Biography
I was born in Budapest, Hungary on the 13th of April, 1956.
After taking my GCSE, I was an actor for a short period in Déryné Theatre and then I have joined Los Pachungos, a group playing South American folk music. In the meantime, I was admitted to the vocal jazz faculty of the Budapest School of Music, where I was graduated in 1979.
In 1976, I've founded my own group Láma. Staging performances across Hungary, this group enjoyed remarkable success in the profession and also with the audience. The group appeared in joint performances with L.G.T. and Zorán. I was contributed to L.G.T.’s 1983 concert tour in England. This was followed by a longer period of playing in a group called Oxygen in Norway.
I was returned to Hungary in 1987 and won Hungarian Television’s Hungarian Songs Contest in 1988 with my song Hóból vagyok (Made of snow). I have composed songs for several
famous hungarian stars.
1992 saw the release of my first CD under the title 908, and then Gerendás a deszkákon (Gerendás on stage) was released in 1994. In the very same year I was awarded the Liszt Prize. My next CD under the title Két hónap a nagy folyón (Two months on the big river) was released in 1997, followed by Átölel a múlt (Hugged by the past) in 1999. As the composer of the year I have received the Huszka Jenő Prize, and as the singer of the year I was awarded the Emerton Prize.
The year 2000 saw the release of my album Kamaszkorom legszebb dala (The nicest song of my teenage years) on which I used a string quartet to revive the legendary hits of the sixties and seventies. In 2001 I received the Radnóti Miklós Prize. The CD Új dimenziók (New dimensions) came out in the autumn of the same year. The double CD of the George Harrison Memorial Concert held on the 25th of February 2003 was released in November 2003.
I was awarded the Budapest Prize in 2004. My latest CDs were Memento (2004) dedicated to the remembrance of Holocaust victims, Apák könyve (The Book of Fathers, 2005) the music version of a Miklós Vámos book of the same title, composing music from Faludy’s poetry (2006) and Ötvenes kő (Fifty-year old stone, 2006). Bartók országában /The Country of Bartók 2008/ , Családregény /Family novel 2011/ for the poems of Istvan Sz. Koncz
Theatre work:
Tenger szerelmesei (Lovers of the sea): Petőfi Theatre, Sopron
Legyetek jók, ha tudtok (Be good, if you can): Gárdonyi Géza Theatre, Eger
11 perc (Eleven minutes): Thália Theatre
