RIDINA AHMEDOVA

She was born in Prague. Her father is Sudanese, her mother is half Czech and half Russian Jew. She lived in Bohemia until she was 4 and then for ten years in Oran, the largest port in Algeria. She has been back in the CzechRepublic since 1988. The first musical style that she sang in professionally was jazz - playing jazz standards for several years around various clubs. It was a great school for practicing improvisation, intonation and her overall musical readiness. Afterwards she felt a need to seek a more authentic expression in the less explored landscapes of sound. She worked with Tomas Dvořák/Floex on the Pocustone CD and live in the Floex project. In 2003, she decided to do what she had long dreamed of: to try going on stage alone. She won Discovery of the Year in the Next Wave awards for the solo project Hlasokraj (Voicescape), combining read more...