"The only constant in life is change. By consciously embracing it, I can grow as a person." "Constantly Changing" is the title of Suzy Va's upcoming album. Her unique sound is hard to categorize. She combines the acoustic singer-songwriter style of her debut album, "suzy bartelt," with the diverse sounds and rhythms she discovers and incorporates along the way. Compared to the first album, the second features rockier sounds. Suzy Va's love for complex arrangements and vocal polyphony is clearly palpable.
"I sang first, then spoke." Suzy Va's musical roots go back to making music with her grandfather in the living room: They sang German folk songs together to the accordion. Today, she interweaves this early musical influence with the colorful sounds of Arabic music, rock, pop, and jazz. At the same time, her songs reflect the influences of musical role models and strong women like Tori Amos, Paula Cole, and Ani DiFranco. She loves it when music challenges and surprises: the exciting, the unpredictable. "Contradictions are part of it. There isn't just black or white."
She creates powerful, multifaceted songs that make you want to listen and immerse yourself in them. In 2018, she won first place at the German Rock & Pop Awards in the "Jazz-Rock Song" category with "The Day." It's a song that addresses fleeing one's homeland and settling into a new life. She was inspired by striking personal encounters with refugees and the escape story of her own grandparents.
In the fall of 2018, a crowdfunding community was formed that successfully supported the upcoming Suzy Va album, making its release in 2019 possible. "Constantly Changing" - stories of change and hope - the new name says it all: Suzy leaves, Suzy grows... Suzy Va.
01 Colorful Identities
02 Constantly Changing
03 Grey Swan
04 A Tree for Inanna
05 Darkness cannot be seen
06 White Birds
07 Blue Winter Rose
08 The Day
09 Happy Heart
