members: Ági Szalóki (vocals), Dávid Lamm (guitar), Zoltán Kovács (doublebass), András Dés (percussions)
Ági Szalóki’s album Cipity Lőrinc was released in 2006, and received the ‘Fonogram’ Award in the Best Album for Children category in the following year. Most of the songs are adaptations of Transylvanian and Northern Hungarian folk songs, three of them in Romani language, while some are poems by famous Hungarian poets set to music. Ági Szalóki is one of the most talented and celebrated representatives of the new generation of folk singers who burst onto the scene at the end of the 1990s. For several years she was the singer of a popular world music band as well as that of a folk group, playing all over Hungary and Europe. Since 2005 she has been pursuing her solo career with her own bands. Of her three solo albums released so far, two have won the ‘Fonogram’ Album of the Year Awards. Her singing style, characterized by subtle sensitivity, childlike honesty and inventiveness, has even attracted the attention of great Hungarian jazz musicians.
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