GANNA

For native Ukrainian Ganna Gryniva, old folk songs from her homeland are a matter close to her heart – and a true musical treasure trove. Already with her critically acclaimed album “Home” (with GANNA Ensemble) she caused a sensation with emotionally charged, jazz-tinged arrangements. The successor “Kupala” features Gryniva with loops, samples and other effects, sounds much more electronic. Here, too, the Berliner-by-choice combines in a sophisticated way different sensory worlds from jazz to Ukrainian folk to experimental music, and always with a strong connection to the original themes of the Ukrainian singing tradition such as love and sadness and the connection between everyday life and nature.
She repeatedly traveled to her old homeland to look for traditional folk songs in archives and to record the singing of grandmothers and grandfathers and then worked on presenting her finds in her own musical language. Ganna likes songs that exude optimism and a love of life, and with her solo project she accentuated and elaborated that energy in a completely unique way.

Ganna Gryniva, born in 1989, grew up near Kiev and moved with her parents to Germany when she was 13. The singer, composer, pianist and activist, who has lived in Berlin since 2013, unfolds her different cultural roots in music and is actively committed to spreading the cultural heritage of Ukraine. In the her quintet GANNA ensemble and her solo project she combines jazz with Ukrainian folklore, classical and experimental music and in this way, has found her very own way of passing on the old songs.
In 2019, Ganna completed her jazz studies at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar, where she studied with Michael Schiefel, Jeff Cascaro and Frank Möbus. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy at the University of Leipzig.

GANNAGRYNIVA
voice, loops, effects, composition

VIDEO LINKS:
„Sokolonko“: https://youtu.be/4Au3IGt_zPU
„Witer“ live: https://youtu.be/T2T5EoeLwT4