Júlia Kozáková
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The members of the band Manusha (People) are professional musicians. The music project had been initiated by the Slovak singer Julia Kozakova; the musicians are Lubomir Gaspar on cimbalom, Viliam Didias on violin, Vojtech “Belu” Botos on viola and Jan Rigo on double-bass. In 2022, with the support of the Fund for Development of the National Minorities’ Culture in SR, and The Bratislava Self-Governing Region, the band released the album with the same name. The album presents 10 songs – all of them are the traditional Romani songs, played in arrangements by Manusha.
In 2022, the Documentation and Information Centre of the Romani Culture began to document the Romani cimbalom bands, especially those which carry on the family musical tradition.
Júlia Kozáková is a singer and a leading person of the musical project Manusha. She studied ethnomusicology and social anthropology. She is also active in the education of youth in the field of music and singing. The profile interview.
recorded: 01. 08. 2022
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Slovak Júlia Kozáková internal general audience
