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Andrea Gerak
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"Madarka, madarka (Little Birdie, Little Birdie)"
20 tracks
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20 tracks
running time 35:00
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Andrea Gerak
NEWS
May 18 2008
The Sweden-based Petrás Incze János Csángó Foundation is holding a charity event at the Hungarian House in Stockholm. All the benefit from the concert will go to support social and cultural needs of Csángó Hungarians in Moldva.
Time: 24th May 2008
Place: Magyar Ház - Ungerska Huset (Bromma, Lövĺsvägen 12, Stora Mossen subway station, green line towards Hässelby) Map
15:00-tól 17:00 dance house for children (Hungarian folk dances)
17:00-tól kb. 19:00-ig Csángó Night Concert
19:30-tól till about Midnight dance house for adults (Hungarian folk dances)
Entrance fee: adulsts 80.-SEK, children 30.-SEK
Excellent Hungarian, Japanese, Indian, Polish, Swedish and Latvian artists will perform at the concert of folk music and classical music:
● Barozda (Csongor Simó violin, Lajos Toró viola, József Simó double bass, hurdy-gurdy, koboz): traditional music from Transylvania and Moldva,
● Barna Both (piano) performs his own compositions ("The Little Prince" and "Nocturne"),
● Andrea Gerák Csángó folk songs from Moldva,
● Japanese students of Sonoko Kase play piano,
● Lakshmikanth (tabla, voice) and Saikira (indiai harmonium): classical Indian music,
● Magnus Smedman Band (Swedish bagpipe and hurdy-gurdy): Swedish folk music,
● Milda Zigure and Ineta Zigure Latvian artists (violin and piano)
● Kinga Práda Sagvik (flute),
● György Stuber (Hungarian bagpipe, Moldva Csángó bagpipe, hurdy-gurdy and flute): folk music from Transylvania and Moldva, first ever Csángó bagpipe stage performance in music history!,
● Zsuzsanna Gaal, Gabriella Dybowski, Thomas Svanfeldt és György Stuber Hungarian folk dances.
Dance house music will be played by Barozda and György Stuber.
Donations can be sent to Foundation Petrás Incze János Csángó Alapítvány (Postgiro: 636 25 57 – 8 Receiver: Csángó Fonden Petrás Incze János)
Thank you in the name of Csángós.
Contact: +46 8 254038
Magyar Ház (Hungarian House) in Stockholm
Apr 12 2008
Fresh concert photos!
Andrea Gerak at Budapest Fringe Festival
Click on the picture to see more
March 14 2008
The recent months were rather eventful for Andrea Gerak: in between joyful travels and performances, medical examinations found cervical cancer with her. The Hungarian singer and her family was struck with the news as a surprise, for Andrea radiates vitality in her closer and broader environ alike. They tried to keep a low profile about it as for the public, one couldn't notice any signs of an illness at the concerts either.
In January, a successful operation was done whereby they removed the affected part in a way that no residue of the disease remained present. Therefore no further medical treatment is needed, only regular check-up.
Recovering, Andrea did not stay idle: she was preparing for her upcoming concerts, with several new songs and gave interviews. For the first time, she speaks about defeting the cancer which is considered dreaded by many:
"To confront the fact of what my illness was, hit me as a huge slap in the face, but I didn't let its pain and shock put me down longer than a moment. I was sure that I would overcome it quickly, because I have so much to do in the world. And in one way or the other, it is still me who is controlling my own body. This incident forced me to do a more thorough self-inspection as well as learn more about how the human body works, for example what does nutrition have to do with cancer or other diseases.
I am encouraging everybody to get the basic information on their own bodies, the physical and mental causes of illnesses and their effective prevention or, when that is needed, handling. And indeed do the necessary steps!
I would like to say thank you for all those who helped me through this difficult period: my family, few friends that knew about it, my doctors (in Stockholm Michael Przedpelski and Margarita Piper, in Budapest Maria Fabian, Peter Lovas, Laszlo Palfalvi - he did the operation - and Peter Lerner) as well as the nurses of Szent Istvan Hospital."
Andrea Gerak was already on stage a few days ago, and at the end of this month she will be heard at the Budapest Fringe Festival where she will take the listener to a mystical trip to different regions of Hungary and faraway lands with acappella folk songs and ethnic electronica versions.
