08.10.2009.
Tamara is the artistic director of the new jazz festival, VALAMARJAZZ, which will have its first edition in June 2010 in Poreč.
The sponsors of the festival are Riviera Poreč and Valamar Group.
05.10.2009
Tamara and Rambo (Amadeus) had a successful concert at the packed Boogaloo Club in Zagreb… Both bands played like crazy, there was some funk, jazz, turbo-folk, ethno and other both musical and non-musical genres and styles… and Rambo and Tamara made some new hits on the spot…
25.09.2009
Presently working on her second multi-media DVD within PANPHONIA ISTRIANA project, recording at Žejane and Šušnjevica.
01.09.2009
Golden Seagull Award for the best remake of Runjić’s song “A vitar puše” was given to Tamara Obrovac and Matija Dedić at the 5th Runjić’s Evenings Festival
01.07.2009.
Recorded the video for the song “Turbo Funk”, in which she is a blonde with long fingernails… haha
Tamara is a guest performer on the album of the Popeye band, in the song entitled “Delaj delaj” which is also the single announcing the new album. She performs the rapper mummy… with curlers in her hair…
audio : LINK
10.07.2009.
Tamara performed at the promotion of the new album of the Popeye band at Uljanik Club in Pula, in a rather interesting stage appearance… with an apron and a ladle…
March 30, 2009
The new CD, „I won't sing jazz any more“, Aquarius Records... we've plugged in... Tamara and her electric Transhistria band play Istrian soul and funky FEATURING the special guest-star, turbo tzar RAMBO AMADEUS on Turbofunk...
January 23, 2009
I've been away for a while, haven't had the time to let you know what I've been doing, I'm looking for a secretary... there, the electric album is almost finished, will be published by Aquarius Records, the single „I won't sing jazz any more“ is already around, the CD should be released by the end of February, and the concert preview will be held at INK (Istarsko narodno kazaliste) Pula, on February 21 at 20 hours. Our motto: lets plug in and play some Istrian funk... followed by concerts in other cities... but more about it some other time... ciao!
January 21, 2009
This singer has broadened her horizons onto multimedia and together with Matija Debeljuh, director and video artist, she promoted the first multimedia DVD dedicated to Istro-Roman dialect with the multimedia play PANtheatron on January 21 at INK Theater. This DVD is a part of the years-long project of revitalization of Istrian dialectal and musical tradition, PANPHONIA ISTRIANA, Istrian polyphony. The project will produce one multimedia DVD every two years, dedicated to one of the many Istrian dialects of Slavic and Roman origin. The leading idea is: dialect is the language of emotion, emotion is the language of the soul, soul is the language of a culture. Soon, you can visit the website www.panphonia.com where you will see a great deal of the material presented on the DVD.
January 18, 2008
Except the electric version, your favorite singer is preparing a new acoustic surprise... it is the cooperation of Transhistria Ensemble with the Czech string quartet EPOQUE. The new material is ready and it includes jazz, Mediterranean ethno and classical music. Istrian preview of the project will be held on February 14 at INK Theatre in Pula and on February 15 in Rovinj, and the Croatian preview will be held on May 13 within Jazz Cycle at Lisinski Hall in Zagreb, when we'll most probably record the live DVD as well. See you...
July 25, 2007
Your favorite singer has gone electric and already performed at several concerts (at Novigrad Music Nights Festival and at the opening of Motovun Film Festival for example) and released the single with the song „I won't sing jazz any more“... believe me, there was some serious Istrian funk and some real dancing... CD will be out by the end of 2008...
June 2, 2007
At the VI. Festival of Bosnian Drama, held in Zenica in 2007, Tamara Obrovac received the award for the best stage music for the original music in the production entintled „The Embraced“, written by Miodrag Žalica, directed by Robert Raponja and performed by Sarajevo War Theatre SARTR, http://www.bnp.com.ba/festival/nagrade.php
Your favorite singer has won again... ha, ha...
Bosnians love me, and I love them in return, even though my car was broken into the last time I was in Sarajevo...
