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Lenka Lichtenberg

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Lenka Lichtenberg
Background information
BornPrague, Czechoslovakia
Genres
  • Yiddish
  • klezmer
  • world music
  • folk
  • world jazz
  • cantorial
Occupation(s)Composer, singer
Labels
  • ARC Music Productions
  • Six Degrees (digital distribution)
  • Supraphon (digital distribution)
Websitewww.lenkalichtenberg.com Edit this at Wikidata

Lenka Lichtenberg is a Canadian singer, composer, songwriter, and cantorial soloist of Czech-Jewish descent. She sings in Czech, English, French, Hebrew, and Yiddish.[1]

Early life and education

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She was born in Prague, into a family of Jewish origin. Most of her mother's family was murdered during the Holocaust.[2] At the age of nine, Lichtenberg became an actress at the Music Theatre Semafor in Prague.[3] She moved to Denmark, where she studied music at Aarhus Universitet and worked as a club singer.

In the 1980s, Lichtenberg moved to Canada and settled in Vancouver, where she continued her studies at the University of British Columbia (B.Ed., music, French), and sang in a rock band. She received her master's degree in ethnomusicology at York University in Toronto.

Career

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Lichtenberg performs internationally at Jewish culture festivals, folk and world music festivals and concert series. She has released seven solo albums and numerous collaborative projects. She is a regular Shabbat service leader at the Darchei Noam Congregation in Toronto.

Director Jaroslav Hovorka made a documentary film for Czech TV about her, Lenka Lichtenberg: Pisne pro ozivle steny (2011).

Accolades

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Lichtenberg has received numerous nominations and awards. In 2008 and 2012 she was the recipient of the Canadian Folk Music Award. Her latest project Thieves of Dreams placed at #36 at the Top 2022 Albums on World Music Charts Europe.

Discography

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  • 1999 - Deep Inside
  • 2003 - Open the Gate
  • 2006 - Pashtes with Brian Katz
  • 2010 - Fray
  • 2012 - Bridges with Roula Said
  • 2012 - Songs for the Breathing Walls
  • 2013 - Embrace
  • 2014 - Lullabies from Exile with Yair Dalal
  • 2016- Live in America
  • 2017 - Yiddish Journey (Arc Music Productions)
  • 2018 - Masaryk (Arc Music Productions)
  • 2019 - Lenkkodek with Andrew McPherson
  • 2022- Thieves of Dreams

References

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  1. ^ "More Bio". Archived from the original on 18 June 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
  2. ^ "Chanuka in Prague". Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
  3. ^ Renee Ghert Zand. "Musical tour creates poignant (...)". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
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