About Me
Aziza A was born in 1971, in Berlin, the daughter of a Turkish family living
in Germany. She started her career in 1996, presenting the children's program,
Dr. Mag, which went on air every Saturday on ZDF, Germany's second-biggest TV
channel. Meanwhile, with a growing interest in music and the hip-hop culture,
she started taking music courses.
First taking stage in Berlin (Franzclub, Quasimodo, A-Trane, Tranenpalast and
Féte de la Musique), Aziza gradually got more and more involved in music and took
a major step to make it the crucial part of her life.
Her first album, Es ist Zeit (It's Time), was released in 1997.
She launched a tour of Germany, Hungary, France, Switzerland, Holland, Austria,
China and Portugal to support her album. Following the great success she gained
by her debut album, Aziza A became known as the first Turkish hip-hopper Lady
in Germany, and her name was listed among that year's 100 most important people
by Zitty magazine, published in Berlin. BBC World TV referred to her as the "New
European."
Brought up among Turks, the largest minority group in Germany, Aziza A breathes
a new life and voice into hip-hop and cunningly reflects the simplicity, attraction
and truth of life through her music, which is a blend of funk, soul, jazz
and R&B, all rooted with the special oriental sounds. As an artist, she created a new musical
language..
Courtesy Calabash Music
MUSIC:
Es
ist Zeit 1996 Germany / Orient Express Records
