Eda zari biography

Born in Tirana, as a child Eda Zari experienced the last years of the paranoid dictator Enver Hodscha before she came as young woman to Germany. Music was already her passion when she was a child. "I sang long before I could speak," she disclosed. The foundation for her passion was laid early enough with that.

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Her studies in classical singing in Cologne refined her technique, but could not drown out her love of the music of her native country. However, she also discovered a new passion: jazz with all of its rhythmic and harmonic possibilities as well as its freedom of articulation and phrasing, the epitome of a lucky coincidence of a fine mixture. As a result, a few recordings were already made (e.g., "Statement", Intuition 2004), which received outstanding reviews and justified Eda Zari's reputation as the most important German-Albanian voice.  She has performed since then in places ranging from New York (Blue Note, among others) to Sao Paolo, Challenge Records International BV NIF