Headliner of II International festival «Music of faith» will be a famous Uzbek lady-singer of ethnic music Sevara Nazarkhan. Sevara with her group will perform on closing the festival in the Kazan Kremlin. To remind, a gala-concert will take place on July 7, at 7 .00 pm, entry is free.
Most of Russians are familiar with the name of Sevara Nazarkhan thanks to a project of the First Channel «Golosс»: in 2012, the singer successfully passed in a team of Leonid Agutin. However, the devotees of ethnic music all over the world have been aware and loving Sevara since last: for last fifteen years, the graduate of Tashkent conservatory on class of opera singing has managed to work with an outstanding British composer Peter Gabriel, to spend several years in a ceaseless tour across Europe and Asia and receive a title of «Best Asian Artist» within the frameworks of a prestigious award BBC World Music Award.
Sevara has issued 6 solo albums, recorded on well-known labels including «Yol Bolsin» (2002) in cooperation with producer Hector Zazu, «So easy» (2010) in Russian, «Tortadur» (2011) – a collection of Uzbek folk-classic songs, recorded with participation of master-instrumentalists in a studio of Gosteleradio of Uzbekistan and finished on Abbey Road Studios (London).
It is expected that within the festival «Music of faith», Sevara accompanied by her group, will perform a number of folk-compositions and Uzbek traditional melodies in a modern arrangement.
The festival «Music of faith»-2013 is going in the context of the project «Cultural Universiada ».