Zola Jesus

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Zola Jesus during her concert at Waves Vienna 2011 in Vienna

Zola Jesus (born April 11, 1989 in Phoenix (Arizona) as Nika Roza Danilova ) is an American singer-songwriter and music producer.

Career

Danilova recorded his first own songs at the age of 16. Two years later she began performing under the name Zola Jesus . Her voice, trained in opera singing, combines the melancholy sound of pop music from the 1960s with elements of today's Gothic Rock and Dark Wave . In 2010 she released four albums with Stridulum II , 2011 with Conatus , 2013 with Versions and 2014 with Taiga . She toured with Fever Ray in 2010, among others . After a joint appearance with JG Thirlwell at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2012, Zola Jesus announced that she would continue her collaboration with him.

Discography

Albums

  • 2009: The Spoils
  • 2010: Stridulum II
  • 2011: Conatus
  • 2013: Versions
  • 2014: Taiga
  • 2017: Okovi

EPs

  • 2009: Tsar Bomba
  • 2009: Valusia
  • 2010: Stridulum

Web links

Commons : Zola Jesus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Vorreyer: Zola Jesus on tour with Taiga. (No longer available online.) Spex, July 15, 2014, archived from the original on October 14, 2014 ; accessed on October 8, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spex.de
  2. ^ Biography of the artist at laut.de , September 30, 2011 (accessed December 25, 2013)
  3. ↑ Zola Jesus in Berlin: Lady Gaga the Couch Potato SPIEGEL online, September 30, 2011 (accessed December 25, 2013)
  4. ↑ Biography and program announcement ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the performance at the Decibel Festival in Seattle on September 28, 2013 (accessed December 25, 2013)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dbfestival.com
  5. ↑ Together with the Australian no-wave pioneer JG Thirlwell, Zola Jesus has re-recorded her music. ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. June 11, 2013 (accessed December 25, 2013)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ampya.com
  6. ↑ Exotics in the Guggenheim: Zola Jesus and JG Thirlwell FOCUS, August 27, 2013 (accessed December 25, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Jesus, Zola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Danilova, Nika Roza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer-songwriter and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Phoenix (Arizona)