Márta Sebestyén
Márta Sebestyén [ ˈmaːrtɒ ˈʃɛbɛʃceːn ] (born August 19, 1957 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian folk song singer .
Her mother, the folk song collector Ilona Farkas, was a student of Zoltán Kodály . Márta Sebestyén is said to have sung everything she heard at an early age, before she could speak. At the age of six, a record was made with her. After graduating from high school in Budapest, she was admitted to the Budapest Academy of Art, but gave up her studies in 1975 to have more time to sing.
Márta Sebestyén performs regularly with the folk music ensemble Muzsikás . Her repertoire includes folk songs from almost all Hungarian-speaking regions, including songs from Somogy and Transylvania ( Transylvania , Hungarian Erdély ), but she also sings Yiddish , South Slavic and Roma songs. In Hungary she is well known and highly respected because of her tireless and committed efforts to preserve the Hungarian folk songs. In order to keep the old songs and tunes of her homeland from being forgotten, she went on numerous research trips, had old people sing to her, recorded it or then wrote it down in sheet music.
For World Music Project Big Blue Ball of Peter Gabriel and Karl Wallinger Márta Sebestyén contributed to the well of her composed song River .
She became internationally known for the vocal song Szerelem, szerelem ("Liebe, Liebe"), a Hungarian folk song that she sang in the theme song of the film The English Patient . In the film it appears as a "historical" gramophone recording, for which the piece was covered with artificial scratch noises.
On a Grammy award-winning album Bohème of Deep Forest is the ballad Marta's Song to hear.
She is divorced and has two sons.
Prices
- 1984: Singer of the Year
- 1994: Officer of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
- 1996: Grammy , with the group Deep Forest for the album Boheme
- 1999: Kossuth Prize with the Ensemble Muzsikás
- 2003: Prima-primissima -Prize
- 2005: Commander of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
- 2005: Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- János Déri Prize
Discography - selection
Márta Sebestyén has participated or recorded on around 90 LPs or CDs (as of early 2009)
- 1978: Élő népzene - Living Hungarian Folk Music (with Muzsikás együttes), Hungaroton
- 1986: The Prisoner's Song (with Muzsikás ), Hannibal
- 1987: Muzsikás (with Muzsikás), Hannibal
- 1988: The Prisoner's Song (with Muzsikás), Hannibal
- 1988: Vujicsics (with Vujicsics), Hannibal
- 1988: Tündérkert. Erdélyi ballada (with Hegedős együttes), Hungaroton
- 1992: Apocrypha, Hannibal
- 1992: Transylvanian Portraits (with Ökrös Ensemble), Koch World
- 1995: Máramaros: The Lost Jewish Music of Transylvania (with Muzsikás), Hannibal
- 1995: Kettő - Hungarian Folk Music (with Muzsikás), Munich
- 1996: Kismet, Hannibal
- 1997: The Best of Márta Sebestyén: The Voice of "The English Patient," Hannibal
- 1997: Morning Star (with Muzsikás), Hannibal
- 1999: The Bartók Album (with Muzsikás), Hannibal
- 2000: Southern Slav Folk Music (with Vujicsics), Hungaroton
- 2000: Dudoltam én, Hungaroton
- 2003: Ősz Az Idő (with Muzsikás), Fono
- 2004: Live at Liszt Academy, Fono
Web links
- Márta Sebestyén's website (Hungarian)
- Muzsikás website (Hungarian / English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sebestyén, Márta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian folk song singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |