LYAMBIKO

LYAMBIKO was born in Thuringia/Germany and grew up in a musically active family. In her childhood, LYAMBIKO enjoyed lessons in saxophone, clarinet and classical singing and played, among other things, in the big band of the music school as a tenor saxophonist. At the age of 17, the singer founded her first band (folk, pop, blues) and was the youngest participant in a band contest, where she won her first studio recording.

After a longer musical break, LYAMBIKO moved to Berlin in 1999. There followed the first concerts in the jazz clubs of the city with various lines of and a regular engagement "LYAMBIKO - Strange Fruit" in duo with guitar. Through a recommendation of the singer Mark Murphy, the musician was given the opportunity to perform at the renowned club A-Trane in April 2000.

From April 2001 LYAMBIKO lent her name to the successful quartet, with which she
Concert activity to Germany, later also to the European neighboring countries and the USA. The Boston Globe described LYAMBIKO in 2003 as the most promising jazz singer in a long, long time. Nagel/Heyer released two much-regarded CDs before the quartet switched to Sony BMG in 2005. Already these first albums remained for several weeks in the top ten of the jazz charts. At the major label, LYAMBIKO published a collection of flattering jazz standards with "Lyambiko" and with "Love... And Then" a sugar-free and contemporary reflection on love (Berliner Zeitung). Both productions were each awarded a Jazz Award by the German Phono Association.

Sony Music released the CD "Inner Sense" in February 2007, which, in addition to two covers from pop/rock music, contains only original compositions and was evaluated positively by the press as a successful step towards musical independence: LYAMBIKO has not yet exuded as much charisma as on "Inner Sense" (Jazzthing).

After the tribute to Nina Simone "Saffronia" (2008), which for the first time also aroused great interest in the artist in France, LYAMBIKO's album "Something Like Reality" (Sony Music) was released in 2010, for which she was awarded the Echo Jazz in the category "Singer of the Year national".

As her two most recent albums "Lyambiko Sings Gershwin" (2012) and "Muse" (2015) have shown, the singer loves to spin a red thread through the songs of her albums. Germany's most successful jazz singer was inspired by love letters from the family for the current album "Love Letters". The result is a mixture of own songs with classics like Close Your Eyes, Stardust or Someday My Prince Will Come, which tell a whole new story against the background of the love letters. With great sensitivity, the classic cars and new songs are woven into a coherent whole, which without calculated vintage patina authentically describes the most old-fashioned and yet at the same time most current of all sensations on two different time levels.