Nani Vazana is a millennial Ladino songwriter, she won the Eurovision for minority languages (Liet International) 2024 representing the Netherlands with her original song Una Segunda Piel (A Second Skin).
MEKLIT IS PRONOUNCED MUH-KLEET AND RHYMES WITH BEAT
Meklit Hadero is an award winning Ethiopian-American vocalist/composer and former refugee. Her music has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, NPR and more. Meklit is a NatGeo Explorer, TED Sr. Fellow, and former Artist-in-Residence at Harvard. She has been commissioned to create music by Lincoln Center, and collaborated with Kronos Quartet, Andrew Bird and Preservation Hall Jazz Band. She is host of Movement, a new radio series, podcast and live show exploring the intersection of migration and music, which airs as a nationally syndicated feature on PRX's The World to 2.5 million monthly listeners.
“the hottest Irish acoustic band on the planet.” IRISH VOICE (USA)
“anybody who listens can’t help but find them contagious.” BILLBOARD (USA)
‘Lúnasa reigns as the new Celtic royalty’ BOSTON HERALD (USA)
The ensemble Alash is a throat singing band from Tuva, Russia, that performs traditional Tuvan music with some non-traditional influences.
“It’s one of the most astonishing sounds a human body can produce.” — Washington Post
“Alash … pretty much knocked everybody’s socks off.” — Pegasus News, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
“The Tuvans were astonishing in various styles of khöömei (throat singing), from frightening growls to otherworldly overtone whistles … Alash's many songs about ‘fast horses and pretty girls’ were pleasingly punctuated by equine snorts and neighs from their horse-head fiddles. The result came close to magic …”
— Songlines
