Monica Akihary
Monica Akihary (* 1964 in the Netherlands ) is a Dutch singer of world jazz who is of Moluccan origin.
Akihary, who grew up listening to songs from her parents' homeland, recognized the gamelan roots of the musical culture of the Moluccas and their South Indian and Arab influences during her sculptor studies at the art schools in Amsterdam and Yogyakarta, and interpreted them as a special form of world music . In 1995 she founded the Duo Boi Akih together with her husband, the Dutch guitarist Niels Brouwer, which was expanded over the next few years to include jazz musicians such as Ernst Reijseger , Sean Bergin , Wolter Wierbos or Ernst Glerum and the Indian percussionist Sandip Bhattacharya. In 2002 she studied carnatic music in Bangalore . The preoccupation with Indonesian field recordings from the 1940s finally led to the album Lagu-Lagu , for whose songs she used the language spoken on the island of Haruku . She had successful appearances at the North Sea Jazz Festival and was recognized by the newspaper De Volkskrant as one of the best Dutch jazz singers. In recent years Akihary has toured several times in Southeast Asia with Boi Akih .
Discographic notes
- Boi Akih (Invitation Records / EMI 1997)
- Above the Clouds, Among the Roots (A-Records, 2000)
- Uwa I ( Enja , 2003)
- Lagu Lagu (2005)
- Yalelol (Enja, 2007)
- Circles in a Square Society (2011)
Web links
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Akihary, Monica |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch jazz and world music singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Netherlands |