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Elina Spiro Duni (born May , Tirane, Albania) is a Swiss-Albanian jazz singer.
Elina Duni
Albanian jazz singer and composer
Elina Duni (born 10 March 1981, Tirana, Albania) is a Swiss-Albanian jazz singer and composer. She left Albania at the age of ten to live and study in Geneva, Switzerland.[1] She went on to study singing, composition and teaching at the University of the Arts Bern,[2] but from 2004 onwards Albanian folk music became a prime influence.
At this moment, in 2004, she formed a quartet under her own name with the Swiss jazz pianist Colin Vallon, bassist Patrice Moret and drummer Norbert Pfammatter. In a review, John Fordham concluded that "This quartet definitely sounds like rising star material for ECM."[3] After two albums – Baresha (2008) and Lume Lume (2010) – on Meta Records, the quartet went on to record for ECM in 2012, with Matanë Malit (Beyond the Mountain) and in 2015, Dallëndyshe (Swallow).
In 2014, she released her first album as a singer-songwriter in Kosovo and Albania, entitled Muz