- country:Türkiye
- style(s):Folk
- label:Pasion Turca S.L.
- type:Band
- gender:female
- artist posted by:Pasion Turca S.L.
ELIF SANCHEZ’S DEBUT ALBUM “ELIF SANCHEZ” ON ALL DIGITAL PLATFORMS!
Pasion Turca releases Elif Sanchez’s debut album on October 22 on all digital platforms. She uniquely interprets beloved folk songs from Turkey and Azerbaijan with jazz, classical, and world music influence.
Elif Sanchez's musical journey started in her hometown Istanbul, she got accepted to Istanbul University State Conservatory. She continued middle school and high school education, majoring in classical performance on oboe and English horn. In 2013, She was accepted to Berklee College of Music with a scholarship, and studied jazz oboe and vocal, majoring in performance, and Music Business as a minor. She graduated from Berklee, winning the Bill Pierce Award and the Mediterranean Music Institute Award in 2017.
Afterward, she moved to New York to continue performing with her project at concert halls such as Drom NYC, Rockwood Music Hall, and The Well Brooklyn. She caught the attention of 14 Grammy award winner Javier Límon with her group "Mediant Collective" that she founded in 2015 and was invited to the "Refuge of Sound" project as a guest artist.
Sanchez uniquely interpreted her modern arrangements of Turkish and Azerbaijani folk songs including, “Ay Oğlan Yiğit Misin,” “Almanı Attım Xarala,” and “Bağlamam Perde Perde” alongside a well-known Spanish song “Contigo Aprendí” by Armando Manzanero.
She releases her first solo album with Pasión Turca label who has been working with world-renowned artists such as Buika, Loreena Mckennitt, Monica Molina, Pink Martini, and many others. Elif Sanchez said “This album is basically a 40-minute-long biography and tells everyone who Elif really is. I grew up in Istanbul but under a roof that had Anatolian culture. I lived in the United States for a long time. I spoke English outside but there was always Latin food and Spanish inside of our home. I’ve always had multiple cultures in my life. This album represents all those cultures. Turkish and Azerbaijani folk songs with Jazz, Latin, basically world music influences”
The first single chosen from Sanchez’s debut album is “Ay Oğlan Yiğit Misin” will be released on all digital platforms.