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{{Short description|Austrian singer (born 1996-10-22)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2012}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name             = Oska
| image            = OSKA, 2024-09-28.jpg
| caption          =
| birth_name       = Maria Burger
| alias            =
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1996-10-22}}
| birth_place      = [[Rastenfeld]], Austria
| genre            = {{hlist|[[Pop music|Pop]]}}
| occupation       = {{hlist|Singer|songwriter}}
| instrument       = Vocals, guitar
| years_active     =
| label            = [[Nettwerk]]
| associated_acts  =
| website          =
}}
'''Maria Burger''' (born 1996), known professionally as '''Oska''' (stylized in all caps), 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.<ref>{{cite web |author=Konvoi |url=https://www.konvoi.at/project/oska/ |title=OSKA |publisher=Konvoi Artist Management & Booking |language=de |accessdate=2024-02-22}}</ref> In mid-2020, she signed her first record deal with the Canadian label [[Nettwerk]]. With her debut EP "Honeymoon Phase" (2021), 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|HAEVN]] and [[Matt Simons]] on tour.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.konvoi.at/project/oska/ |title=OSKA |publisher=Konvoi Artist Management & Booking |language=de |accessdate=2024-02-22}}</ref> In August 2024 she will appear as the opening act for [[Coldplay]] in Vienna's [[Ernst-Happel-Stadion]] for four days.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://soundportal.at/news/music/news-detail/oska-im-vorprogramm-von-coldplay-1 |title=OSKA im Vorprogramm von Coldplay |publisher=Soundportal |date=2024-02-19 |language=de |accessdate=2024-02-22}}</ref>
== Personal life ==
Oska grew up with her four older siblings in [[Rastenfeld]], [[Lower Austria]] ([[Krems-Land District]]).<ref>{{cite web |author=Teresa Sturm |url=https://kurier.at/chronik/niederoesterreich/saengerin-oska-es-gibt-keinen-plan-b/400760436 |title=Sängerin OSKA: "Es gibt keinen Plan B" |publisher=Kurier |date=2020-02-21 |language=de |accessdate=2024-02-22}}</ref> The inspiration for her stage name came from her eldest brother "Oskar", with whom she also wrote her first song.<ref>{{cite web |author=Isabella Klebinger und Michael Franz Woels |url=https://www.musicaustria.at/songschreiben-ist-fuer-mich-das-schoenste-von-allem-oska-im-mica-interview/ |title="SONGSCHREIBEN IST FÜR MICH DAS SCHÖNSTE VON ALLEM." – OSKA IM MICA-INTERVIEW |publisher=mica - music austria |date=2020-11-02 |language=de |accessdate=2024-02-22}}</ref> She taught herself to play the guitar in her youth.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goodoldoska.com/ |title=OSKA |language=en |accessdate=2022-02-24}}</ref>
== Discography ==
=== Studio albums ===
* ''My world, My love, Paris'' (2022)
=== Extended plays ===
* ''Honeymoon Phase'' (2021)
* ''It’s Normal to Shiver'' (2022)
* '' Live at TV Noir'' (2023)
===Singles===
* 2020: ''Come Home''
* 2020: ''Distant Universe'' (Live Acoustic Session)
* 2020: ''Honeymoon Phase / Wide Awake & Dreaming''
* 2021: ''In the Bleak Midwinter''
* 2022: ''Hallucinating'' (It's Normal to Shiver Version)
* 2022: ''Too Nobody'' (It's Normal to Shiver Version)
* 2022: ''Misunderstood'' (It's Normal to Shiver Version)
* 2023: ''pretty by night'' (from the Amazon Original Motion Picture "Silver and the Book of Dreams")
* 2024: ''Like a Song''
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[[Category:1998 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Krems-Land District]]
[[Category:Austrian pop singers]]
[[Category:Austrian women pop singers]]
[[Category:Austrian jazz singers]]
[[Category:Austrian women jazz singers]]
[[Category:21st-century Austrian women singers]]
[[Category:Austrian women singer-songwriters]]
[[Category:English-language singers from Austria]]