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BARB JUNGR
There she met and made music with a huge range of performers. Always defying genre classifications, she became part of the early alternative cabaret circuit, which has had a profound affect on her subsequent work and during and after which she had a twelve year songwriting and musical partnership with the blues guitarist and singer Michael Parker. Her interest in 'world music' grew as she toured some of the more remote parts of the world for the British Council (Malawi, Cameroon, Sudan, Burma, Tanzania, The Yemen) prompting her to study ethnomusicology for which she learned Iranian tribal singing. Specialising in 'voice' alongside giving concerts she has since written, broadcast and lectured extensively in the UK and around the world on vocal techniques and singing. Between 1991 and 2000 she created and originated a number of solo and group shows including 'Sex Religion and Politics' (with writer/director Julia Pascal), 'Red Roses Blue Ladies' (with pianist/composer Sarah Travis), 'Bare', 'Killing Me Softly' and 'Songs From The Heart' (with Russell Churney), and 'Hell Bent Heaven Bound' (with Ian Shaw, Christine Collister and Michael Parker). With Claire Martin and Mari Wilson she created the show 'Girl Talk' (1999). As well as her solo recordings, performances and tours Jungr has worked with the multi ability Amici Dance Theatre Company under the direction of Wolfgang Stange whose production of '20/20' (a history of disability in the twentieth century) featured Jungr as the crazed MC of a circus of freaks and which played two short seasons at The Lyric Theatre Hammersmith and in Berlin (200-2002). She collaborated with composer Jonathan Cooper on his 'Moon Behind the Clouds' cycle which he wrote for her unique voice and she was featured in the Simon Armitage Millennial Poem Channel 4 television film directed by Brian Hill. Barb Jungr is one of the foremost singers of Jacques Brel's repertoire and with Chanson The Space In Between, (Linn records AKD 167) she transformed classic Brel and Ferre songs with new arrangements and specially commissioned translations.
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