Lidia Valenta (born Lidia Valentinovna Nebaba (rus.: Лидия Валентиновна Небаба)) is a singer, songwriter and musician. Her style incorporates elements of pop, jazz, folk, art song, world, and ballads.
Valenta has performed at major music venues in Russia and Europe, including the Buryat State Opera and Ballet Theater in Ulan-Ude, Central House of Art Professionals in Moscow, Jupiter Concert Hall in Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin,[3] Russian House of Science and Culture[4] in Berlin and the Russian Centre of Culture and Science in Rome.[5]
Valenta writes most of her own songs, but she also draws inspiration from Russian, German, British, and American poetry.
In 2015, she formed the Lidia Valenta Band with jazz-pianist and Hammond organistJo Aldinger, drummer Tim Hahn and double bass player Clemens Voyé.[6][7]
Tours
2015 – "Love"
2016 – "Change of Scene"
2017 – "Echo"
2018 – "Night Train"
2019 – "Weihnachten"
2020 – "Oblaka"
Discography
Singles
Nochnoj Poezd (2010)
Follow me (2011)
Not Enough (2013)
Flowless (2013)
I Can't Resist (2014)
I Miss You (2015)
To The Disco (2015)
Song cycles
Night Train (2013): Six Russian Art Songs -songs on poems by Vladimir Isaichev
Valenta is also an environmental activist. In September 2012, she was a member of an expedition that flew across Lake Baikal in a hot air balloon to draw attention to environmental issues related to preserving Baikal's ecosystem.[8]
Art and design
In 2014, Valenta began her work as a visual artist and designer, working primarily with porcelain. She collaborated with Dresden Porcelain, one of Germany's oldest porcelain factories, and with Holger John, a German artist whose Dresden art gallery has exhibited her work.[9] The porcelain pieces are handmade and hand-painted.
In April 2016, Valenta combined two art genres, modern art on porcelain and music. Her art song exhibition called "Porcelain Pop" was shown in the historic Barock Gewandhaus in Dresden.[10]
Valenta showed pieces of the collection at the first international porcelain biennale in the Albrechtsburg Castle in Meissen, the birthplace of European porcelain.[11]