March 9 2008
Yesterday Andrea Gerak performed in Sweden for a Gala Concert celebrating 100th anniversary of the International Womens' Day. The event was a cooproduction between the Embassies of Italy, Hungary and Venezuela, opened by Italy's Ambassador, also attended by the Ambassador of Honduras.
The Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm provided perfect settings for the musical performance.
Andrea's acapella Hungarian folk songs enchanted the audience, as well as the arias sung by Venezuelan born soprano Gabriela Gonzales-Toledo, accompanied by Anders Wadenberg on piano.
"It was a wonderful evening with a great audience and I enjoyed being on both sides on the stage: it's a pure joy to sing in this auditorium with excellent acoustics and atmosphere, just as well as to listen.
My thanks go to all those who made this experience possible.
I found a new favorite place in Stockholm where I would attend future concerts very gladly as a listener or performer." - Andrea Gerak
The two singers after the gala
Feb 14 2008
Bird, flying high - two-page article with Andrea Gerak in the February issue of MIX Magazin.
You can meet Andrea's husband and find out about some of her other favorites as well.
Aug 31 2006
Interview
March 23 2006
Today: The latest Andrea Gerak Newsletter is featured on the cover page of Music Industry News Network
March 20 2006
Editorial article in the Hungarian magazine of quality music
The Sweden-based Petrás Incze János Csángó Foundation is holding a charity event at the Hungarian House in Stockholm. All the benefit from the concert will go to support social and cultural needs of Csángó Hungarians in Moldva.
Time: 24th May 2008
Place: Magyar Ház - Ungerska Huset (Bromma, Lövĺsvägen 12, Stora Mossen subway station, green line towards Hässelby) Map
15:00-tól 17:00 dance house for children (Hungarian folk dances)
17:00-tól kb. 19:00-ig Csángó Night Concert
19:30-tól till about Midnight dance house for adults (Hungarian folk dances)
Entrance fee: adulsts 80.-SEK, children 30.-SEK
Excellent Hungarian, Japanese, Indian, Polish, Swedish and Latvian artists will perform at the concert of folk music and classical music:
● Barozda (Csongor Simó violin, Lajos Toró viola, József Simó double bass, hurdy-gurdy, koboz): traditional music from Transylvania and Moldva,
● Barna Both (piano) performs his own compositions ("The Little Prince" and "Nocturne"),
● Andrea Gerák Csángó folk songs from Moldva,
● Japanese students of Sonoko Kase play piano,
● Lakshmikanth (tabla, voice) and Saikira (indiai harmonium): classical Indian music,
● Magnus Smedman Band (Swedish bagpipe and hurdy-gurdy): Swedish folk music,
● Milda Zigure and Ineta Zigure Latvian artists (violin and piano)
● Kinga Práda Sagvik (flute),
● György Stuber (Hungarian bagpipe, Moldva Csángó bagpipe, hurdy-gurdy and flute): folk music from Transylvania and Moldva, first ever Csángó bagpipe stage performance in music history!,
● Zsuzsanna Gaal, Gabriella Dybowski, Thomas Svanfeldt és György Stuber Hungarian folk dances.
Dance house music will be played by Barozda and György Stuber.
Donations can be sent to Foundation Petrás Incze János Csángó Alapítvány (Postgiro: 636 25 57 – 8 Receiver: Csángó Fonden Petrás Incze János)
Thank you in the name of Csángós.
Contact: +46 8 254038
Magyar Ház (Hungarian House) in Stockholm
Apr 12 2008
Fresh concert photos!
Andrea Gerak at Budapest Fringe Festival
Click on the picture to see more
March 14 2008
The recent months were rather eventful for Andrea Gerak: in between joyful travels and performances, medical examinations found cervical cancer with her. The Hungarian singer and her family was struck with the news as a surprise, for Andrea radiates vitality in her closer and broader environ alike. They tried to keep a low profile about it as for the public, one couldn't notice any signs of an illness at the concerts either.
In January, a successful operation was done whereby they removed the affected part in a way that no residue of the disease remained present. Therefore no further medical treatment is needed, only regular check-up.
Recovering, Andrea did not stay idle: she was preparing for her upcoming concerts, with several new songs and gave interviews. For the first time, she speaks about defeting the cancer which is considered dreaded by many:
"To confront the fact of what my illness was, hit me as a huge slap in the face, but I didn't let its pain and shock put me down longer than a moment. I was sure that I would overcome it quickly, because I have so much to do in the world. And in one way or the other, it is still me who is controlling my own body. This incident forced me to do a more thorough self-inspection as well as learn more about how the human body works, for example what does nutrition have to do with cancer or other diseases.
