Aga Zaryan

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Aga Zaryan at the JVC Jazz Festival Warsaw, 2006
Aga Zaryan 2010 at a benefit concert for Tomasz Szukalski
Aga Zaryan 2018 at a concert at the HGM

Aga Zaryan (* 17th January 1976 in Warsaw as Agnieszka Skrzypek ) is a Polish jazz singer .

Life

Zaryan, whose father is a classical pianist, grew up partly in Manchester ; through recordings by Ella Fitzgerald and Miles Davis she was led to jazz . She studied jazz at the Fryderyk Chopin Conservatory and completed several jazz workshops in the USA.

In 2002 her first album, My Lullaby , was released (still under her birth name) , which contained jazz standards and attracted a lot of attention in Poland. The follow-up album Picking Up the Pieces (2006) was also a great economic success and led to international recognition. The album Umiera Piękno ( Beauty Is Dying ) deals with the Warsaw Uprising and was awarded a Fryderyk . The singer's other records, most of which were released by international record companies, also met with high recognition; the album Looking Walking Being achieved double platinum status.

In 2018 Aga Zaryan gave in the Vienna Army History Museum as part of the finissage for the special exhibition Fight for Freedom. Warsaw Uprising in 1944 gave a concert in which she sang several songs from her album Beauty Is Dying .

Prizes and awards

At the 1998 International Jazz Singers Competition in Zamość , Zaryan took second place. Between 2007 and 2013, readers of Jazz Forum magazine repeatedly voted her the best Polish jazz singer. As for the album Umiera Piękno 2008, she also received a Fryderyk in 2011 for the album Księga Olśnień .

Discography

  • My Lullaby ( Not Two Records / Duży Dom Dystrybucyjny 2002, with Tomasz Szukalski , Michał Tokaj, Darek Oleszkiewicz , Łukasz Żyta, PL: goldgold)
  • Live at Palladium (Blue Note Poland 2002, PL:Triple platinum× 3Triple platinum )
  • Picking Up the Pieces (Cosmopolis 2006, with Larry Koonse, Munyungo Jackson, Darek Oleszkiewicz , Nolan Shaheed, PL:Double platinum× 2Double platinum )
  • Umiera Piękno (Cosmopolis / Warner Music 2007, PL:goldgold)
  • Live at the Palladium ( Warner Music 2008)
  • Looking Walking Being ( Blue Note 2010, PL:Double platinum× 2Double platinum )
  • A Book of Luminous Things (Blue Note / EMI 2011, PL:platinumplatinum)
  • Księga Olśnień (EMI 2011, PL:goldgold)
  • Remembering Nina & Abbey ( Warner Music 2013, with Geri Allen , Brian Blade , Larry Koonse, Darek Oleszkiewicz , Carol Robbins, PL:platinumplatinum)

Web links

Commons : Aga Zaryan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fryderyk 2008 ( Memento of February 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Aga Zaryan "Beauty Is Dying". “Fight for freedom. Warsaw Uprising 1944 ” at Polnisches-institut.at, accessed on September 7, 2018
  3. ↑ Fryderyk 2011
  4. ↑ Awards for music sales: PL
personal data
SURNAME Zaryan, Aga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skrzypek, Agnieszka (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw