Esra Dalfidan was born in 1975, of Turkish parents, and raised in the German industrial town of Solingen. After a brief career as a music therapist, and after 10 years of studying classical guitar, she decided to switch her life round and focus fully on becoming a professional musician. She was admitted to the Amsterdam Conservatory to study jazz singing and completed her Master's degree in 2007 with honours. She now lives in the Netherlands.
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Esra Dalfidan was born in 1975, of Turkish parents, and raised in the German industrial town of Solingen. After a brief career as a music therapist, and after 10 years of studying classical guitar, she decided to switch her life round and focus fully on becoming a professional musician. She was admitted to the Amsterdam Conservatory to study jazz singing and completed her Master's degree in 2007 with honours. She now lives in the Netherlands.
As a singer she is difficult to categorize, but it would be fair to say that the core of her music is founded on the broad carpet of musical styles that we call jazz. Her fondness of Turkish and Azeri traditional music gives all of her songs and compositions an oriental accent, sometimes passionate, then melancholic and yearning, and always full of surprises, both in its melodic lines, tempi, and phrasing.
Her own compositions are crisp and precise and full of irregular and changing tempi, 5/4, 7/4, and more, without ever sounding forced. Each of...
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