With music of Riccardo Cocciante (Italy – France), Eva Salina (USA), Ot Azoj (NL).
Riccardo Cocciante
He is a French-Italian singer-songwriter, born in Vietnam. He started his career in Rome, Italy, with a first album in 1972. His breakthrough came a few years later with the title ‘Bella Senz’Anima’, with arrrangements of Ennio Morricone. In 1983, Riccardo signed a contract with record company Virgin and he worked in the music studios in Los Angeles. Together with French-Canadian scriptwriter Luc Plamondon, Riccardo started on an adaptation of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, with the title Notre Dame de Paris. The musical had his first successful performance in 1999.
Cd. Innamorato van Roccardo Cocciant. Label: Columbia/Sony Music Italy (1997), code: col485393.2. Video
Eva Salina 
She grew up in the Balkans music communities and was already on a young age familiar with the works of the Serbian singer Šaban Bajramović, who was the most popular and influential Romani singer of his generation in the 1960s and 70s. Eva Salina studied Balkan singing on a young age. She got the idea to record a tribute to Šaban Bajramović, but influenced by her own New York City style jazz and beat. Cd. Lema Lema: Eva Salina sings Saban Bajramovic. Label: VogitOn Records (2016). Video
Ot Azoj 
With Dza Dza Dzum, the band Ot Azoj presents a new sound. Original compositions mixed with a Balkan swing, Klezmer rumba and irregular times, together with screaming solos.
Cd. Dza Dza Dzum van Ot Azoj. Label: AAC Records / Music & Words (2016), code: AAC99501. Video
Extra information:
8 mei – 20:30, Leyla McCalla performs in Paradiso Amsterdam-noord (Tuinzaal).