I am encouraging everybody to get the basic information on their own bodies, the physical and mental causes of illnesses and their effective prevention or, when that is needed, handling. And indeed do the necessary steps!
I would like to say thank you for all those who helped me through this difficult period: my family, few friends that knew about it, my doctors (in Stockholm Michael Przedpelski and Margarita Piper, in Budapest Maria Fabian, Peter Lovas, Laszlo Palfalvi - he did the operation - and Peter Lerner) as well as the nurses of Szent Istvan Hospital."
Andrea Gerak was already on stage a few days ago, and at the end of this month she will be heard at the Budapest Fringe Festival where she will take the listener to a mystical trip to different regions of Hungary and faraway lands with acappella folk songs and ethnic electronica versions.
March 9 2008
Yesterday Andrea Gerak performed in Sweden for a Gala Concert celebrating 100th anniversary of the International Womens' Day. The event was a cooproduction between the Embassies of Italy, Hungary and Venezuela, opened by Italy's Ambassador, also attended by the Ambassador of Honduras.
The Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm provided perfect settings for the musical performance.
Andrea's acapella Hungarian folk songs enchanted the audience, as well as the arias sung by Venezuelan born soprano Gabriela Gonzales-Toledo, accompanied by Anders Wadenberg on piano.
"It was a wonderful evening with a great audience and I enjoyed being on both sides on the stage: it's a pure joy to sing in this auditorium with excellent acoustics and atmosphere, just as well as to listen.
My thanks go to all those who made this experience possible.
I found a new favorite place in Stockholm where I would attend future concerts very gladly as a listener or performer." - Andrea Gerak
The two singers after the gala
Feb 14 2008
Bird, flying high - two-page article with Andrea Gerak in the February issue of MIX Magazin.
You can meet Andrea's husband and find out about some of her other favorites as well.
Aug 31 2006
Interview
March 23 2006
Today: The latest Andrea Gerak Newsletter is featured on the cover page of Music Industry News Network
March 20 2006
Editorial article in the Hungarian magazine of quality music
March 14
Read my latest Newsletter here
Feb 24 2006
The song Lonely Is The Bird is featured in the "First Line" of the Radio Renascenca of Portugal
Feb 5 2006
Dialogos 3, Spanish blog with the latest news in the New Age/World scene, wrote an article with the title of
ANDREA GERAK the Enigmatic Hungarian Female Voice, Possible Successor of Marta Sebestyen
Spanish: Diálogos3
English: Press page, Musiq Queen, Jazz News, UK Music Review
Hungarian/MAGYAR: Beats, Hangzorro Nagyszinpada, Folder
Feb 2 2006
Featured artist of the week at the Ultimate Band List of ARTISTdirect:
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Enya, Sally Oldfield, Lisa Gerrard, Marta Sebestyen, Katalin Szvorak, Iren Lovasz, Bea Palya -- Andrea Gerak deserves a place in this list.
Why this name?
I was born with this name. The only difference is that in Hungarian, we have the family name first (Gerak), and I would also write it with some special accent.
Do you play live?
Yes I do. At the moment, mostly in Sweden and Hungary, but I am available worldwide.
If I like singing live?
There is nothing better than that - yeah, there is: dancing. I could talk for days about special moments of performing, I did have a few... Shall I tell you about the young girl in Zurich, Switzerland, who was on drugs, and after she was listening to me, wrote this in my Guestbook: "There is hope... Thanks!" Or the old lady who heard me when I was busking somewhere and after 2 years, when I came in the same city, she recognized my voice from a few streets away and just had to find me, because she's been looking forward to hear me again ever since.
I like it best when I do have something to say with my songs, it's an occasion to communicate with the audience, let it be an exhibition opening on a particular theme, a birthday -- or even a funeral. I remember singing in a church for a beautiful young girl who's just left.
These kind of moments show me the great responsibility that we artists have. It's the question of what kind of effect do you want to achieve with a song: will people feel better, or will they feel worse after that they have listened to you? I do like it when they get some nice moments out of my songs.
If I like singing live?
