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Maria Viktoria Mena (born February 19, 1986) is a Norwegian pop artist.

Maria Mena was born into an artistic family. Her mother wrote plays and her father Charles was a drummer. Both Mena and her brother Tony are named after characters from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. Her father played in several bands in Oslo, which influenced Mena towards music. When Mena was nine years old, her parents divorced. She suffered from depression and developed an eating disorder. Read more...