Anca Parghel
Anca Parghel (born September 16, 1957 in Câmpulung Moldovenesc ; † December 5, 2008 in Timișoara , Timiș County ) was a Romanian singer of modern jazz .
Live and act
Parghel studied at the music academy in the north-eastern Romanian city of Iași and graduated with a thesis on the improviser Charlie Parker . First she taught singing, piano and improvisation in Suceava and Bucharest . With the support of Klaus Ignatzek and Jean-Louis Rassinfosse (CD Indian Princess ), she also became known in Central Europe. She moved to Brussels, where she taught, but also taught at music academies in Germany, Great Britain and Moldova. She performed with musicians such as Peter Herbolzheimer , Larry Coryell , Norma Winstone , Billy Hart , Archie Shepp , Claudio Roditi , Philip Catherine , Mark Levine , Tomasz Stańko and Riccardo Del Fra , and toured Germany with Stephan König's trio. Her two sons played in her own band. In 2008 she was involved in Tom Boxer's Romanian hit Brasil .
Parghel released a total of 15 albums. The singer has been compared to the Peruvian Yma Sumac and Ella Fitzgerald again and again . After beating breast cancer a few years earlier , she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer . After unsuccessful attempts at treatment in a Bucharest hospital, therapy with alternative medicine in a Belgrade clinic also failed. Anca Parghel succumbed to cancer on December 5, 2008 in the Timisoara County Hospital .
Individual evidence
- ↑ A murit Anca Parghel (EVZ.ro from December 5, 2008) ( Memento from June 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Parghel, Anca |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian jazz singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Câmpulung Moldovenesc |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 5, 2008 |
| Place of death | Timișoara , Timiș County |