Soluna Samay Kettel was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala to a German father, musician Gerd G. Kettel (stage name Gee Gee Kettel) and a Swiss mother, artist Annelis Ziegler. She grew up on the shores of Lago de Atitlán, Guatemala and attended the Robert Muller LIFE school.
Samay represented Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan with her entry "Should"ve Known Better." Soluna is multilingual speaking fluent English, Danish, Spanish and German. Her name is derived from the Spanish words sol and luna, meaning Sun and Moon. Soluna has a Swiss passport, so, officially she is Swiss.
Soluna"s music career began at age of 5 when she joined her father on drums and soon after began singing along.
At the age of 10 she switched to electric bass, at 16 to upright bass. Soluna started to learn guitar around the age of 12, when she also wrote her first songs.
Soluna was chosen as a wildcard entry by DR1 for the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix (Danish Eurovision Song Contest), singing a song called "Should"ve Known Better" written by Remee, Isam B (Outlandish) and A Sulaiman and produced by Chief1. Results from the voting of the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2012 The song performed 13th in the first semi-final and finished 9th to qualify for the Eurovision final where she finished 23rd.
