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 The Little Birdie is flying again 11-Apr-2008
The Little Birdie is flying again!! With new feathers, it is taking off again to wing the air, across the world.
Madárka, madárka (Little Birdie)
Andrea Gerak's first album with
haunting folk songs from various regions of the historical Hungary has been sold out and
now is here again, in a new, pretty design.
What people say:
"When I listened to your songs, I got into such a good mood! Boy, this is what people need!" - Ákos Kunfalvy, poet
"I like to listen to your songs VERY much" - Anders Miolin guitar virtuoso
"I am totally convinced about your professionalism." - Sándo
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 Womens' Day Gala Concert 10-Mar-2008
Yesterday Andrea Gerak performed in Sweden for a Gala Concert celebrating 100th anniversary of the International Womens' Day. The event was a cooproduction between the Embassies of Italy, Hungary and Venezuela, opened by Italy's Ambassador, also attended by the Ambassador of Honduras.
The Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm provided perfect settings for the musical performance.
Andrea's acapella Hungarian folk songs enchanted the audience, as well as the arias sung by Venezuelan born soprano Gabriela Gonzales-Toledo, accompanied by Anders Wadenberg on piano.
"It was a wond
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 MIX Magazine Interview 5-Mar-2008
Two-page article with Andrea Gerak in the February issue of MIX Magazine in Hungary. You can meet Andrea's husband and find out about some of her other favorites as well.
Bird, Flying High
She is representing folklore traditions, national values in a world which can be described mainly with disappearing borders. Promoting worldwide the "Hungarian fire", everything that is beautiful and worthy. Andrea Gerak is awaited with love everywhere, from Sweden through Germany still to London. Wherever she appears, the scene is loud from songs of different nations, melodies of one thousand year. Ri
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 From the Pacific to the Atlantic 3-Dec-2007
Andrea Gerak introducing her song on the 100th edition of Electrical Language Podcast as well as on AMPed, the official podcast of Association of Music Podcasting
A song travelling through the ether, after having been recorded 40 years ago in a village of Malaita, Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. A folk song called Rorogwela, a lullaby sung by an elderly woman.
Since then, the melody became well known, such names composed music to it as Deep Forest or Jan Garbarek, or recently the Canada based Existence Records gathered electronica masters to remix the song and presented Deep Fore
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 Andrea Gerak Sings Rorogwela 13-Apr-2007
Hungarian singer Andrea Gerak and Spanish composer Angel Oros (also known as Cambridge 2003) present a song originated from Oceania, the famous Rorogwela.
The melody was made well known in Sweet Lullaby, the probably most recognized song of Deep Forest, which counts as a ground breaking piece in creating the World Music genre, and is a widely adored success track, since 15 years. Their first version was followed by several remixes and Jan Garbarek also fell in love with the theme and made a jazzy saxophone piece out of it, the Pygmy Lullaby. Through the years, other musicians also arranged th
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 Authentic Hungarian Village Music - CD release 24-Jan-2007
Traditional Hungarian folk music from Andrea Gerak and the Transylvanian band Barozda
Andrea Gerak has been often mentioned as "the enigmatic Hungarian female voice", by fans and by the media as well.
Andrea had her first stage performance at the age of 5. From a few years later on, she has been singing and dancing in several folklore groups in Hungary, including the famous Bartok Ensemble. Often she was the soloist as a singer and/or dancer. With the groups and later in her solo career, she appeared in almost all countries of Europe.
Today Andrea lives in Sweden and is mostly involve
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 Hungarians Made The Audience Shed Tears 22-Nov-2006
Concert review: Andrea Gerak & Barozda at Brugges Festival of World Music
"The Brugges Festival is a unique world music festival which remains faithful to its fixed principles, since years: discoveries and an ideal lustre climate create and present a beautiful mixture of well-known and unknown groups. The organizers are thus proud on the statement of the late Manos Hadjidakis: The Brugges festival are perhaps the smallest, but certainly the most beautiful festival of Europe. Which can be true also to the program of this year. The festival does not only offer double concerts on three evenings
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 Andrea Gerak & Barozda to perform at Brugges Festival of World Music 13-Sep-2006
Brugges Festival of World Music is for lovers of good quality world music, this statement can be taken as granted. The Stadsschouwburg and the Biekorf in Brugge will be the warm nests for ten great acts. The festival is focusing on acoustic performances and addresses public that gladly appreciates live music.
Perfect timing, carefully chosen venues and excellent sound ensure that the Brugges Festival will be pure pleasure. There is of course also the menue: a surprising programme. Tango, Flamenco, Rembetika: tasty musical bites from all angles of Europe and the world are to be enjoyed. Exclu
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 From Borsod to World-Wide Fame - KOZELET Interview 7-Sep-2006
The internationally more and more known Hungarian singer Andrea Gerak (born in Ozd and raised up in Kazincbarcika of Borsod county) has been compared to Enya and Sally Oldfield as well. In Hungary, she's been classified in the same stream as Marta Sebestyen, Katalin Szvorak, Iren Lovasz or Beata Palya. She lives now in Stockholm, Sweden.
Andrea gave an interview for the summer special edition of her hometown's weekly magazine KOZELET (Public Life) which proudly featured the artist on 2 full pages.
Read interview in English or in its original language
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 Midwest Record Review on CD Madarka, Madarka 15-Aug-2006
In their 28/July issue, Midwest Record mention not only the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, but independent artist Andrea Gerak as well: "Truly a solo record as Gerak takes front and center for a collection of Hungarian folk songs that feature just her voice. That’s it. Where does that leave the rest of the non-Hungarian speaking world in relation to this record? If you want to hear a pure voice in it’s highest state and just enjoy the ride, the lyricism in Gerak’s presentation will be enough to carry the day. A unique experience that many try to capture and fall short, this is the blue
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