10.02.2007
NEW AWARD FOR THE BEST THEATRE MUSIC
23rd National theatre festival in BiH brought for Tamara Obrovac another award: for the best music in play "Them embraced...". Script written by Miodrag Žalica, directed by Robert Raponja, in production of SARTR theatre, Sarajevo War Theatre.
23.01.2007
“Tuca’ La Louna” on Putumayo World Music's new compilation
Women of the World: Acoustic
Tamara Obrovac among world’s leading female artists
“Tuca' La Louna” (Touch the Moon), the song from one of Tamara's latest CD's "Is Faraway…" is released on Putumayo World Music's new compilation called Women of the World: Acoustic. The album is an exploration of contemporary acoustic music by some of the world's leading female artists and also PWM's tribute to International Women’s Day.
In “Tuca’ La Louna,” Tamara sings of her people’s quest for hope and salvation.
22.07.2006
Hoooray, THE SINGING LADY HAS WON THE GOLDEN ARENA AWARD FOR MUSIC FROM THE MOVIE “WHAT IS A MAN WITHOUT MOUSTACHE", HE, HE, HE…nothing can stop us now… victory 1:0, at home. :)
14.07.2006
My dear fellows, the singing lady has "worked off" two new festivals this summer:
NOVIGRAD CITTANOVA MUSIC NIGHTS July 14th and 15th, and first ROVINJ WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL July 21st and 22nd. There was a lot of good music there, and two very different festivals… From glorious Los Van Van and Angela Brown in Novigrad to excellent Tera Folk and Mazde Carpate in Rovinj. I did succeed to take a swim few times and sun bath a bit, but now, it's time to get to work again and again…Transhistria has also had few concerts in the country and abroad. At the end of August and beginning of September, there will be few concerts in Croatia, and afterwards in Germany again…(see under concerts section)
31.05.2006
With two new concerts, on 29th of May in Eisenstadt and 30th of May in Vienna, Transhistria promoted another new CD.
As was already mentioned, we worked on the project in Eisenstadt, or as we say Zelezni, in Austria, treating some folk songs from Gradišće, interpreting them in artistic way (this lady made the arrangements and composed 2 new songs with text from Viliam Pokorni, Slovak from Gradišće.) Original versions of these songs were chosen and recorded by Gegi Kustrić, actor and musician, Croat from Gradišće. The language and dialect are fantastic, archaic, saved in its original shape. We produced the CD in ORF studio (Austrian national television); on excellent equipment with even better tone master Karlo.
19.05.2006
USA tour of Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble
19th May, 9 p.m. – Hot House, Chicago
21st May, 7,30 p.m. & 9,30p.m. – Joe's Pub, New York
Tamara's cultural potential was recognised by the artistic management of the most eminent American jazz clubs: Joe’s Pub in New York hosts artists such as Elvis Costello, David Byrne, Bebel Gilbert, Alicia Keys and David Grey, and Hot House in Chicago is unavoidable intersection of the World's movements in domain of the World music.
Apart from music from the album All fades away…and the new soundtrack It's Faraway…, Tamara presented, for the first time, compositions made in cooperation with The Istro-Romanian Language Documentation Project, linguistic project created in New York with an aim of preservation of Žejan language, the language that has been used in Istro-Romanian enclave in Istria for centuries.
23.04.2006
At this year’s Porin ceremony, 13th ceremony of discography awards” Porin 2006”, Tamara Obrovac received 3 Porin awards:
- for the best female vocal performance, with the song “Is faraway… tarantella" from her new album “Is Faraway…”
- for the best album of ethno music, also with her new album “Is Faraway…”
- and for the best vocal cooperation with Tedi Spalato, the song “You and me” from Tedi’s new album “Hungry for the beauty, thirsty for the love”.
01.04.2006
One festival, four days, 30 musicians, 40 000 votes and only one
LADY-MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR!
Tamara Obrovac won the award of The best Croatian female musician of 2005 at the festival Golden koogla 2006, which took place from March 30th until April 2nd in Zagreb. Awarded prize was for the best female vocal of 2005.