in April 2022. A few months earlier, she had released her debut album "My world, My love, Paris". She accompanied, among others, Milow, Tom Odell, Stu Larsen, HAEVN and Matt Simons on tour. In August 2024 she will appear as the opening act for Coldplay in Vienna's Ernst-Happel-Stadion for four days.Personal life
Oska grew up with her four older siblings in Rastenfeld, Lower Austria. The inspiration for her stage name came from her eldest brother "Oskar", with whom she also wrote her first song. She taught herself to play the guitar in her youth.Discography
Studio albums
- My world, My love, Paris
- Refined Believer
Extended plays
- Honeymoon Phase
- It’s Normal to Shiver
- ''Live at TV Noir''
Singles
- 2020: Come Home
- 2020: Distant Universe
- 2020: Honeymoon Phase / Wide Awake & Dreaming
- 2021: In the Bleak Midwinter
- 2022: Hallucinating
- 2022: Too Nobody
- 2022: Misunderstood
- 2023: pretty by night
- 2024: Like a Song
- 2024: April May July
- 2024: Forever Blue
- 2024: Maybe I Love You
- 2024: It Happens Either Way
- 2024: The Final Straw
- 2025: With Love, Your Clementine
- 2025: Gloria
Awards
- 2020: XA – Export Award at Waves Vienna
- 2022: Tonstudiopreis „Best Sound“ at the Amadeus Austrian Music Awards for „Honeymoon Phase“
- 2023: Music Moves Europe Award
- 2024: NÖN-Leopold in the category "Kultur"
- 2025: Amadeus Awards 2025: award in the category ''Alternative''
Tours