About Sena

There are mutliple female artists with the name SENA: 1. The Kurdish singer Sena (regard the pictures and profile of Hozan Sena) 2. The Hungarian-Ghanaian singer Dagadu Veronika Sena (regard the pictures) 3. The German singer Jeanette Mühlmann, called Sena (listen to the streamable album below) 4. The Austrian-Croatian singer Sena Jurinac 5. A Japanese singer (look here: 瀬名) 1. Sena's birth in the Kurdish region of Dersim / Western Kurdistan (today's Tunceli in Eastern Turkey) includes only a small part of the former language and cultural area; the music is not only everywhere in daily life present, there is also a central mainly part of the spiritual world of the Alawite dominated population. In the mythology of the people of Dersim - represent a living for centuries in secluded mountainous and largely pre-Islamic culture, its religious references sun, water springs, rocks, mountain peaks and inner retreat by (rhythm), singing and dancing - are the bards and folk singers of great importance : they are the sole and authentic narrators of this very old, rare and threatened extinction of the language, culture and music tradition. The musical and thematic background of Sena's songs refers to the tradition of the bards and folk singers in Dersim. Times very gently, sometimes rough, but always accompanied by powerful and melancholy she sings the epics and ballads of their homeland. Vocally she feels the traditional music of her homeland to strive both authentic and the musical heritage of the Alawite bard through modern arrangements and the use of Western instruments in contemporary music adapted. She looks very happy, and preferably close to soul and blues elements of style and attempts by the folk music tradition in Dersim in the refresh carefully. Born and raised in Dersim, she has moved through stations in Mardin and Istanbul to Germany, where she has lived for five years. Her debut album entitled "Asme u Per" (With the wings to the sky) came out in April 2005 in Germany, with the record label MIR. Four of the ten songs that are mostly) in their native language Zazaki and Kurdish partly in Kurmanci (and sung in Turkish, she has composed herself and texted. The other tracks are traditional origin and those of contemporary folk singers from Dersim. 2. Dagadu Veronika Sena was born in Accra, Ghana, to a Hungarian mother and a Ghanaian father. She grew up in Accra with 2 siblings and a heavy dose of music. From the times of nursery school, Sena has been active in all kinds of creative activities including traditional drumming and dancing, poetry recital, acting, singing and many more. In primary school she was already partaking in the writing and acting of school plays and performances. In secondary school she made a name for herself as being the MC, host of large school parties and events. All in all it can be said that she has been onstage most of her life. Sena began her musical journey in 2001 in Budapest, Hungary. A chance meeting with DJ Mango, DJ Bosi and other well known Hungarian underground hip hop and dancehall DJs and MCs bloomed into a tight friendship and working relationship that was based around freestyle hip hop. The crew then called Gimmeshot Crew, at the time ran a weekly dancehall, hip hop night in a local Budapest club. Microphones were passed around and anyone daring enough and good enough to shake the crowds was welcome. Sena immediately felt at home with them and this relationship gave birth to Sena's and Gimmeshot record labels' first release, "Sena First One." The album became an instant success in the underground scene in Hungary and resulted in a boost of performances and live shows for the years that followed. Although the album was not distributed outside Hungary, it managed to reach hands and ears all over Europe and in Ghana. The tracks on the album were made by Hungarian producers and musicians including Modul aka Mango (of Gimmeshot Crew), Yonderboi, Zagar, Absolut, Polskie, Superbeat, Marcel , bands: Kamu and Skeg, and featured other guest MCs from the Hungarian underground e.g. Bobakrome, Busa, Kemon, Hibrid, Interfunk, Rapa and others. The years following the album release saw Sena working with many musicians from many different genres, including the improvisational, abstract hip hop band Skeg, the Balkan funk jazz