Eva Kurowski
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Eva Kurowski is a German jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 musician and singer.

Life

Kurowski's father Walter is a jazz musician and plays in many clubs in the Ruhr
Ruhr
The Ruhr is a medium-size river in western Germany , a right tributary of the Rhine.-Description:The source of the Ruhr is near the town of Winterberg in the mountainous Sauerland region, at an elevation of approximately 2,200 feet...

 Valley, (K-14 in Oberhausen, Blue-Note in Eisenheim), and therefore his daughter was constantly exposed to jazz from an early age.

In 1982 Kurowski began singing and met many musicians, including her promoter Helge Schneider
Helge Schneider
Helge Schneider is a German comedian, jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist, author, film and theatre director, and actor....

. She appeared with him and Uwe Lyko regularly on stage as of 1983.

In Stangenfieber, Helge Schneider's first short film, Kurowski sang the main song and played the socondary role. Working on this film she met cameraman Christoph Schlingensief
Christoph Schlingensief
Christoph Maria Schlingensief was a German film and theatre director, actor, artist, and author. Starting as an independent underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later began staging productions for theatres and festivals, which often were accompanied by public controversies...

 and appeared in the preshow of his Mülheim Filmclub 69. She assists on television shows under the guidance of Alfred Edel.

In 1992 Kurowski founded a band with Christian Brockmeier on piano, Dieter Stein
Dieter Stein
Dieter Stein is a German journalist, publisher, editor-in-chief and founder of the right wing newspaper Junge Freiheit....

 on contrabass and Mike Gosen on drums. She performs duets with pianist Martin Scholz. In 1997 she performed with the Tim Isfort Orchestra and for Blixa Bargeld
Blixa Bargeld
Blixa Bargeld is a composer, author, actor, singer, musician, performer and lecturer in a number of artistic fields...

.

In 2001 Kurowski received the Comedy Carl Prize.

In 2002 Kurowski released her first solo CD: Reich ohne Geld, produced by Helge Schneider.

She currently tours the Ruhr area with her jazz band

Music

Kurowski writes her own music and words, based in a classical jazz sound. Her female perspective in her songs is influenced by daily life in the Ruhr Valley, and alternates between pop, children's songs and jazz.

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