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World Star of World Music
Márta Sebestyén
World Star of World Music
Genres: Folk, International Music, Pop
 
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The Hungarian folk diva Márta Sebestyén rose to prominence as part of a folk revival in Budapest during the '70s. Musicians and fans would congregate at a place called a táncház ("dance house"), and thi...  more »

     
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All Artists: Márta Sebestyén
Title: World Star of World Music
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Hungaroton
Original Release Date: 10/10/2000
Re-Release Date: 10/17/2000
Album Type: Import
Genres: Folk, International Music, Pop
Styles: Traditional Folk, Europe, Eastern Europe
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 675754286620

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The Hungarian folk diva Márta Sebestyén rose to prominence as part of a folk revival in Budapest during the '70s. Musicians and fans would congregate at a place called a táncház ("dance house"), and this term eventually came to mean the entire movement. Sebestyén was always as much a musicologist as a singer and discovered many of her favorite tunes in the field, but the beauty of the voice overwhelms everything else. Her folkloric mezzo-soprano would be of alarming purity if not leavened by her ability to channel the lives of simple people living in another place and time. The present compilation covers her career from 1976 through the 1980s. It includes material recorded with three different bands and her most famous track of all, the eerie, sad a cappella love song "Szerelem, Szerelem (Love, Love)," from the soundtrack to The English Patient. --Christina Roden

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CD Reviews

Mixing the good with the bad
John Immel | 05/11/2001
(3 out of 5 stars)

"marta's voice is atmospheric with notes of sad tension that become a motion. but on this album some of the folk songs are plain."