Winner of the 2022 Charles Cros Academy Prize for her second album, Varka, French-Greek singer Dafné Kritharas invites us on a musical odyssey between the lands of Byzantium and the shores of the Orient, accompanied by musicians from here and elsewhere. A journey that sings of exile, love, and joy with a pure and heartbreaking voice.
Each of Dafné Kritharas's concerts is a bewitching interlude. A self-taught musician, curious about all genres and rhythms, she creates a musical landscape open to classical, jazz, folk, and Greek, Bosnian, Armenian, and Kurdish melodies, which she revives with a captivating voice, each in her own way: feverish, gentle, or lyrical. Sometimes in French, sometimes in Armenian or Greek, she re-enchants the mysterious tales and traditional legends of the shores of the Aegean Sea, or even invents her own stories, expressing melancholy as well as darker and more magical figures in an eruptive song. She infuses her compositions with an emotional power linked to the blues of exile. The one shared with her Iranian, Armenian, Kurdish, Greek, Azeri, Albanian and French musicians, all met in Paris, with whom she testifies to the convergence of music and stories. All universal and timeless.
Languages
- French
