A promising debut! In the primal scream of flamenco singing, the Dutch singer Luna Zegers found the way to express her grief. Within six years she lost her father, sister and mother to fatal illnesses. The young man in her twenties first started studying jazz singing at the Amsterdam conservatory, where she graduated cum laude in 2010. Zegers then studied South Indian singing in Bangalore. There an
… LP by flamenco singer : his raw performance touched her deeply. In Spain, most flamenco singers come from a true flamenco family, but Zegers was the very first non-Spanish to be hired to study flamenco singing at the prestigious ESMUC conservatory in Barcelona. She graduated there in 2015 with a graduation performance Entre Dos Mundos (Between Two Worlds), which was very unusual for a singer. You can hear these self-written songs on her eponymous debut album. In passionate and emotional flamenco music, Zegers expresses emotions such as sadness but also joyful joie de vivre. In a subtle way she adds her jazz background to this - in harmony and choice of instruments. (SvdP)more
