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Artist
Juliana Venter
3+ albums
vocalexperimental
about
Born 08.10.1970 in Pretoria in South Africa. Born and raised in an Afrikaans family in South Africa and Namibia, where she studied opera and piano. Lived and worked in Johannesburg, Cape Town, London, Scotland, Cologne, and Berlin. In 2016, she moved to Norway. Speaks Afrikaans, English, German and Norwegian. Introduction: Juliana Venter is a multidisciplinary artist and primarily a vocalist who works with notated and free-improvised music, classical and extended vocal techniques, contemporary music, noise, jazz,free jazz,folk music expressions from Norway, Southern Africa, West Africa, Central Asia, and Arabic music. She has a very distinctive expression and is also an actress who works in both film and theatre. She also composes music for solo voice, and various ensembles and is permanent member of Paal Nilssen Love circus, “ It was her idea” and " Metatarsis and duo Nystrøm/Venter. As composer she writes traditional singer/songwriter style as well as modernist and conceptual contemporary music and avant garde. In addition, she has done countless cross-genre performance concerts and music/theatre performances. Operatically trained from 1985-98. She is known for her heartfelt voice, wide palette and her groundbreaking and at times extreme expression. She has been called by the press,“the queen of South African avant-garde“ She was lead singer in the music and performance band The Mud Ensemble from Johannesburg, which achieved cult status as pioneers in avant-garde
