About

 

DARÏYA [də‘ri:ə] – SOUL, JAZZ, BLUES & ROCK SINGER

“RHYMES OF JAZZ, MELODIES OF SOUL, BLUES, AND OCCASIONAL ROCK DIRECT MY PASSION AND STYLE”

MULTIPLE PARTICIPANT OF MUSICAL FESTIVALS SUCH AS “USAD’BA JAZZ”, “AFISHA’S PICNIC”, “FETE DE LA MUSIQUE”, “TOTAL FLAME”, “WAKE WEEKEND” AND OTHERS.

 

DARÏYA is a spectacular and incredibly talented Russian singer. A young star of soul, jazz, blues and rock music with a strong, deep voice and recognizable timbre.

A perfect combination of beauty, sound and professionalism for your event.

Great musicians, stormy energy, passion and absolute magic.

A variety of styles, freedom of expression, great hits and her own material combined with sincerity in the performance and communication with the public are the main landmarks of her work.

 

DARÏYA & her band

Created in 2013 the band has already made a great way on the top of Moscow clubs and events. Together with Dariya there are the best jazz musicians on the stage. The material is based on their own version of the famous jazz songs as well as their original music. The strong composition of the group allows them to experiment and easily go beyond the executable genres. Performances of DARÏYA & her band are remembered for their unique energy, sincere warmth, and musicality.

 

DARÏYA promo photo

Article in The Moscow Times

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Ex-projects:

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DJ-&-vocal duet

Anatoly Ice & DARÏYA

 

The duet founded in 2009 brings you the funk, soul and beats music. In 2014 new instruments were included to the band – saxophone, trumpet and guitar.

Our songs are played on Russian radio stations “Megapolis” 89.5 FM, “Silver Rain” 100.1 FM and also in “The Craig Charles Funk and Soul show” on “BBC Radio6”, UK.

In March 2014 we released a 7 inches EP “Whatcha Trying To Do (To Me)?” on a polish label “Funky Mamas And Papas” with two songs on it: “Whatcha Trying To Do (To Me)?” and “Tell Me, Tell Me!”. Buy it on Juno.

Later on in July 2013 we released singles “No Exceptions”, “In Your Dreams” and “Down The Road” on iTunes, Google Play and other resources.

In 2014 we made a video on the song “No Exceptions”

In 2015 г. we made a song “Wouldn’t Be So Good” (get it on iTunes) that became a soundtrack for the Russian movie “Horoscope for Good Luck” (director Arman Gevorgyan), you can hear it in the final titles. Besides, our songs  “No Exceptions”, “Tell Me, Tell Me!” and “Whatcha Trying To Do (To Me)?” are also in this movie.

http://anatolyice.ru

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From 2011 to 2013 DARIYA collaborated with the band Orange Juice, now Oran Juzz. Together they performed such musical styles as funk, samba and bossa-nova, sometimes mixing it with pop-rock and blues.

In 2011 the band released single “Real Thing”, single and video on the song “Sunrise Samba”.

In 2013 they released single “TIME”, second track is “Travel In Time”, and made a video on the song “TIME”.

http://oranjuzz.ru

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From February 2012 til June 2013 DARIYA collaborated with a famous Russian bluesman Sergei Voronov, leader of the band Crossroadz.

DARIYA performed with him in some evening blues “Open G Jams” with friends Yuri Novgorodsky – guitar, Dmitry “Veteran” Chectnykh – bass, Michael Vladimirov – harmonica, Alexey “Lex” Blokhin – keys. Lovers of this music style could hear classical blues as well as DARIYA and Sergei Voronov’s own songs and many interesting improvisations. Open G Jam – Ain’t No Sunshine

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In 2005 DARIYA with the band “GanDuRas” recorded a song “Captain” for the soundtrack to the movie “Hunting for piranha”.

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In short:

Singer, musician, composer.

Experience in vocal: more than 10 years

Musical directions: jazz, funk, soul, blues, rock.

DARÏYA has experience of live perfoming, working with the bands, studio recording.

 

All proposals about mutual creation and work are considered.