Artist: Sevara Nazarkhan
Genre(s):
Folk
Discography:
Yol Bolsin
Year:
Tracks: 11
Sevara Nazarkhan is an Uzbek pop asterisk world Health Organization stands out for her expert handling of not only contemporary styles merely Central Asian folk music as well. Her subordination and function of the Uzbek doutar (a two-stringed plucked shepherd's instrument dating back to the 15th c) establishes Nazarkhan as an accomplished worldly concern musician as considerably as a pop esthesis. Sevara was brought up by two musically realized parents, her father of the Church a classically trained vocalizer and her mother a music educator well-versed on string instruments. Sevara fatigued pentad age poring over Uzbek folk music at the Tashkent State Conservatory 'tween 1998 and 2003. During that time she performed with a mixed bag of local groups, amassing something of a cult following. Her original compositions were a hit passim Uzbekistan's subway system urban culture, heard on local wireless and illegal mixtapes. Nazarkhan's debut recording was released by the Calabash tag. The self-produced record, entitled Gozal Dema, earned her a BBC World Music Award and an external repute. The world music festival racing circuit opened up, in the lead to international performances and widespread recognition end-to-end Europe. Her show at the WOMAD fete in 2000 introduced her music to humanity music mogul Peter Gabriel, wHO signed her to his Real World tag for a 2003 acquittance, Yol Bolsin. Her seamless desegregation of ancient orchestration and repertoire with modern technology and esthetics caught the attention of listeners global. A second record for Calabash continued to develop the artist's schism personality, trading turntables for oud and tambour. Nazarkhan resharpened her urban edge for her Real World followup acquittance, Sen, which hit shelves in 2007 and went at once the crown of World Music Charts Europe.
