
Palya Bea Quintet
Born in 1976., she has been dancing and singing since her early childhood. The first stage in her career is the folk dance ensemble in her small village, Bag. At the age of sixteen, having moved to Budapest, she is singer and dance tutor for the Zurgó ensemble playing Moldavian folk music. Here, her knowledge of Hungarian vocal folk music is founded, which she continues to enhance at the Department of Ethnography of Eötvös Loránd University. She graduates in 2002.
In the course of her career as folk singer, she has participated in numerous projects which present a wide scale of music. She has always found interest in the cross-reference and fusion of various genres - thus, besides Hungarian folklore, she has devoted herself to Bulgarian, Gipsy, and Turkish folk music as well as Indian classical music. From 1996, she is singer for Laokoón Csoport, a band fusing folk and jazz elements. In the music theatre era, covering the years between 1997 and 2002, she is member of Szoke Szabolcs's 'Bladder Circus' with a performance at the 2000 Passages Universitaire Festival in Nancy.
In 2002, her participation in the Belgian 'Caravan' music project, as singer for Balkan folk group Daraduna, is followed by a French Institue scholarship in Paris, France, where she studies classical Indian music from singer Kakoli Sengupta.
In the course of her career as folk singer, she has participated in numerous projects which present a wide scale of music. She has always found interest in the cross-reference and fusion of various genres - thus, besides Hungarian folklore, she has devoted herself to Bulgarian, Gipsy, and Turkish folk music as well as Indian classical music. From 1996, she is singer for Laokoón Csoport, a band fusing folk and jazz elements. In the music theatre era, covering the years between 1997 and 2002, she is member of Szoke Szabolcs's 'Bladder Circus' with a performance at the 2000 Passages Universitaire Festival in Nancy.
In 2002, her participation in the Belgian 'Caravan' music project, as singer for Balkan folk group Daraduna, is followed by a French Institue scholarship in Paris, France, where she studies classical Indian music from singer Kakoli Sengupta.