ZEM on electric harp

1 (solo) performer

Indoor and outdoor

Singer (female)

1,5 hour

1m50 by 1m50

FR, NL, EN

This extraordinary singer-songwriter is essential for your event. ZEM performs with her semi-electric harp with drum loop and mixes different styles from folk to trip-hop. Book her now through Showbird!

She sings and writes in three languages: French English and Dutch. She plays a full set of original songs/sounds. ZEM performs on her semi-electric harp with drum loop, mixing different styles from folk to trip-hop.

ZEM can be booked for various occasions:
- In concert: a set of 60' with her own songs in different styles from folk to trip-hop on her semi-electric harp and loop.
- Corporate & private events: jazzy background music or performance, acoustic or electric, themes and songs on request.
- Living room performance: an intimate 60-minute concert of her own songs or covers in different styles, from chanson to trip-hop (acoustic or electric).

Please leave your specific wishes in the application, and receive an appropriate customized proposal!

ZEM was born in Ethiopia. She never knew her father and her mother dies when she is three. She ends up in an orphanage from where she is adopted by a Belgian/Dutch family. She grows up in Ghent. From the age of 8, she takes a classical harp course (private student Suzanna Mildonian), with piano as a second instrument. In addition, she obtains a master's degree in sociology (Ugent). At 16, she chooses hip-hop and piano as a singer-songwriter and singer, from which grows a musical taste that ranges from soul over pop (including a participation in The Voice of Flanders in 2014) to intimate French chansons.

In 2015, she decides to combine all these styles and embark on an artistic path of her own, also doing everything herself under her own management. In 2017, she returns to her first, great love: the harp. From then on, everything falls together and she develops a musical style all her own in which classical harp becomes hip-hop and lovely chanson electronics. In February 2018, she gives her first performance with her harp at Centrale. In March 2018, she wins TV5MONDE's prestigious audience award at the "Concours de la Chanson Alliance Française" in The Hague. She was the only finalist to perform a song she wrote herself. "GAND" is about how Ghent and its rebellious history inspires her.

ZEM was booked by, among others: ELLE Magazine, ELLE Magazine, Porsche, Breitling, VOKA, AB-Inbev, ING, Deloitte, MASTERS EXPO A'dam, World Resources Forum (Geneva), PAN Kunstforum Niederrhein (D), VPRO -Tv, Pax Christi International, Les Machines de l'ile Nantes (Fr), DHL, Roularta Mediagroup, OVAM, World's 50 Best Restaurants, Markant, Sterck-Magazine, TVH, Konecranes, Dierickx Bank, CIO of the Year, BOZAR , Credendo, Lions Club, Van Olmen & Wynant, ...

Internships: Folies Bergère Paris, Diligentia Theater The Hague, Koningin Elisabethzaal Antwerpen, Concertzaal Vooruit Gent, Via Via Brussel, Het Depot Leuven, Gentse Feesten - Laurentplein, Bij Sint Jacobs, Biekorf Brugge, CC De Steiger Menen, Bij de Vieze Gasten, CC De Centrale, Brugges festival, ...

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