Izaline Calister

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Izaline Calister

Izaline Francisca Juanita Calister (born March 9, 1969 in Curaçao , Netherlands Antilles ) is a Dutch singer , composer and songwriter .

Live and act

Izaline Calister grew up on Curaçao and attended college there . In 1987 she went to the Netherlands, where she first studied administrative economics in Groningen and then music at the Prins Claus Conservatory .

After engagements in several Latin jazz ensembles , she was accepted as the successor to Angélique Kidjo in the Pili Pili project by Jasper van't Hof . She later sang with other groups, such as the German group Dissidents in the late 1990s , with whom she recorded the album Live in Europe .

In 2000 her first solo album Soño di un muhé (Dream of a Woman) was released. In her compositions she combines the rhythmic music of her homeland such as Tambú, Ritmo Kombina, Tumba and Muzik di Zumbi with elements of jazz . In an interview she stated that she was particularly inspired by the artists Richard Bona , Dianne Reeves , Cassandra Wilson and Elis Regina . She sings in her mother tongue Papiamentu .

In 2007 Miluska Rosalina directed the documentary Izaline Calister: Lady Sings the Tambú .

Izaline Calister lives in Groningen.

Discography

Albums

  • 2000: Soño di un muhé . (Eazy C Productions)
  • 2002: Mariposa . (Eazy C Productions)
  • 2004: Krioyo . (Network)
  • 2006: Kanta Hélele . (Network)

Holdings

  • 1995: Pili Pili: Dance Jazz live . (Jaro Records)
  • 1998: Dissidents : Live in Europe . (Exile music)
  • 1998: Grupo Zamanakitoki: Wiseguy . (Toki Productions)
  • 2000: Trio Cross Currents: Sunú . (A records)
  • 2000: Jamesz: Fatuh . (Fatuh 66 Productions)
  • 2002: Frits Landesbergen & Jeroen de Rijk: First Moves featuring Jimmy Haslip , Izaline Calister
  • 2003: Randal Corsen: Evolushon (A-Records)
  • 2003: Izaline Calister, Leoni Jansen and others: She got game 2 . (Brigadoon vocal / Idol Media)
  • 2003: Made in Holland: A Tribute to Diversity . (MIH)
  • 2008: Dire Dawa: Minyeshu . (Munich)
  • 2008: Music of the Americas 08: Americas Society .
  • 2008: Different: Gerard van Maasakkers . (CUP)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Izaline Calister talks to Bernd Ihno Eilts. In: The Groningen Report. July 21, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Calister, Izaline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calister, Izaline Francisca Juanita (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Caribbean-Dutch musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Curacao