Márta Sebestyén (born August 19, 1957,
BudapestBudapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe. In 2009, Budapest had 1,712,210 inhabitants, down from a mid-1980s...
) is a
HungarianHungary , in English officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. Its capital is Budapest. Hungary is a member of OECD, NATO, EU, V4 and is a Schengen state...
folkThe term folk music originated in the 19th century as a term for musical folklore. It has been defined in several ways; as music transmitted by word of mouth, music of the lower classes, music with no known composer...
vocalist.
Sebestyén was educated at Miklós Radnóti Grammar School,
BudapestBudapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe. In 2009, Budapest had 1,712,210 inhabitants, down from a mid-1980s...
. She has sung regularly and recorded with the Hungarian folk group
MuzsikásMuzsikás is a Hungarian musical group playing mainly folk music of Hungary and other countries and peoples of the region. Established in 1973, it has also played works by classical composers, especially Béla Bartók, who himself collected folk tunes...
. She is known for adaptations of
SomogySomogy is the name of an administrative county in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary.-Somogy county:...
and Erdély folk songs, some of which appear in
Deep ForestDeep Forest is a musical group consisting of two French musicians, Michel Sanchez and Eric Mouquet. They compose a new kind of world music, sometimes called ethnic electronica, mixing ethnic with electronic sounds and dance beats or chillout beats. Their sound has been described as an...
's
Bohème album, which received the
Grammy AwardThe Grammy Awards —or Grammys—are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry...
for Best World Music Album in 1996.
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Márta Sebestyén (born August 19, 1957,
BudapestBudapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe. In 2009, Budapest had 1,712,210 inhabitants, down from a mid-1980s...
) is a
HungarianHungary , in English officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. Its capital is Budapest. Hungary is a member of OECD, NATO, EU, V4 and is a Schengen state...
folkThe term folk music originated in the 19th century as a term for musical folklore. It has been defined in several ways; as music transmitted by word of mouth, music of the lower classes, music with no known composer...
vocalist.
Sebestyén was educated at Miklós Radnóti Grammar School,
BudapestBudapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe. In 2009, Budapest had 1,712,210 inhabitants, down from a mid-1980s...
. She has sung regularly and recorded with the Hungarian folk group
MuzsikásMuzsikás is a Hungarian musical group playing mainly folk music of Hungary and other countries and peoples of the region. Established in 1973, it has also played works by classical composers, especially Béla Bartók, who himself collected folk tunes...
. She is known for adaptations of
SomogySomogy is the name of an administrative county in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary.-Somogy county:...
and Erdély folk songs, some of which appear in
Deep ForestDeep Forest is a musical group consisting of two French musicians, Michel Sanchez and Eric Mouquet. They compose a new kind of world music, sometimes called ethnic electronica, mixing ethnic with electronic sounds and dance beats or chillout beats. Their sound has been described as an...
's
Bohème album, which received the
Grammy AwardThe Grammy Awards —or Grammys—are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry...
for Best World Music Album in 1996. She has also adapted
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, Yiddish,
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n,
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etc. folk songs to traditional Hungarian style.
Sebestyén sang in the movie "The English Patient" (
Szerelem, szerelem). Three songs recorded together with Muzsikás appeared in the Japanese animated movie "Only Yesterday". She also sang in and contributed material to the album
Kaddish by Towering Inferno (
Richard WolfsonRichard Wolfson was a British musician, performance artist, cameraman and journalist. He is probably best remembered for the concept album Kaddish which he created with Andy Saunders using the band name Towering Inferno.-Life:Wolfson was born to an orthodox Jewish family...
and Andy Saunders, 1993).
Albums
- 1987 - Muzsikás
Muzsikás is a Hungarian musical group playing mainly folk music of Hungary and other countries and peoples of the region. Established in 1973, it has also played works by classical composers, especially Béla Bartók, who himself collected folk tunes...
- 1992 - Transylvanian Portraits
- 1995 - Kismet
Compilations
- 1992 - Apocrypha
- 1997 - The Best of Márta Sebestyén
- 2000 - World Star of World Music
Appears On
- 1983 - István a király
- 1986 - Vujicsics
- 1996 - Szerelmeslemez (Loverecord)
- 1998 - Connecting Images ( Nokia
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...
)
- 1999 - Mountain Flying (Julius Dobos)
The following sources were used in the creation and correction of this article: juliusodobs.com, AllMusicGuide.com, hungariancomposers.com, mp3.com, European Composers Encyclopedia, Mountain Flying booklet, Nokia Magazine 11/1999, Pesti Est Magazine, Filmvilag, Periferic Records Press Release,...
- 2008 - Big Blue Ball
Big Blue Ball is an album by multiple artists which "grew from 3 recording weeks" at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in the summers of 1991, 1992, and 1995.....
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