Nikoletta Szoke was born in Zalaegerszeg (Hungary) in 1983. She was only four years old when her family moved to Budapest and started her studies there. Although she had been born into one of the Hungarian gipsy musical dynasties (her father, Sándor Szoke is a noted cimbalom player), she didn’t start learning music until the age of 18. She was accepted at a conservatory and became a student of the noted jazz singer, Gábor Winand in 2002. She started to perform right after her first singing lesson. After three and a half years of studying and performing she entered for the Shure Montreux Jazz Voice Competition held at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival in 2005. The competition was open to jazz singers under the age of 30 from all around the world. Nikoletta had been invited and was the winner of the first prize and the public prize, too. Chairing the jury was Barbara Hendricks and Randy Crawford was her deputy. Nikoletta started to take classical singing lessons as well in 2005 as a student of Júlia Bikfalvy, who had coached the soprano diva Andrea Rost to international stardom. In January 2006 she took part at the conference of the International Associaton for Jazz Education (IAJE Conference) in New York, and she performed both at the New York Hilton and Dizzy’s Club at the Lincoln Center. In 2006 she won the Lakatos Ablakos Dezso Hungarian state jazz scholarship which is given to three young Hungarian musicians every year. Since the competition she has been pursuing an increasingly successful performing career. Her debut album, Golden Earrings was released by the Hungarian company, Gramy Records in October 2008. In January 2009 she also signed a contract with the Japanese label, Atelier Sawano, the latter launching in Japan "A Song For You", Niki's second album on 17th of the same month.
happy SUN day Nikoletta Szoke ... sit back and enjoy, get your head rockin to jazz, find the point of peak, swim in the infinite creek ... ;)
... a poet being from another, riding a photon to someother ... putting some butter on my seven stroke roll, and too many spanish nuts on my soul ... ;)
pearadiddul and a happy new year Nikoletta Szoke ... walk me into the dark, let me see only what i sense, turn the light on ancient treasures, touch me as i spark ... ;)
... fell in Love with everyone, Rhythm knocking on my door, ... the springs were squeaky, pikyurdamn clothes up off the floor ;)
... in our cozy little room, sentenced words in a pending doom, police were the first to question me, all about stolen stewart licks you see ... ;) ... pearadiddul and a happy new year !!!
Mursel Isik is a recording artist from Istanbul, Turkey who puts his musical talents to work to support the inspiring poetry from his side of the world. We are fortunate to bring you a one on one interview with this recording artists, here on Inkless Magazine. Happ new Year...
Dropping in to wish you the most beautiful and awesome new years ever. I hope This year brings you everything you have ever dreamed of... Mürsel Işık Sakın Üzülme Video Clip
... Happy Holidays Nikoletta Szoke ... i like mai tai with no tea, my gold, nice and old, suites me just fine, no shoes or socks as the days unfold ... is that you honey ;)
... flip things if at first they don't succeed, unplant the seed and water the flow, push the ning into the light, good the day and sun the night. ;)
... slice up my thoughts, intersperse them with yours, first yours, then mine, then yours, then mine ... add music and repeat until satisfied ... ;)
... build a fortress around your smarts, fight the trivial battles the gutless invent, for they are only pests on your soul, as your destiny is your goal ... ;)
hello Nikoletta Szoke ... for the sky was the color of play, and the land was infested with unspoken ... i saw the eye of the sailor, as i started out my day ...... ;)
... the feathers of stone in my mind, the eagle on the fence, the glow from your rush, it's all so intense ... ;)
... hello Nikoletta Szoke ... voices trapped in halls of passion, earning and learning to see, speak to me in rhymes and rhythms, hold me down, but let me be ... ;)
... flying under the radar they won't notice you, unless you toot your horn leavin unpalatable residue ... ;)
happy SUN day Nikoletta Szoke ... oh deer, rapidly returning well we'll see, ... if i make up my mind, wednesday would be fine, ... we are, i see, to be ;)
