Actor composer singer singer-songwriter
The daughter of a Czechoslovakian born jazz trumpet musician father Jiri Kripac and an Australian schoolteacher mother Eden, Lenka was raised in the Australian coastal town of Bega until age seven, when her family moved to Sydney, where she received her schooling, acting and music training, and started to work as a highly regarded actress and later musician.
As a teenager, Lenka studied acting at the Australian Theatre Foreign Young People, where she trained with actress Cate Blanchett.
Her song "Everything at Once" was used in the official Windows 8 television advertisement and in the Disney Movie Rewards commercial. Lenka starred in the Australian American Broadcasting Company-television drama series General Practice as Vesna Kapek in the 1990s. She also hosted Cheez television and has guest starred in other Australian television series, including Home and Away, Wild Side, Head Start, and Spellbinder.
She appeared in Australian feature films The Dish and Lost Things, as well as in theatre productions.
Lenka provided the vocals for 2 tracks on Paul Mac"s 2005 album, "Panic Room". She then moved to California in 2007.
After adopting her first name as her sole artistic name, Lenka released her eponymous debut album on 24 September 2008, with "The Show" (produced by Stuart Brawley) chosen to be the first single release from the set. The album peaked at number 142 on the United States Billboard 200.
Her song "Everything at Once" was featured for a Windows 8 ad, becoming a world wide success.
Lenka creates paper art type of stop-motion animated music videos for each of her singles with James Gulliver Hancock, a visual artist from Australia. The childlike appearance to all her music videos is done on purpose by the duo. Her vocal stylings are a juxtaposition of popular and layered, complicated influences.
She provided vocals on two tracks ("Addicted" and "Sunrise") on German artist Schiller"s album Atemlos, released in Germany on 12 March 2010.
As Lenka Kripac, she was a member of the Australian electronic-rock crossover band Decoder Ring for two of their albums.
