Meena Cryle

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Meena Cryle with Claudia K.'s Woodstock Project on Kaiserwiese in Vienna's Prater (2009)

Meena Cryle (* 1977 in Überackern as Martina Kreil ) is an Austrian blues singer and musician. In 2013 she was nominated for the Amadeus Austrian Music Award in the Jazz / World / Blues category.

Life

Meena Cryle was born in 1977 as the third child of a master electrician in a village in Upper Austria . In her musical family, she grew up listening to local folk music and started singing at an early age. When she was 15, she formed a psychedelic blues rock band. After graduating, she worked in a women's refuge in Mozambique and traveled through Europe and the north of the USA. In Vienna she finally signed her first management contract. She formed a band and gave concerts with various artists. She signed to Ruf Records and recorded her first official album, Try Me (2010) , with guitarist Chris Fillmore in Stantonville , Tennessee .

At the European Blues Challenge in Berlin in 2011 she came second out of 16 participating bands. In 2012 and 2013 she released the albums Feel Me and Tell Me , recorded in Berlin . In autumn 2015, the live album In Concert: Live on Tour , which was released in 2017, was recorded at various venues .

Discography

Albums

  • 2010: Try Me , Ruf Records
  • 2012: Feel Me , Ruf Records
  • 2013: Tell Me , Ruf Records (Meena Cryle & The Chris Fillmore Band)
  • 2017: In Concert: Live On Tour , Continental Blue Heaven (Meena Cryle & The Chris Fillmore Band)
  • 2019: Elevations ((Meena Cryle & The Chris Fillmore Band))

Web links

Commons : Meena Cryle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Soulful lentil curry. In: orf.at. Retrieved October 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Meena. In: Blueslawine.de. Retrieved October 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Meena Cryle & Chris Fillmore Band voor dubbelconcert naar De Amer. In: Ditisassen.nl. Retrieved October 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Meena Cryle & Ryan McGarvey ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Just two points behind Belgian winner Howlin 'Bill. In: The Standard . March 23, 2011, accessed May 29, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Cryle, Meena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreil, Martina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian singer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Over-piling