...mostly doing all the recordings at my home computer - thanks to the Audacity recording system. Playbacks have many different sources. If any other background is needed, I take my darbooka which I bought in the Arab town of 'Akko (Israel) and play it for me.
My greatest inspiration was, is and will always be the great late world music star Ofra Haza who gave me the impulse to try out my voice and search for its roots. This gave my voice a new chance to live on, it helped me to discover its abilities and to work on courageously with it so that at the end I've no fear of performing and showing what I was gifted with. In loving memory of her.
Influences
Ofra Haza, Noa, traditional Jewish/Yemenite/other Arabic influences, Israeli pop, choir experience in Europe
Sounds Like
Ofra Haza; Shoshana Dhamari; Noa; traditional Jewish & Yemenite singing
The world has many gates. All those gates may lead you into spaces of another place and time, dream-like new worlds of which you probably never heard before. They do not necessarily enlighten you but they'll surely amaze, simply by the fact of their existence.
These worlds are everywhere: it proves how versatile we all are.
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This is the main idea for Haya's music and work.
Haya [Kháhya] K. is a 16-year-old girl of Jewish (Israeli), Yemenite and Russian origin.
Being brought up in a music-loving home and taking piano lessons and vocal training since childhood, Haya was always familiar with music and singing. She participated in many musical activities during early schooltime and sang in different choirs. At the age of 13 she re-discovered her Oriental roots and began to collect traditional Jewish and Yemenite songs and melodies.
While living with her parents in Germany for about 9 years and learning at school, Haya joined a youth choir of the local Jewish community, "Voices in Peace". With them, she took part at concert tours to the neighbouring cities and participated in an Israel exchange with another community choir. Her solo performances increased as well. "Voices in Peace" already released their first album and are working on the second one.
In her private time, Haya listens mostly to traditional music of both Jewish and Arab origin and to Oriental pop. While the repertoire of her choir contains of songs sung in English, Russian, Spanish, Hebrew and Yiddish, Haya sings on her own mostly in Hebrew and English.
She's learning Arabic and French and speaks fluently German, English, Hebrew and Russian.
Oriental music and singers like the late Ofra Haza and Shoshana Dhamari, both of Yemenite-Jewish origin, influenced her singing style, it can be identified in Haya's clear, vibrant mezzo soprano.
Due to the lack of appropriate acoustic and recording abilities, Haya mostly sings acapella or combined with playing on the darbooka - an Oriental drum ("Be Kherem Teyman"). She likes singing popular Hebrew songs ("Metziut Acheret") or traditional melodies.
Shalom meine kleine, das letzte Lied kannte ich noch gar nicht, wow da hast du dir aber viel mühe gegeben, ich hoffe du machst noch mehr. Aber so wie ich dich kenne, kann ich mich auf dich verlassen. :-) Nasima
Haya [Kháhya] K. is a 16-year-old girl of Jewish (Israeli), Yemenite and Russian origin.
