Geila Zilkha
Tokyo, Tōkyō, Japan | INDIE
Music
Press
Text is all in Japanese.
Asahi`s journalist interviewed Geila Nov.7.2010 - Asahi Evening Newspaper
Discography
2008.8.16 released a new CD "SOLO-DUO"
2010.10.20 Geila Zilkha "all Me"
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Bio
GEILA(female) is Israeli/Japanese blend who comes from a Jazz field. Geila`s influence is Sarah Vaughn, Marlena Shaw, Ernestine Anderson and many other Soulful Jazz singers. The name Geila comes from the Israeli song Hava Nagila, meaning JOY. She was born in Kobe, Japan to a Japanese mother and Israeli father. She discovered her joy for music at the age of nine after undergoing spinal surgery for scoliosis. While looking for ways to interact with people through music, she learned to play the alto sax and discovered JAZZ. She knew singing was her destiny while attending the Berklee College of Music as she realized she could express more through her voice. Jazz is her root to all music. After the devastating earthquake that hit Kobe in 1995, she made a fresh start in Tokyo, hosting a FM radio program and doing many studio works, while performing. She has three albums with her VOISSALOT CHOIR and had the privilege of performing with this group at the Apollo in New York City in 2009. And she also sings and performs as SOLO-DUO with male vocalist Ayumu Yahaba, and has a recorded together. Although she had been singing for nearly 20years, this album all Me is her first solo album. Fans, all around Japan had been longing for her album to come out.
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