Lyambiko

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Lyambiko, 2012
Lyambiko, 2012
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Lyambiko / So Close to You
  DE 91 03/07/2005 (2 weeks)
Love ... and Then
  DE 78 03/10/2006 (3 weeks)
Inner Sense
  DE 89 03/02/2007 (3 weeks)
Saffronia
  DE 57 03/07/2008 (2 weeks)
Lyambiko Sings Gershwin
  DE 78 02/17/2012 (1 week)

Lyambiko (* 1978 as Sandy Müller in Greiz in Thuringia ) is a German jazz singer .

Live and act

The singer Lyambiko (bourgeois Sandy Müller), whose stage name is the last name of her father, who comes from Tanzania , grew up in a musically active family. Her grandfather was already a member of a jazz combo in the 1930s and her father was active as a singer both in the church choir and in jazz / world music bands. In her childhood, Lyambiko enjoyed lessons in saxophone , clarinet and classical singing and played, among other things, in the big band of the music school as a tenor saxophonist. At the age of 17 Lyambiko founded her first band as a singer (folk, pop, blues) and was the youngest participant in a band contest, in which she won her first studio recording.

After a long musical break, Lyambiko moved to Berlin in 1999. As part of the preparation for the entrance exam to the University of Music, she received singing and piano lessons and developed a small repertoire of jazz standards. First concerts in Berlin jazz clubs followed with different line-ups and a regular engagement “Lyambiko - Strange Fruit” in a duo with guitar. In April 2000, through a recommendation from singer Mark Murphy , Lyambiko was given the opportunity to perform in the renowned Berlin jazz club A-Trane .

From April 2001 the quartet of the same name was named after Lyambiko, with whom she expanded her concert activities to Germany, later also to neighboring European countries and the USA.

In addition to her jazz projects, the singer worked with a children's and youth choir on a program with African music for the first time in 2007.

As “Singer of the Year” nationally, Lyambiko won the 2011 Echo Jazz with “Something Like Reality” .

Lyambiko (band)

The band of the same name originally consisted of the US pianist Marque Lowenthal, the Canadian bassist Robin Draganic, the German drummer Torsten Zwingenberger and the Afro-German singer Lyambiko. She has recently been assisted on drums by Heinrich Köbberling .

The band made their first appearance in April 2001 and has been on tour throughout Germany and abroad ever since. They play swing , latin and soul jazz , including many standards .

The first two albums were released by the Hamburg jazz label Nagel Heyer Records , after which they switched to Sony BMG . The album Shades of delight came to number 2 on the German jazz charts . The albums Lyambiko , a collection of flattering jazz standards, and Love… And Then each received a Jazz Award from the German Phono Association. In February 2007 the CD Inner Sense was released , to which Lyambiko contributed two of his own songs for the first time. In addition to two cover versions from pop / rock music, the album only contains original compositions. The CD "Saffronia" (Sony BMG) pays homage to Nina Simone .

Discographic notes

  • Out of this mood (2002)
  • Shades of delight (2003)
  • Lyambiko (2005) (DE: Gold in the German Jazz Award )
  • Love ... and then (2006) (DE: Gold in the German Jazz Award)
  • Inner Sense (2007) (DE: Gold in the German Jazz Award)
  • Saffronia (2008)
  • Something Like Reality (2010)
  • Lyambiko sings Gershwin (2012) (DE: Gold in the German Jazz Award)
  • Muse (2015)
  • Love Letters (2017)
  • My Favorite Christmas Songs (2018)
  • Berlin - New York (2019)

Web links

Commons : Lyambiko  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lyambiko in the German charts
  2. ↑ birthdates 1978 in Greiz to Wölffer Jazz in Germany , Hannibal 2008, p 218
  3. ↑ a b c d Database: BVMI. Retrieved December 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lyambiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Sandy (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Greiz