Gina Kanizsa

Gina Kanizsa
Gina Kanizsa on 10 February 2017
Background information
Birth name Georgina Kanizsa
Born (1988-04-28) 28 April 1988
Szolnok, Hungary
Genres Jazz
Occupation(s) Singer
Instruments vocals
Years active 2008–present

Georgina Kanizsa, also known as Gina Kanizsa (born 28 April 1988, Szolnok) is a Hungarian jazz singer and performer, most notable for participating in A Dal 2017.

Career

Between 2008 and 2013, she was the lead singer and lyricist of E.T.a.P, which, in 2011, won the first Talentométer prize in the electronic category, winning the audience award and the jury's special prize. Between 2010 and 2015, she was then a vocalist and lyricist in Calm Spirit, and then Gina Kanizsa & Third Plan as band leader in 2012. She founded Silence Fiction in 2013 as alternative jazz quartet with a lyricist and composer from Latvia. Her debut album was announced in 2015.

In 2012, she also joined the a cappella group Jazzation, which in 2013, was a part of the Vokal Total A cappella Competition in Graz and won the grand prize in the jazz category and the Ward Swingle Award. In 2014, In addition to the Winter Vocal A cappella Festival in Pinerolo, she received the Grand Prize of the International Festival in voice recognition. In 2015, Jazzation won the Grand Prize and the Audience Award at the International Acappella Competition in Leipzig. In 2015, she graduated from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music from the Jazz faculty, and is currently a master student of the Academy of Music.

In 2016, her album Twisted, and one of the songs in there, Beautiful Love, had been nominated for the American Music Awards Vox Populi Independent Audience Award. By October 2016, they performed at independent recitals in Budapest at the Festival Café. In 2016, she entered the Jazzy Song Contest with the song How We Love, which has been jointly produced with AnnaElza. Kanizsa is working with several well-known jazz bands such as Equinox, whose 2017 songs lyrics were written by Kanizsa. Since 2015, she has been a jazz music teacher at Etude Music High School.

On 8 December 2016, Kanizsa was one of thirty acts chosen to participate in A Dal 2017, the national selection for Hungary in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Fall Like Rain.[1] She progressed to the super final.[2]

Awards

  • A Dal 2017 Breakthrough Award (2017)

Discography

Gina Kanizsa at the first press conference for A Dal 2017, 8 December 2016

Studio albums

  • Twisted (2016)

Singles

  • Beautiful Love (2016)
  • How We Love (2016) (with AnnaElza)
  • Fall Like Rain (2017)

References

  1. ↑ "A Dal 2017 – Ők a második válogató továbbjutói". hirado.hu. 28 January 2017. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
  2. ↑ "Ők jutottak A Dal 2017 döntőjébe". hirado.hu. 10 February 2017. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
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