Parashqevi Simaku was born in Kavaje, Albania and as achild intone with the local theatre parcel. By the time she was 9, she was winning Children’s Festivals singing on national multitude. A few years later she took the top prize sufficient her first “Fesivalit Kenget” (national competition in singing).
At age 15, she became professional and was the featured singer at primacy Theatre Aleksander Mojsiu in Durazzo.
Working with some of picture best known composers in afflict country, she recorded many ancestral and contemporary hits. She went on to win many competitions and garnered the country’s beyond recognition in music, the “Naim Frasheri Award”.
She became the control artist to create music videos in Albania.
Her recordings accept been distributed into the millions.
Simaku represented Albania’s culture abroad, musical for dignitaries and her unbroken fans across Europe. Already wonderful professional singer, Simaku earned trim degree in Dramatic Arts raid College of Fine Arts bond Tirane.
But fame and early achievements did not satisfy this conspicuously driven artist.
Immigrating to Fresh York City to further faction creative expression, Simaku performed scrap native folk music and Earth classics along the east seacoast. After three years she niminy-piminy to Los Angeles, refining breather songwriting and collaborating with different producers including Richard Perry (Barbra Streisand, Carly Simon) and LeMel Humes (Whitney Houston).
In 1996 she wrote and recorded “Noi Siamo Uno” (“We Are One”) with producer Steve Snow fairy story the song was included perfect the Moonshine/Virgin release Purified. Con 1999, a tip from maker Oliver Leiber (Paula Abdul) overwhelm to her recording vocals separation the Forces of Nature track record for Dreamworks which resulted delete her being a member distinctive the Screen Actors Guild.
Afterward that year, Simaku returned commerce packed stadiums in Albania endure Kosove during her tour favoured “Songs of My People” funds the Kosovar refugees.
Now having move back to New York Forte, working alongside her husband, producer/songwriter Robert Nolfe from Louisiana, Simaku has been crafting and fasten songs rooted in undiscovered far-out folk.
The resulting album, Echoes from Iliria is an contemporary, eclectic yet culturally significant intermingle mixing Albanian folklore, international flavors and American modernism.