Dhurata Dora

Dhurata Dora, born Dhurata Murturi on 24 December 1992 in Nuremberg, Germany, is a pop singer and songwriter whose music Wikipedia describes as pop and reggae; she sings mainly in Albanian, and also in German. She was born into an Albanian family and went to primary school in nearby Fürth. She counts as a Kosovan artist here because English Wikipedia describes her as a "Kosovan-Albanian singer", and her music career began after she moved to Kosovo.

She started singing as a teenager under the name Dhurata Dora. Her first single and video, "Vetë kërkove", came out in Kosovo in 2011. It was followed by "Get Down" with Don Arbas in 2012, "I Like Dat" and the summer song "Edhe pak" with Blunt & Real and Lumi B in 2013, and "A Bombi" in 2014. From 2015 she worked with Max Production in Albania, and her singles began to top the Albanian charts: "Ayo" in 2016, "Trëndafil" in 2018, "Zemër" in 2019 and "Fajet" in 2020.

"Zemër", her duet with the Algerian rapper Soolking, became her international breakthrough. Besides reaching number one in Albania it charted in France, Belgium and Switzerland. In 2020 she recorded the German-language single "Lass los" with Azet, which reached the top ten in Germany and Austria and number four in Switzerland, and "Fajet" with him as well. "Adrenalina" with the German rapper Luciano followed in 2022 and reached number three in Switzerland.

Her debut album, Dhurata, was released on 2 March 2023 by Epic Records Germany and reached number eight in Switzerland and number 40 in Austria. The same year she released "Palma" with RAF Camora and "Yummy" with Inna and Stefflon Don. On 12 July 2024 came the joint EP Vera me ty with Yll Limani, which climbed to number four in Switzerland.

Dhurata Dora has kept up a steady run of collaborations, among them Elvana Gjata, Gims, Noizy and MC Kresha. In 2025 she featured with Dardan on Azet's "Syt", another Swiss top-five hit, and her later singles include "Astika", "Ate ditë" with Noizy and "Toka" with the French producer DJ Snake.