There is nothing better than that - yeah, there is: dancing. I could talk for days about special moments of performing, I did have a few... Shall I tell you about the young girl in Zurich, Switzerland, who was on drugs, and after she was listening to me, wrote this in my Guestbook: "There is hope... Thanks!" Or the old lady who heard me when I was busking somewhere and after 2 years, when I came in the same city, she recognized my voice from a few streets away and just had to find me, because she's been looking forward to hear me again ever since.
I like it best when I do have something to say with my songs, it's an occasion to communicate with the audience, let it be an exhibition opening on a particular theme, a birthday -- or even a funeral. I remember singing in a church for a beautiful young girl who's just left.
These kind of moments show me the great responsibility that we artists have. It's the question of what kind of effect do you want to achieve with a song: will people feel better, or will they feel worse after that they have listened to you? I do like it when they get some nice moments out of my songs.
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
Definitely! Gives much more freedom to the artists to create and promote their music, and also to the listeners to discover much broader possibilities to find what they like. It just has to be ethical.
But nothing ever will replace live concerts, I mean LIVE, singing and playing right then and right there.
But nothing ever will replace live concerts, I mean LIVE, singing and playing right then and right there.
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
Maybe, it depends...
Band History:
For the Press version and more details, please check out my official website.
http://www.andreagerak.com/bio.html
My first main singing role was in the kindergarden where I was the poor girl who finally got married to the prince. Isn't it cute? Ha-ha... A few years later, at 10, I performed a lot with the school choir, and discovered the folk dance group in my home town, near to the Slovakian border in Hungary.
From that on, that was my life: rehearsals, sweat and sore muscles, workshops, camps, dance houses where you can sing and dance for the whole night to the best bands playing live, many times I was teaching others, also children, how to sing or dance this special stuff, local performances, tours and festivals in Hungary and in Europe, stage, backstage, dressing rooms, and incredibly lot of fun, fun, fun, the best fun I could possibly have.
Yet with all this, it took me some time to decide what I want to do in my life. Since I realized that I can make the greatest effects on others with my voice, I am looking for the best ways to develop all what I want to share and reach as many people as I can.
All what I am now and what I have achieved so far, I did it without any manager, label or agency, only with the understanding and help of my family, many friends and fans. And of course, all those professionals I am in contact with or I learned from: fellow artists, web supports, seminar lecturers, etc.
http://www.andreagerak.com/bio.html
My first main singing role was in the kindergarden where I was the poor girl who finally got married to the prince. Isn't it cute? Ha-ha... A few years later, at 10, I performed a lot with the school choir, and discovered the folk dance group in my home town, near to the Slovakian border in Hungary.
From that on, that was my life: rehearsals, sweat and sore muscles, workshops, camps, dance houses where you can sing and dance for the whole night to the best bands playing live, many times I was teaching others, also children, how to sing or dance this special stuff, local performances, tours and festivals in Hungary and in Europe, stage, backstage, dressing rooms, and incredibly lot of fun, fun, fun, the best fun I could possibly have.
Yet with all this, it took me some time to decide what I want to do in my life. Since I realized that I can make the greatest effects on others with my voice, I am looking for the best ways to develop all what I want to share and reach as many people as I can.
All what I am now and what I have achieved so far, I did it without any manager, label or agency, only with the understanding and help of my family, many friends and fans. And of course, all those professionals I am in contact with or I learned from: fellow artists, web supports, seminar lecturers, etc.
Your influences?
First of all Hungarian folk, traditional music from different regions of the historical Hungary, which has included, before World War I, Transylvania, Moldavia, parts of Slovakia, Croatia and Yugoslavia. In that part of the Europe, we have a very fortunate mixture of cultures, giving me a big variety of melodies, performers and styles to choose from. To name a few: instrumental and vocal gypsy music, dances from the Balkan, songs that were sung only by girls of certain villages, Marta Sebestyen, Bela Halmos, Muzsikas and a lot of bands playing authentical folk, but I would also listen to folk rock or new age.
Besides that, I grew up also with 70's & 80's pop, classic rock and Vangelis, Mike Oldfield, and extremely good Hungarian artists and bands.
Besides that, I grew up also with 70's & 80's pop, classic rock and Vangelis, Mike Oldfield, and extremely good Hungarian artists and bands.
Favorite spot?
Budapest
Equipment used:
My voice.
Anything else...?
I am very grateful to all the people that supported me in any ways through the years.
Thank you!
Thank you!
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