Musicians
Kostas Trikalis (GR) - bouzuki, oud, tzouras
Greek multiinstrumentalist who put his mind to music at the age of 10. Kostas has spent 18 years playing music in different bands. He specializes in traditional stringed instruments, guitars and violin. He has put his brain to composing his own music and cooperating with various artists lately. He is a member of a scholastic musical group in Heraklion and founder of a musical forum called Mastering.gr.
Credits on "One Music": Calcutta, See Ma Melody (Way)
www.myspace.com/trikalis
Blue Christal (DE/IN) - flute
A great wind instruments player who spent his childhood in several countries. He travels a lot, mainly between Germany and India. His private collection consists of more than 40 kinds of wind instruments. Blue performs live together with various bands, he guests in many digital projects and is also into therapeutic uses of music.
Credits on new album: Flute Ornament
bluechristal.jimdo.com
Lukas Rufer (CZ) - electric bass and guitar
A musician who started playing the acoustic guitar at the age of 17. Later on he joined an alternative band called "The Garden Is Opened" where he substituted the bassist. 5 years later, he stops performing and leaves the band to focus on his own music. Lukas is a founder of Lunar 5 project which associates kindred individual musicians in order to record or perform live.
Credits on new album: See Ma Melody (Way), Your Face (Hong Kong)
www.bandzone.cz/lunar5
Singers
Jitka Charvatova (CZ)
Jitka has played the piano since she was a child. She has started to compose her own songs and after meeting Dusan Vozary, she became interested in recording and recorded his solo album. Their cooperation grew into a Fiction project which later became a band and released 3 albums. For a long time, Jitka used to be a member of a succesful band called Skyline that she has left recently and now she is working on her first solo album.
Credits: Your Face (Hong Kong), Pop Poet, See Ma Melody, Journey, Kafute, Gloomy
www.jitkacharvatova.com
Hidey Blackmoon (JP)
A singer, DJ and producer who comes from Tokio where she showed her talent in the field of dance music in the 80's. Her profesional career started in the 90's. After performing in San Francisco and Israel, Hideyo has settled down on a Spanish island in Mediterranean, on Ibiza, where she colaborates with various artists from all over the world, Kato Kahra included.
Credits: Kotodama (Japan)
www.hideyo.jp
Iva Fruhlingova (CZ)
With a great succes In 2004 Iva came back to The Czech Republic from Paris where at first she worked as a model since she was 14. But as far as the music is concerned, she started singing in a band named "Turn Over". She signed a record deal for 4 albums after a major label had noticed her. The album didn´t score only in France, but also in Czech music charts and went gold and platinum. In 2006 Iva won a newcomer of the year award at Czech Music Awards. Nowadays she performs with a band named No Panic.
Credits: Dreamin
www.ivaf.cz
Marketa Polakova (CZ)
A singer and musician who started performing in a choir as a child. Later on she has participated in many musical projects and bands where she has played the piano and sang. Marketa is now a "Moon and I" member and she composes music for her own project called "Confused".
Credits: Still Alive
www.bandzone.cz/confused
Sonia Aimy (IT/NG)
Sonia is a singer, actress, choreographer and writer living in Torino, Italy but comes from Nigeria. As a child she fell in love with singing and thanks to an international program she started gaining experience in Europe, especially in Italy. She has performed in the national theater in Torino and Rome, in many TV programes and she has also acted in some Italian movies. She has also participated in many international programs for young people in many European countries. Sonia organizes musical festivals, writes books and creates her own scenic choreography.
Credits: Afrika Mwen, Chill and Believe
www.myspace.com/soniaaimy
Pavla Milcova (CZ)
Pavla is a singer, songwriter and music composer who also writes poems and lyrics for top Czech artists. She also composes scenic music for theater, sings and plays in movies. Pavla has released 4 albums and founded her own record label named Lampion Records.
Credits: lnsalave
www.pavlamilcova.com