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Yuliya Roma

Yuliya Roma is Ukrainian jazz singer, composer, author of the songs and pedagogue.

The voice of the singer is individual. She is easily recognizable among those who is interested in Ukrainian jazz. Yuliya Roma has been a soloist of the Night Groove band since 1999. The band is considered nowadays to be one of the most interesting and distinctive jazz bands in Ukraine. She is a laureate of International Jazz Contest Do#Dj2002, the participant of international jazz festivals in Ukraine, Russia, and Latvia.

Behind Yuliya Roma's back are solo concert performing at Kyiv jazz stages, performing throughout Ukraine, Cyprus, Malta, cooperation with the best musicians of the country.

Since 2004 Yuliya Roma is a teacher of a jazz vocal educational complex NMAU (National Musical Academy of Ukraine - translator's note) named after P. I. Chaikovskiy - KSHMC (Kyiv State Highest Musical College - translator's note) named after R. M. Gliyer.

In March, 2006, the singer releases her first solo album named Heartbeats consisting of author's compositions in English, which was highly evaluated in music environment. The CD was recorded by members of the Night Groove band, each being a creative person and pleading his own solo career and having their own solo albums. Among them are the following: Nataliya Lebedeva - piano, Igor Zakus - bass guitar, Aleksey Fantayev - drums, Artem Mendelenko - saxophone, Aleksandr Pavlov - guitar.

information, photo from official site: http://www.yuliyaroma.com/

Albums:

Yuliya Roma. Heartbeats.

...Yulia Roma's singing sounds just as that minute of silence before the sunrise, as if blue eyes of a child three-month old, attentively and easily... Music of this voice transforms jazz into soft crystal, it is so masterful that it does not attract any superfluous attention – but you cannot actually stop listening, noticing, feeling – and the sun rises, and the heart elate...

Domestic price: 44.12UAH, International price: $10.92USD

Songs:

U koli druziv. Jazz-kolo live 2007. (DVD). (In the Circle of Friends)

Colors permanently change, mix up, sometimes in quite strange directions – for some musicians migrate from one team to another, practically never leaving the scene. As a result, there arises absolutely warm, friendly, "private" atmosphere – curiously combining the sense of the large scene and, at the same time, the feeling of an almost family jam in a small club.

Domestic price: 100.68UAH, International price: $24.92USD

U koli druziv. Jazz-kolo live 2007. (In the Circle of Friends)

At a certain moment it becomes so comfortable that the scene and the audience form a common circle – it is not by chance that the disc got the name "In the Circle of Friends". Actually, Jazz-Kolo project has again completely justified its name, and that evening everybody was feeling warm in the concert hall...

Domestic price: 36.04UAH, International price: $8.92USD