Eva Kurowski
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Eva Kurowski (born 1965) is a German jazz musician and singer.[1][2]
Life
[edit]Kurowski was born in the Ruhr area in 1965. Music was a constant presence in her life from an early age. A shawm band performed during her birth and the music of Billie Holiday was played on the record player at her home.[3] Walter, her father, is a jazz musician and plays in many clubs in the Ruhr Valley, (K-14 in Oberhausen, Blue-Note in Eisenheim), and therefore she was exposed to jazz from an early age.[citation needed] She and her father, a communist, would participate in Easter marches and sing worker's songs.[3]
She currently tours the Ruhr area with her jazz band.
Her book "Avanti Popoloch: Eine sozialistische Kindheit im Ruhrgebiet" (ISBN 3938834331) was published in 2008.[4] In "Gott schmiert keine Stullen", published in 2012 by Rowohlt Polaris, she recollects her childhood.[3][5]
Music
[edit]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.
Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung described her as the "Billie Holiday of structural change [...] With a voice as black as coal..." ("Billie Holiday des Strukturwandels [...] Mit einer Stimme schwarz wie Kohle..."), and likened her to a "female Helge" ("weiblicher Helg"), for the breadth of her musical experience.[6]
Discography
[edit]- Reich ohne Geld (Empire Without Money) (2002, Roof-Music)[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Schmidt, Kai. "Eva Kurowski - Reich ohne Geld". Bloom (in German). Retrieved 7 August 2011.
- ^ Hagedorn, Matthias (February 2011). "va Kurowski aus Oberhausen–Eisenheim erhält in Anerkennung ihres künstlerischen Werks das Hungertuch für Musik 2011" (in German). Vordenker. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
- ^ a b c Hagemann, Heidi (3 June 2016). "Heimat in Bad Mülheim gefunden". Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 13 December 2024.
- ^ Hagedorn, Matthias. "Eva Kurowski läßt den Ruhr-ge-Beat swingen" (in German). SudDeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
- ^ "Eva Kurowski liest „Stullen" digital für die Ludwiggalerie". Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). 20 May 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
- ^ "Eva Kurowski kommt zum Jazzabend ins Langenberger Kunsthaus". Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). 4 April 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
- ^ Literature by and about Kurowski, Eva in the German National Library catalogue
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