Márta Sebestyén

Márta Sebestyen [ ma ː rtɒ ʃɛbɛʃce ː n] ( born August 19, 1957 in Budapest) is a Hungarian folk song singer.

Her mother, the folk song collector Ilona Farkas, was a student of Zoltán Kodály. Márta Sebestyen said to have been in early childhood everything they heard nachgesungen, even before she could speak. At the age of six years now, a record was taken with her. After the conclusion of the Budapest school, she was accepted at the Budapest Academy of Art, she was studying but in 1975, in order to have more time for singing.

Márta Sebestyen performs regularly with the folk music ensemble Muzsikás. On their repertoire folk songs can be found in almost all Hungarian-speaking regions, including songs from Somogy and Transylvania ( Transylvania, ungar Erdély ), but they also sings Yiddish, South Slav and Roma songs. In Hungary, it is generally well known and highly respected because of their tireless and enthusiastic commitment to the preservation of Hungarian folksongs. In order to preserve the old songs and ways of their homeland from oblivion, they made ​​numerous research trips, settled sing of old people, took on this or then wrote it down in note form.

For world music project Big Blue Ball by Peter Gabriel and Karl Wallinger Márta Sebestyen contributed to the composed also of her song River.

She became internationally known through the vocal song Szerelem, szerelem ( " Love, Love " ), a Hungarian folk song that she sang The English Patient in the title song of the film. In the film, it appears as "historic" gramophone recording what the piece with artificial scratches noises was covered.

The award-winning a Grammy album Boheme by Deep Forest it is to hear Marta 's Song with the ballad.

She is divorced and has two sons.

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Discography - Selection

Márta Sebestyen has worked on about 90 LPs or CDs or received (as of early 2009 )