The classically trained, young Hungarian singer, Rozina Pátkai found her true voice as a jazz artist. For the past three years she has been thrilling fans with her bossa nova infused compositions, earning honors at numerous competitions, Jazz and Fringe festivals.
On her second album, Rozina Pátkai - a Hungarian singer renowned for her highly unique renditions of Bossa Nova classics – is expanding her artistic repertoire to include a selection of new original songs which, although still rooted in authentic Brazilian music, will depart from the traditional form by infusing the genre with elements from jazz, pop and even progressive music.
With instrumental improvisations and exhilaratingly naïve melodies replete in catchy hooks, the dynamics promise to be anything but predictable.
Since the songs themselves are a multicultural celebration of the many unexplored possibilities latent within Bossa Nova and rely on the tradition as more of a launching pad into the contemporary than a nostalgic look into its past, the lyrics are a collection of Portuguese, Spanish and English poems respectively written by Zsófia Bàn, Jane Tyson Clement, Giovanni Pintaude, Ádám Szabó, Rory Winston and the legendary Garcia Lorca. Produced by Márton Fenyvesi @ TomTom Studio.
AWARDS
2017 Independent Music Awards, Best Jazz with Vocals Album for Paraíso na Terra
2017 Fonogram Hungarian Music Award Nomination for Best Jazz Album of the Year (HU)
2015 Independent Music Awards (USA), Best Latin Song References Europe.
2014 Winner of Independent Music Awards, Best Vocal Jazz Song (USA)
2014 Nominee at Independent Music Awards 2014 Jazz Song, Latin Album, Jazz with Vocals category (USA)
2013 Independent Music Awards, People’s Voice Award in Jazz Song Category (USA)
2013 Made in New York Jazz Competition 1st Arrangement category
2013 Made in New York Jazz Competition Top5 Solo Vocal category
2012 Jazz Voices 2012, Top12, Klaipeda (Lithuania)
2012 Sell-out Show Laurel, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, (Scotland)
2012 EuropaFest Jazz Combo Competition Top10, Bucharest (Romania)
2012 Public Prize at Veszprém Street Music Festival, (Hungary)
2011 Budapest Festival Fringe, Jury’s Award, Hungary
2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Sell-out Show Laurel (Scotland)
