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Perpetuum jazzile africa
Perpetuum Jazzile is a Slovenian musical group, best known for a 2009 a cappella cover of Toto's "Africa" performance video that has received more than 19 million YouTube views as of June 2016.
Contents
- Perpetuum jazzile africa
- Perpetuum jazzile true colors
- Music
- Leadership
- History
- Awards
- Albums
- Songs
- References
Founded in 1983, under its former name Gaudeamus Chamber Choir, it consists of both female and male singers. They are occasionally joined by the Slovenian Radio and Television Big Band instrumentalists. The choir mainly performs a cappella with one of its members, Sašo Vrabič, as vocal percussionist.
Perpetuum jazzile true colors
Music
Initially inspired by Gene Puerling, The Singers Unlimited, and The Swingle Singers, the choir performs bossa nova, swing music, funk, gospel, and pop, using harmonies characteristic of close harmony music.
Leadership
Founded by Marko Tiran in 1983, the choir's art leadership was in 2001 passed to Tomaž Kozlevčar, and ten years later to Peder Karlsson.
History
In 2006, they recorded Čudna noč (Strange Night) album, released by Dallas Records, and had a concert with Mansound (from Kiev, Ukraine). A vocal jazz seminar in Ljubljana was organized by them with Ward Swingle, the Swingle Singers founder.
Their performance of "Africa" earned kudos from the song's co-writer, David Paich, and Toto invited them on stage during a 2011 concert held near Udine, Italy.
In 2011, the choir embarked on a "World Tour", which took them to sold out venues in Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Canada and the USA.
Every Fall, the group performs Vokal Xtravaganzza evening concerts in Cankar Hall in Ljubljana, with a number of guests from Slovenia and abroad, including local Alenka Godec, 6Pack Čukur, Alya, Oto Pestner, Jan Plestenjak, and Nuša Derenda, and Vocalica (Italy), The Real Group (Sweden), Mansound (Ukraine), BR6 (Brazil), The Real Six Pack (Germany) from abroad.
In 2015 Maraaya, the Slovene duo that represented Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song Here for You, released a videoclip of the song featuring Perpetuum Jazzile.
On June 19, 2015, the group performed during the Slovenian national day at Expo 2015 in Milan In autumn of the same year Perpetuum Jazzile was on its first tour in China with a big concert in Guangzhou Opera House.
Peder Karlsson, the famed Swedish a cappella specialist who was recruited in 2011 as the group’s musical mentor, recalls in a documentary video on the group:
The very first rehearsal I did with Perpetuum Jazzile, I practised a song I'd written called 'Anything can happen’… They were so fantastically good. For me, that's because they have spent so much time together, so the friendship they have, that comes out in the music.
Awards
In 2008, it was awarded the Vokal.Total Award at the International Choir Festival and International A Cappella Competition and it won awards at international jazz vocal music competition in Tilburg, Netherlands.
They won awards at the Choir Olympics in Graz, Austria.
In 2010, they were awarded the Slovenian "Viktor Award", a local equivalent of the Grammy Award.
Albums
Songs
AfricaAfrica · 2009
Avsenik MedleyVocal Ecstasy · 2012
Abba Greatest HitsThe Show (Live in Arena) · 2014