Portrait of the Jazz Singer Defne Sahin
Kindrid Spirits
"To live singly and free like a tree, yet brotherly like a forest. That is what we yearn to do." These lines, which were written by the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet, have been with Defne Sahin since her childhood as the daughter of Turkish parents in Berlin. They also inspired her first album. Katrin Wilke reports on a young jazz singer with a cosmopolitan, literary approach to her music
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Katrin Wilke