Eva Kurowski

Eva Kurowski (* 1965 in Oberhausen ) is a German jazz musician and singer.

Life

Kurowskis father Walter is a jazz musician, playing in many clubs in the Ruhr, (K -14 in Oberhausen, Blue Note in Eisenheim ), so that his daughter was constantly surrounded as a child of jazz. From 1982, Kurowski himself sang and learned to know many musicians, including their sponsors Helge Schneider. In 1983, she was with him and Uwe Lyko regularly on stage.

In Stangenfieber, Helge Schneider's first short film, she sang the theme music and played the second lead role. By working on this film Kurowski met the filmmaker he know and Decorated in its Mülheim Film Club 69, the opening act. Under the leadership of Alfred Edel, she worked with in television broadcasts.

In 1992, Kurowski " Eva her band " with Christian Brock Meier (piano ), Dieter Stein ( bass) and Mike Goshen (drums). Together with pianist Martin Scholz, she was a duo go. Followed in 1997 recordings for the Tim Isfort Orchestra and Blixa Bargeld. Kurowski in 2002 published her first CD: Rich without money with altered band line (HC Petzoldt (p ), Norbert Hotz ( b ) and Boris Biebl (dr ) ). It was produced by Helge Schneider.

Her book appeared Avanti Popoloch 2008 2012 followed God lubricates no sandwiches. A childhood between Lenin, jazz and liverwurst.

Music

Kurowski writes music and lyrics itself is based on a classic, often playful jazz sound. Your written from a female perspective emphasizes texts draw from the everyday life of the Ruhr area and move between pop songs, children's songs and jazz songs. Even some of the Ruhr German translated jazz standards belong to the repertoire. From the classic The Girl from Ipanema is eg The woman from Castrop -Rauxel.

Prizes and awards

  • 2001 Comedy Carl Price
  • 2011 The Hunger cloth ( Artist Price )

Discography

  • Empire without money (2002, Roof - Music)

Works

  • Poems Audiobook ( soundtrack) by A. J. Weigoni. Joan Schmidt, Director. Eva Kurowski & AJ Weigoni - Recitation & Mariana Rother as Lady Nada. NRW Art Foundation, 2008, ISBN 3-930559-63-3
  • Avanti Popoloch - A socialist youth in the Ruhr (2008, Assoverlag )
  • God lubricates no sandwiches: A childhood between Lenin, jazz and liverwurst (2012, Rowohlt )
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