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Helka, de nem a balatoni legendákból
Beszélgetés Debreczeni-Kis Helgával
Conversation with musician and zither player Helka (Debreczeni-Kis Helga). Helka is her chosen stage name. She is a young musician who successfully connects the world of folk music and tradition with the restless, constantly changing digital times. She has an active online presence with her own website (including English version), Facebook, blog, Tik Tok and so on. She graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Music where her instruments were zither, violin and coboz. Today she performs and teaches music. In 2017 she was a contestant on Hungarian Television’s Páva folk talent contest and says the exposure on the TV talent show gave her career a nice start. When she was 11 years old, she found her first zither on her grandfather’s shelf – it was covered with dust and the strings were rusty. At the beginning of her career, she played strictly traditional folk music. Nowadays she also uses an electric zither and has gone on to do improvisation, arrangements of traditional tunes and her own music – for which she uses looper pedal, reverb, delay, and harmonizing pedals. She plays with the band Új Gereben, has worked with saxophonist Szokolay Balázs Dongó and Békés Banda. Last year released a CD entitled “Tündevény”. Interivew by Grozdits Károly.