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Artist
Lovász Irén
12+ albums
female vocalistsfolkhungarianpsych folk
about
http://lovasziren.hu/ Irén Lovász is not only one of the most respected Hungarian folk singers in the world. She is also an academic scholar in Human Sciences, she is a doctor (PhD) of Ethnography. She combines very well her scientific knowledge and her musical talent in her solo concerts, lectures and performances. Irén grew up in the middle of Hungary. In her family folk songs were sung on a daily basis and she learned her first folk songs from her parents and grandparents. As a university student of Linguistics and Literary Sciences she went on singing and began to collect and study ancient Hungarian folk songs in different regions of Hungary and the Carpathian Basin: Romania, Slovakia, Croatia among ethnic Hungarians. From 1987 - 1995 she worked as an ethnomusicologist at the Hungarian Museum of Ethnography, Department of Ethnomusicology dealing with the famous collection of Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály and László Lajtha. Between 1986 and 1995 she was also a university lecturer in Cultural Anthropology. In 1995 she was awarded her PhD in Ethnography.(She wrote her thesis on Sacred Communication, anthropological study of Folk Prayers.) In the 1980's she belonged to the Hungarian folk music revival, the so called dance house movement, she was one of the best traditional folk singers, with learning, studying, performing and teaching the authentic, pure folk songs. She won competitions in Hungary and abroad in international folk festivals from Wales to Finland. Her first
