LEVINA - PERFECT LIFE

PERFECT LIFE

LEVINA

SONGWRITERS: LINDY ROBBINS; DAVE BASSETT & LINDSEY RAY

COUNTRY: GERMANY

ALBUM: UNEXPECTED

LABEL: UNSER SONG

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2017

 

       Isabella Levina Lueen(born 1 May 1991), better known mononymously as Levina(German pronunciation:[lɛˈviːna]) or Izza after a rebranding in 2020, is a German singer-songwriter. She represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kyiv with the song "Perfect Life" and finished in 25th place with 6 points in the final, thus becoming the first German entrant in two years not to have placed last.

     Levina was born in Bonn, and was raised in Chemnitz. She attended the Dr.-Wilhelm-André-Gymnasium, and graduated with na International Baccalaureate degree from the Impington Village College in Cambridge(UK) in 2009. She then moved to London where she earned her bachelor's degree from King's College London. She splits her time between Berlin and London, where she studies music management at the London College of Music.

         Unexpected is the debut studio album by German recording artist Levina. It was released on 28 April 2017 by Unser Song Records in association with RCA Records and Sony Music.

       "Perfect Life" was released as the lead single from the album on 10 February 2017. The song peaked at number 28 on the German Singles Chart. In January 2017, Levina was confirmed to be one of the five finalists competing in Unser Song 2017, Germany's national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017. On 9 February 2017, the night of the final, she advanced to the final round with the songs "Wildfire" and "Perfect Life". The German public then chose "Perfect Life" as the winning song. As Germany is a member of the "Big Five", she will automatically advance to the final, held on 13 May 2017 in Kyiv, Ukraine. 

I come alive inside the light of the unexpected

Maybe I thrive outside the comfort zone

What is a prize without a fight? Yeah, I got addicted

To what I thought I wanted, and all along...

 

I've been walking asleep, dreaming awake

Finding I bend but I don't break

I'm almost a sinner, nearly a saint

Finding with every breath I take

I'm not afraid of making mistakes

Sometimes it's wrong before it's right

That's what you call a perfect life

 

Gathering thorns from the stems of a thousand roses

Weathering storms on the long way home

I look for the sweet in every bitter moment tasted

In every last mistake I see the other side

 

I've been walking asleep, dreaming awake

Finding I bend but I don't break

I'm almost a sinner, nearly a saint

Finding with every breath I take

I'm not afraid of making mistakes

Sometimes it's wrong before it's right

That's what you call a perfect

And that's what you call a perfect

And that's what you call a perfect life

 

I've been walking asleep, dreaming awake

Finding I bend but I don't break

I'm almost a sinner, nearly a saint

Finding with every breath I take

I'm not afraid of making mistakes

Sometimes it's wrong before it's right

And that's what you call a perfect

That's what you call a perfect

That's what you call a perfect life.