Pély Barna

Hungary

concert

For more than a decade now Barna Pély is considered to be an emblematic and colourful musician of the hungarian music scene. He mixes up the characteristics of several styles (blues, jazz and funk) on the stage and in his original songs too. Besides building his solo career as a singer-songwriter, he was the frontman of the well-known hungarian band called "B The First", wherewith he was broadcasted during the semifinals of the 2016 Eurovision Contest in Hungary with a song “You told me that you loved me”. He wrote several hungarian radio hits with UNITED in his early years. In the year 2000 he was awarded for the „best album of the year”, and also got 1st prize for the „best ballad” from the hungarian label of Warner Music. From 2003-2006 he was a jury and musical advisor of The Hungarian Idol. From 2007 he is working as the jazz-singing faculty leader at the Kodolányi János University. In the last few years he had concerts in many countries, some of them are Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Spain and many otheer. There were special concerts in Hard Rock cafe-s in Antwerp, Oslo, Jakarta and several jazz and blues festivals.