Eva Kurowski

{{Sources exist|date=February 2025}}{{short description|German jazz musician and singer (born 1965)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}}

'''Eva Kurowski''' (born 1965) is a German jazz musician and singer.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bloom.de/articles/article_002291_php4.htm|title=Eva Kurowski - Reich ohne Geld|last=Schmidt|first=Kai|work=Bloom|language=German|accessdate=7 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vordenker.de/hungertuch/kurowski2011.htm|title=va Kurowski aus Oberhausen–Eisenheim erhält in Anerkennung ihres künstlerischen Werks das Hungertuch für Musik 2011|last=Hagedorn|first=Matthias|date=February 2011|publisher=Vordenker|language=German|accessdate=18 December 2011}}</ref>

==Life== Kurowski was born in the Ruhr area in 1965. Music was a constant presence in her life from an early age. A shawm band performed during her birth and the music of Billie Holiday was played on the record player at her home.<ref name="WAZ 2016">{{cite news |last1=Hagemann |first1=Heidi |title=Heimat in Bad Mülheim gefunden |url=https://www.waz.de/staedte/muelheim/article11881469/heimat-in-bad-muelheim-gefunden.html |access-date=13 December 2024 |work=Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung |date=3 June 2016 |language=de}}</ref> Walter, her father, is a jazz musician and plays in many clubs in the Ruhr Valley, (K-14 in Oberhausen, Blue-Note in Eisenheim), and therefore she was exposed to jazz from an early age.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} She and her father, a communist, would participate in Easter marches and sing worker's songs.<ref name="WAZ 2016" />

She currently tours the Ruhr area with her jazz band.{{clarify|date=January 2025}}

Her book "Avanti Popoloch: Eine sozialistische Kindheit im Ruhrgebiet" ({{ISBN|3938834331}}) was published in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/427588|title=Eva Kurowski läßt den Ruhr-ge-Beat swingen|last=Hagedorn|first=Matthias|publisher=SudDeutsche Zeitung|language=German|accessdate=22 December 2011}}</ref> In "Gott schmiert keine Stullen", published in 2012 by Rowohlt Polaris, she recollects her childhood.<ref name="WAZ 2016" /><ref>{{cite news |title=Eva Kurowski liest "Stullen" digital für die Ludwiggalerie |url=https://www.waz.de/lokales/article402531375/eva-kurowski-liest-stullen-digital-fuer-die-ludwiggalerie.html |access-date=13 December 2024 |work=Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung |date=20 May 2021 |language=de}}</ref>

==Music== Kurowski writes her own music and words, based in a classical jazz sound. Her female perspective in her songs is influenced by daily life in the Ruhr Valley, and alternates between pop, children's songs and jazz.

''Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung'' described her as the "Billie Holiday of structural change [...] With a voice as black as coal..." ("Billie Holiday des Strukturwandels [...] Mit einer Stimme schwarz wie Kohle..."), and likened her to a "female Helge" ("weiblicher Helg"), for the breadth of her musical experience.<ref>{{cite news |title=Eva Kurowski kommt zum Jazzabend ins Langenberger Kunsthaus |url=https://www.waz.de/staedte/velbert/article213920849/eva-kurowski-kommt-zum-jazzabend-ins-langenberger-kunsthaus.html |access-date=13 December 2024 |work=Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung |date=4 April 2018 |language=de}}</ref>

==Discography== * ''Reich ohne Geld'' (''Empire Without Money'') (2002, Roof-Music)<ref>{{DNB portal|135271010|NAME=Kurowski, Eva}}</ref>

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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110929031608/http://www.evakurowski.de/ Official site of Eva Kurowski] * [https://archive.today/20130206203233/http://www.fischerverlage.de/autor/Eva_Kurowski/21398 Biography at Fischer Verlage]

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