The singer reflects on performing Roma music as a non-Roma artist, facing prejudice and earning trust within the community.

You cannot be modern by forgetting what is from you and adapting the other to yourself. Identities should not be deleted in this way. The clarinet, foundational for jazz from Sidney Bechet unto Eric ...

While Roma people are the largest ethnic minority in Czechia, comprising about 2.2 percent of its population, they are considered one of the most stigmatized and discriminated minorities in the nation ...

Roma musicians in the Balkans are renowned for playing exuberant brass band tunes at weddings. Now the brash, electric keyboard-based party sound known as ‘tallava’ is making an impact outside the ...

Through music, an all-Roma girl band in Serbia is fighting against stereotypes, discrimination and the scourge of child marriage. By the age of 17, Zlata Ristic had a husband and child. In 2020, aged ...

SKOPJE, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, January 15 (UNHCR) - Membership in The Roma Talents, the one and only refugee band in Suto Orizari, may not make Roki and his friends famous. But ...

SKOPJE, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, September 27 (UNHCR) - Esma Redzepova Teodosievska is known around the Balkans region as the Queen of Roma Music. A Roma born in Skopje with Jewish, ...