ZEM on electric harp and drum station

1 (solo) performer

Indoor and outdoor

Band

1,5 hour

1m50 by 1m50

FR, NL, EN

One-woman band ZEM performs on its semi-electric harp, now with drum loop, and mixes different styles from folk to triphop. She writes and sings in three languages (En, Fr, Nl).

ZEM performs with her semi-electric harp with drum station and makes her own beats. This one-woman band mixes different styles from folk to triphop. ZEM writes and sings in three languages and brings a complete set with original songs.

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

Leave your specific wishes in the request, and receive an appropriate tailor-made 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 followed a classical harp training (private student Suzanna Mildonian), with piano as a second instrument. She also obtained a master's degree in sociology (Ugent). At the age of 16 she chooses hip-hop and piano as singer-songwriter and singer, from which a musical taste grows that ranges from soul over pop (with a participation in The Voice of Flanders in 2014) to intimate French chansons

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

Internships: Diligentia Theatre The Hague, Queen Elisabeth Hall Antwerp, Concert Hall Vooruit Ghent, Via Via Brussel, Het Depot Leuven, Ghent Festivities - Laurentplein, Bij Sint Jacobs, Biekorf Bruges, CC De Steiger Menen, Bij de Vieze Gasten, CC De Centrale, Bruges festival,...

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