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Esra Dalfidan is a Turkish-German jazz singer.
Dalfidan was born in 1975 to Turkish parents and raised in the German industrial town of
Radio broadcast of Fidan by Dutch VPRO's Jazz@vpro, recorded 9 May 2008 during Jazz in Duketown, in De Toonzaal in Den Bosch. Broadcast on 23 May 2008. Part 1: Colors, Blue, Sen Gelmez Oldun, Straight Ahead, Endless, Bridges, Worthwhile, Gossip, Yalgizam. (Music starts at 4:00)Part 2: Yalgizam, Everlasting Asking
Portrait of Esra in Solinger Tageblatt, 15 May 2008
Official site
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Career
Dalfidan was born in 1975 to Turkish parents and raised in the German industrial town of Solingen
Solingen (; li, Solich) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located some 25 km east of Düsseldorf along the northern edge of the region called Bergisches Land, south of the Ruhr area, and, with a 2009 population of 161,366, ...
. After a brief career as a music therapist, she attended Amsterdam Conservatory
The Conservatorium van Amsterdam (CvA) is a Dutch conservatoire of music located in Amsterdam. This school is the music division of the Amsterdam University of the Arts, the city's vocational university of arts. The Conservatorium van Amsterdam ...
in 2006. With classmates she started FIDAN, a band that combined jazz with folk music from Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
and Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...
. Dalfidan sings lyrics in English, German, and Turkish. The band's name comes from the Turkish word for twig or branch. As her main influences and source of inspiration she mentions the Azeri singer and pianist Aziza Mustafa Zadeh and the Portuguese singer Maria João. Zadeh developed a blend of jazz, modern, and Azeri traditional music called mugam jazz.
In 2008 she performed a series of concerts with the Tineke Postma Group, extending into the first half of 2009. She worked with an ensemble called Gandhi Bazaar led by Ned McGowan. This group assembled five musicians with backgrounds in jazz, classical, Indian, Turkish, and flamenco music. The Gandhi Bazaar concert tour was commissioned by the Dutch Fund for the Performing Arts and some of the compositions were created to accompany texts by the Dutch-Iranian poet Nafiss Nia.
Awards and honors
* Jugend Musiziert, 1991 * Winner, 7th Dutch Vocalists Concours, 2007 * Finalist, Deloitte Jazz Award 2008Discography
* ''Colors'' (Challenge, 2008) * ''CounterPoint'' (Challenge, 2010)References
Radio broadcast of Fidan by Dutch VPRO's Jazz@vpro, recorded 9 May 2008 during Jazz in Duketown, in De Toonzaal in Den Bosch. Broadcast on 23 May 2008. Part 1: Colors, Blue, Sen Gelmez Oldun, Straight Ahead, Endless, Bridges, Worthwhile, Gossip, Yalgizam. (Music starts at 4:00)
Portrait of Esra in Solinger Tageblatt, 15 May 2008
External links
Official site
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