2002—2009: Career beginnings In 2002, a producer asked Abdieski and school friend Vanessa Tancredi to collaborate on a
mundart album, a collection of songs in
Swiss German dialect. Meanwhile, Abdieski was hired as a backing vocalist for the Swiss pop–rock band
Lunik and worked with musician
Santiago Cortés on his debut album
Welcome to My Airline (2005). Still with Vanessædita, Abdieski was cast in the leading role of Kimberly in the musical
Dance Me! – The Streetdance Musical in autumn 2005. A same-titled album, on which she appeared along with her ensemble, was released in January 2006 but failed to chart. After Vanessædita's contract signing with Muve Recordings, their album ''Z'Debü
("The Debut''") was finally released in Switzerland in March 2006. Although its first single "Wenn ig nume wüsst" entered the top fifty of the
Swiss Singles Chart, the
pop soul–influenced album underperformed commercially, only reaching number eighty-two on the
Swiss Albums Chart. In 2007, Abdieski and Tancredi disbanded amicably, citing musical differences. Abdieski later stated, that after one album, she had become aware that mundart singing was "not [her] thing."
2010: First Studio Album One In November and December 2010, Edita was recording her debut studio album which will be called
One. The record will be released in March 2011. It will include her top ten hit "
I've Come to Life" and her 2nd single "The Key" which was written by
Jörgen Elofsson who has also written songs for
Celine Dion Britney Spears and
Il Divo. Another highlight will be a feature with Latin star
Ricky Martin. The track is called "
The Best Thing About Me Is You" and features writing from another Swedish heavyweight,
Andreas Carlsson. Keeping up the Scandinavian presence are Norwegian production/songwriting teams
Dsign Music and Tracksville ("When The Music Is Over"), as well as writers Mads Hauge ("Another Universe") and Torgeir Bjordal ("I Don't Know"). In January Edita won the DIVA Award in the category "Talent of the Year". Abdieski shot the video for her single "The Key" in Teneriffa. On 25 January 2011 it was confirmed that another track on
One will be called "Give A Little Love, Get A Little Love". The song was written by
Ben Cullum,
Jamie Cullum's brother.
2011: Edita Club Tour and new album In June 2011, Edita was on her first Club Tour in four German and two Swiss cities. She presented two new songs called "Done With You" and "Really Love Me", which she wrote by herself. The two songs are from her expected upcoming second studio album. ==Discography==