Yara Linss
Yara Linss (born June 13, 1980 in São Paulo , Brazil ) is a German-Brazilian singer , songwriter and composer . In her music she mixes jazz and different styles of Brazilian music such as Bossa Nova , Samba , MPB , Xote or Choro .
Life
The daughter of a Brazilian and a German, Linss was born in São Paulo in 1980 and came to Germany at the age of four and grew up in Ulm . She learned the violin and sang with the Ulm Sparrows . She studied jazz singing first in Maastricht and then at the University of Music in Nuremberg.
2007 Linss represented at Stimmenfang the diseased Portuguese Festival Nuremberg Maria João . Her quartet was then awarded a cultural grant from the city of Nuremberg . In 2009 she won the Bruno Rother Competition for Jazz Composition at the Nuremberg University of Music. She received the 1st prize at the Bavaria-wide Creole casting and represented Bavaria at the nationwide final in Berlin. In 2010 she was heard as part of the stage free concert series in Studio 2 at Bayrischer Rundfunk and was one of the initiators of the MetropolMusik association founded in autumn .
In February 2011 Linss presented her second album Poems in the Nuremberg Tafelhalle , which she produced in collaboration with pianist Peter Fulda . On the occasion of an evening in honor of Wisława Szymborska , the Nobel Prize laureate for literature from Cracow, she was commissioned by the Cracow House in Nuremberg to set two of Szymborska's poems to music. In spring 2012 she played the role of Princess Wassilissa in the chamber opera The Strong Wanja in the Fürth City Theater . Her album Samambaia was produced by Walter Quintus .
Awards
- 2018: Advancement Award of the Wolfram von Eschenbach Prize
Discography
- Yara Linss: debut album (2007 Upsolute Music Records)
- Rua Baden Powell Project: Rua Nova (2008 Xolo)
- Yara Linss: Poems (2011 Edition Metropolmusik)
- Metropolmusik: Engelesingen (2011 Edition Metropolmusik, with Agnes Lepp , Silke Straub and Rayka Wehner)
- LAN: UROP (2014 SugarCandyMountain)
- Yara Linss: Samambaia (2015 Double Moon Records , with Márcio Tubino, João Luís Nogueira, André de Cayres)
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Individual proof
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Linss, Yara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Brazilian singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sao Paulo , Sao Paulo , Brazil |