Alma Alma Naidu

• 1 Just a Word 03:53
• 2 Hold on to Me 03:58
• 3 Something ´bout the Rain 04:37
• 4 And so It Goes 04:47
• 5 Illusion 03:33
• 6 Interlude 01:18
• 7 Silence Plays Your Song 03:40
• 8 Heart Pace 05:15
• 9 Walberla 04:05
• 10 Wondering 04:13
• 11 White Tulip 04:23
• 12 Another Kind of Love 04:46
• Total Runtime 48:28

Info for Alma

A unique talent with a remarkable voice: Germany's Jazzthing magazine praised her "delicate, wonderfully clear voice with absolutely perfect intonation".

The Munich-based singer, composer and lyricist Alma Naidu is an artist such as one rarely finds.

Renowned drummer and producer Wolfgang Haffner recognized her talent immediately; he discovered Alma for himself in 2019 and featured the Munich native on his album "Kind of Tango." "When I heard Alma for the first time at a jam session in early 2019, I was immediately inspired by her musicality and her way of performing on stage," says Haffner. " Alma is a very special talent with a strong musical voice of her own."

With Alma now comes the promising debut on the Leopard Records label. Recorded in Bonn during the pandemic (November 2020, March and April 2021) and produced by Haffner with guests Dominic Miller, Nils Landgren, Simon Oslender and others, this debut work of the 25-year-old Naidu could just as well bear the title: A STAR IS BORN.

One of the greatest singers on the German scene" (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

"Delicate, beautifully clear voice with absolutely perfect intonation" (Jazzthing Magazin)

Alma Naidu, vocals, backing vocals
Simon Oslender, keyboards
Claus Fischer, bass
Wolfgang Haffner, drums
Liselotte Östblom, backing vocals

Recorded and mixed by Klaus Genuit at Hansahaus Studios Bonn
Produced by Wolfgang Haffner

Alma Naidu
is a singer, composer and lyricist based in Munich, Germany. She was described as 'one of the most promising singers on the German scene' by Süddeutsche Zeitung, the magazine Jazzthing praised her 'delicate, wonderfully clear voice with absolutely perfect intonation'. The renowned drummer and producer Wolfgang Haffner recognized her talent immediately; he discovered Alma in 2019 and introduced her on his album 'Kind of Tango' (ACT, 2020).

After studying jazz singing at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich from 2016, she then spent a year at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she studied with the renowned singer and ECM artist Norma Winstone.

At the age of just 25, she has won at the Gasteig competition, Jugend jazzt, the Kurt Mass Jazz Award, this year's BMW Welt Young Artist Jazz Award and lately the Bavarian Prize for Emerging Artists.

After delighting the audience with her band at performances in Munich and all over Germany as well as live stream performances during the Corona crisis in 2020 and 2021, the singer is now starting to release her own original music.

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