Marinita

Marinita (Marina Zakharova) is a Ukrainian singer, pianist and composer. The original style of Marinita was described by many critics as a unique combination of different genres as classical, jazz, Jewish, Ukrainian, Gypsy, Azeri and other oriental folk music traditions. Marinita plays with amazing azeri percussion player from Kyiv Orhan Agabeyli. Together with him Marinita has six projects with different brilliant musicians: Mark Eliyahu - Israeli star, kamancheh player and composer Amir Shahsar - well-known musician, Persian ney and clarinet virtuoso Ferenc Bernath - beautiful classical guitar player from Budapest Amir Perelman from New Song of Jerusalem Ensemble. Very well-known Israeli musician and composer (oud, bouzouki, guitar). Shirhan Agabeyli amazing bass player and singer, the brother of Orhan Agabeyli. Marina had a lot of tours in the EU countries, USA, Israel and Ukraine. She took part in many international festivals, include: Sacred Music Festival (Jerusalem, Israel), Art of Tolerance (Ukraine), PalmJazz (Poland), Jazz Days in Megiddo (Israel), Nessiah (Pisa, Italy), Jazz Bez (Ukraine-Poland), Warsaw Summer Jazz Days (Warsaw, Poland), City Stages (Birmingham, USA), ZaJazz (Kharkiv, Ukraine) and many others Marinita released five albums: Marinita - 2015 Galilee - 2008, Sand & Stone - 2005, In The Focus of Time - 2004, Behind The Horizon - 1999