German R&B singer Miss Platnum delivers her bold songs with a sense of humor, a quirky, somewhat dark sense of humor that comes from hard times in her birthplace, Romania. While she was growing up in what she calls "the vampire country," her parents fled the "corruption, brutality, pogroms, trafficking of women, the Mafia and criminal gangs threatening everybody" -- her words again -- and landed in Germany. The young Miss Platnum had no idea where they had gone since her parents had said nothing about their journey in fear their daughter would slip up and say something to the ...