Artists
who's who and who's doing what?Renate Hornstein
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- Angelika Haas (piano)
- Lina Neuner (double bass)
- Rainer Deixler (drums)
- Renate Hornstein (voice, piano)
- country:Austria
- style(s):Songwriter
- label:Extraplatte
- type:Band, Composer/Songwriter
- gender:female
- instrumentation:vocal
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Renate Hornstein
the very heart of voice
Renate Hornstein was born in 1982 in Vienna/Austria as the daughter of her Armenian/American mother Arpi Demirjian and her Austrian father Martin Hornstein, both well-acclaimed classical musicians - cellists. Inspired by her rich musical and cultural background she began to play the violin at the age of eight but would soon turn to what became her favorite instrument: the voice.
She started her vocal training (jazz, pop, musical) at the age of twelve with Kathy Sampson who worked with her for the next six years and later continued with classical voice training with opera singer Elfriede Hobarth. At an early age, she discovered her love for writing songs and lyrics and began to work and perform with various musicians, one of them being the Viennese guitarist Thomas J. Lang, with whom she released her first album "orplid skies" (extraplatte) in 2003.
When they both decided to go separate musical ways, she continued writing songs and founded a new quartet including piano, double bass and drums.
Her first solo album "the very heart of things" will be released in 2008.
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