band Kamu, Dzihan and Kamien (Couch Records), DJ Cadik, DJ Vadim (BBE Records), EasyLifeNatural, Sabrine El-Hossamy (darbuka player from Turkey), DJ Spider, Colorblind All Stars, DJ Cadik, Irie Maffia reggae band, Dizko Stu and others. Sena at the same time was creating heat waves among musicians since she could blend into almost every kind of music that was given her. She often performs with DJs and bands on invitation, sometimes with a rehearsed line up and at other times, just freestyling and improvising with her personal lyrics, poems and songs. Although she never studied music in school, she has a trained ear and manages to respond and adapt to the sounds she hears. Hers is a truely original, self-taught style that makes her sound absolutely one of a kind. http://www.myspace.com/dagadusena/ 3. Sena is a German "Neo Soul" singer who nowadays lives in New York, USA. >> Blend smooth jazz and soulful old school reggae, spice it up with rocking guitar licks, add an exotic sitar, an electric hip hop violin, dynamic rhythms and smooth melodies, delivered by Sena's charismatic, sensual and silky voice and you get these captivating and funky compositions called "Neo Soul" : Sena's magical blend of cosmopolitan influences of multiple genres with vivid, intelligent and poetic lyrics<< More Informations: http://www.sena-music.com/music.html 4. Sena (Sebrenka) Jurinac (born 24 October 1921) is an operatic soprano, now retired, born in Travnik, Bosnia. Her father was a Croatian doctor, her mother Viennese. She studied at the Zagreb Academy of Music, and also with Milka Kostrenčić (whose other well-known pupil was Zinka Milanov). Jurinac's dark, forceful voice was pitched exactly between soprano and mezzo. Her repertoire included Butterfly, Elisabetta (Don Carlos), Desdemona, Elisabeth (Tannhäuser), Ilia, Iphigenia, Jenůfa, Leonora (La forza del destino), the Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos), Marie (Wozzeck), Pamina, Poppea and Tosca. In many operas her repertoire included more than one major role: Cherubino and Countess Almaviva, Donna Anna and Donna Elvira, Fiordiligi and Dorabella, Amor and Eurydice, Leonore and Marzelline (Fidelio), Marina and Fyodor (Boris Godunov), Octavian and occasionally Sophie and finally the Marschallin. She also played supporting roles in The Ring of the Nibelung: Woglinde, Gutrune, and several of the Norns. Sena Jurinac made her début as Mimì at Zagreb in 1942. In the following two years she sang the Countess, Freia and Isabella in the première of Werner Egk's Columbus. In 1944 she was engaged by the Vienna State Opera. Because of the war she was not able to sing there until 1946, when her first role was Cherubino. In the first year at the Staatsoper she sang more than 150 performances. She remained associated with the company for nearly forty years, receiving an honorary membership of the company, giving her the title of Kammersängerin, and the Mozart Medal. In the autumn of 1946 she appeared at Covent Garden with the Vienna company, singing Dorabella. Her Salzburg Festival début was in 1947. She appeared at La Scala as Cherubino. She became established as one of the Wiener Ensemble (together with Irmgard Seefried, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig, Lisa della Casa, Anton Dermota and others). Additionally, she remained a frequent visitor to England: between 1951 and 1956 she sang the principal Mozart soprano roles at Glyndebourne, recording both the Countess in Figaro and Ilia in Idomeneo. She appeared regularly at Covent Garden between 1959 and 1963, singing Leonore in Fidelio in Klemperer's production of the opera in 1961. Her American début was in the title role of Madama Butterfly in San Francisco in 1959. Her portrayal of Octavian is preserved in the Paul Czinner film of Der Rosenkavalier, conducted by Herbert von Karajan, with Schwarzkopf as the Marschallin. She portrays Marie in a film of Wozzeck. Sena Jurinac's final operatic performance was as the Marschallin at the Vienna State Opera in November 1982. She continued to give recitals and master classes, and served on the juries of international singing competitions. More informations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sena_Jurinac 5. Sena is a singer and/or fictional singer and main character of a Japanese manga / anime.