Veda Hille

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Veda Hille portrait in October 2005

Veda Hille (born August 11, 1968 in Vancouver ) is a Canadian singer-songwriter in the field of tension between pop music, classical music, folk and jazz .

Life

She began playing the piano of her own free will at the age of six. Ten years belonged to the classical tradition, then she became increasingly interested in pop music influences. In her late teens, she switched to jazz piano. Her parents moved frequently. She found her resting pole in self-practiced music and art interests. To complete her education, she went to art school , the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver. There she studied sculpture, film art and performance action art and graduated. She also worked as a young chef. Her career as a professional musician took shape in 1992 in her own indie demo cassettes. On it were primarily her own compositions with piano, guitar and vocals, with which she successfully applied for her first stage appearances in western Canada. During those years, she also tried to see whether she could be embedded as a choreographer and arranger in the Canadian modern dance scene, which she did not pursue.

At the age of 26, she released her first album in 1994. Since then, she has released a new album approximately every 18 months. In 1997 she put together her own band (piano, bass, guitar, drums), with which she toured as a kind of art rock show , mainly in Canada, the USA, Germany and Switzerland. The line-up has remained largely the same since then:

  • Veda HILLE - voice, piano, tenor guitar, Casio synthesizer
  • Martin WALTON - bass, bottleneck guitar
  • Ford PIER - guitar, organ, French horn
  • Barry MIROCHNICK - drums, singing saw, percussion

Music and lyrics

As a composer as well as a singer and song lyricist, she is extremely eccentric and independent. Nevertheless, comparisons are made over and over again with Tori Amos , Joni Mitchell and also Alanis Morissette and PJ Harvey .

Discography

  • 2016 - album Love Waves
  • 2008 - album This Riot Life
  • 2005 - Return of the Kildeer album
  • 2004 - album Escape Songs
  • 2002 - Live album Auditorium (Vancouver East Cultural Center);
  • 2002 - album Silver
  • 2001 Field Study album song cycle for the 25th Vancouver Folk Music Festival
  • 1999 - Album You do not live in this world alone
  • 1998 - concept album Here is a Picture. Songs of Emily Carr
  • 1997 - album Spine
  • 1996 - women in (e) motion: Veda Hille
  • 1994 - Path of a Body album
  • 1992 - Indie tapes Songs of people and buildings

See also

Web links

Individual references, sources

  1. ↑ Album songs details , bandcamp.com, accessed June 11, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Hille, Veda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian chanson jazz singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Vancouver , Canada