Biography
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Years Active
2020 – present (5 years)
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Members
- Manuela Kraller (2020 – present)
Alanae is a project created by German soprano singer Manuela Kraller (born 1 August 1981), best known as former lead singer of German symphonic metal band Xandria from late 2010 until late 2013, and one of the soprano vocalists in German symphonic metal band Haggard. She's also part of the duo Valkea Valo with her friend Tobias Gut.
Manuela began her musical life in 2005 at the age of 23 while singing in a Finnish choir group, and discovered her new passion was singing. She began to take classical singing lessons and sang in more church and gospel choirs, and was soon asked to become a solo singer. She grew up with rock and metal music, and wanted to combine it with her classical background, and so began singing rock and metal music songs.
While writing her own songs, she joined the Swiss band Nagor Mar, but shortly, she left and became a vocalist for German musical group Haggard. She only performed with Haggard live with no studio albums. On 19 December 2010, she became the new singer of Xandria after Lisa Middelhauve finished performing the rest of the live tour dates after Kerstin's departure. On 7 January 2011, she debuted live with Xandria at the "Classic Meets Pop" event at the Seidensticker Halle in Bielefeld, and performed their 2004 hit song, "Ravenheart", with the Bielefeld Philharmonic Orchestra. She then toured with Xandria on the Out of The Dark tour. On 28 November 2011, Xandria announced they would release their first album with Kraller titled Neverworld's End and released the album's first and only single "Valentine" on 14 February 2012, followed by their music video with Manuela. She then went on tour with Epica, Stream of Passion and Kamelot on their Neverworld's End tour.
Manuela has collaborated with Finish band Dark Sarah (lead by ex-Amberian Dawn singer Heidi Parviainen) on the songs "Memories Fall" from the album "Behind The Black Veil" (2015) and "Rain" from "The Puzzle" (2016).
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