Juhász Réka

Juhász Réka“Folk music surrounds me like a safe shield. I grew up with it, so it became in effect my second mother tongue. I belong to those fortunate ones in whose lives this refined form of expression has existed right alongside speaking. I myself have often experienced the magical powers of musical notes, songs and uttered words. It was once firmly believed that human relationships, the weather, and even the supernatural world could be influenced by singing. A song is solace, a message, a voice expressing—to gods and humans alike—one’s intimate desires, and the realities that are impossible to put into words.”

Juhász Réka was born in Budapest in 1983. Since childhood, she has been surrounded by master culture-bearers, and she feels right at home in the dance house movement thanks to her father, Juhász Zoltán, a folk musician and ethnomusicologist. In addition to singing, she also gardon, an ancient percussive instrument similar to the cello. She is most interested in the ways folk songs and traditional singing affect people today, making their lives more beautiful and complete.

Along with performing on stage, Réka also leads group sessions and teaches music at summer camps, as audience involvement in singing is important to her. She collects folks songs and folk music in Hungary and Transylvania. In 2009, Réka was honored with the title of Junior Master of Folk Art. Her forst solo album is “Dreams of the Righteous.”

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