Tuesday, June 9, 2009


Palya Bea. Wow! I can't believe that after sleeping for 13 hours and eating 4 Turo Rudis, on my first night in Hungary I got to go to a Palya Bea concert. Palya Bea is a Hungarian Roma (Roma is the PC expression for gypsy) singer who mostly does world music. World music happens when at least two or more different cultures blend in the melody, rythm, language or feeling of a particular music. Unbelievably satisfying for my cosmopolitan ego. So, she did a mix of Hungarian, Romanian, Roma and Jewish, Spanish, Greek, and different other eastern blends. She created an intimitaly powerful atmosphere. Beautiful voice and an empowered woman singing barefoot about lives of women from how to get the unattainable man, through how to make babies, and how to give birth to babies to how to raise a strong woman. She has some recordings on youtube, if you are interested.

2 comments:

  1. Beautiful! I LOVE Palya Bea. I'm so glad you got to go. That must've been a great experience.
    Miss you guys:(

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  2. I wish you could have been there. By the way, I remembered how the Hungarian audience is different. They are clapping soooo long after a good production that the singer or band comes out and does some extra songs. It happened to Palya Bea, too. One of the nicest songs was one of these extras called Rozsa (Rose). I love that song and hope to be able to sing it one day.

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