Dunja Knebl

Dunja Knebl Was Born In Zagreb. She Has Lived In The USA Indonesia And Russia. After Participating In "Viet-Rock" In 1968 A Production By The Zagreb Student Experimental Theatre She Decided That Singing And Guitar Playing Would Remain Her Hobby. After Completing Her Studies Of English And Russian At The Zagreb Faculty Of Philosophy She Worked Most Of Her Life As A Translator And Language Teacher And She Sang Folk Songs To Her Friends. MUSICAL BIOGRAPHY My Life Changed Completely When I Discovered That Thousands Of Folk Songs In Croatia Are Not Sung Any More. I Began Performing Professionally In 1993 And Since Then I Have Recorded About A Hundred Folk Songs Most Of Which Are On My 6 Albums. Besides Singing For Diverse Audiences All My Activities Are Aimed At Making Traditional Croatian Folk Music More Popular Especially Among The Young. The Songs I Arranged And Recorded May Also Be Heard In Various Theatre Performances And I Have Two Musical Performances Of My Own. Most Of All I Like To Record Songs I Have Never Heard. I Study The Many Books Containing Notes And Lyrics Collected By Croatian Music Ethnologists During The First Half Of The 20th Century Make Arrangements For The Voice And Guitar And Then Record The Songs With Multi-Instrumentalists Mateo Martinoviľ Mladen Ékalec . Even Though I Have Never Aimed At Making My Music More Commercial I Have Been Able To Continue With My Work Promoting Traditional Folk Music In Croatia And Reinterpreting It In A Manner Different In Comparison To The Traditional Tambouritza Oriented Majority. My Audience Does Not Belong To A Particular Age Group. My Repertory Is Very Wide And Now Includes Several Hundred Croatian Folk Songs Alone. I Have Performed In Many Countries. In 1997 I Was Nominated For The Croatian Porin Award As Best Female Singer. The 1999 Edition Of WORLD MUSIC The Rough Guide VOLUME I Recommends My Album "Iz Globline Srca". Since Then Two Albums Have Been Released And The More Recent One Titled "Da Sam Barem Guska" Includes Traditional Folk Songs From Some Of The Countries I Have Lived In. read less