📜 Overview:
Anna "Buksa" Scemelinska (1925 - 2011) was a Latvian folksinger. She learned her song repertoire and singing style from her parents and villagers. She sang in the Rekova Church Choir in 1956, and has also been a member of the Rekava Ethnographic Ensemble from 1980. Her mother sang religious hymns ,"godzinkas", while Anna sang traditional dainas. The singing was like the rest of her life: in harmony with nature. Marked by hard work and deep religiosity, her songs are a kind of Eastern European blues or gospel. Singers like Anna Scemelinska are storytellers. Their folk songs comprise legends, history and experience from life.
🌏 Languages Available:
Latvian
,
Russian
📆 Date Released:
2008-05-08
⌚ Running Time:
52 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
0.0
Beloved Cast
Anna Scemelinska
Narrator
Ontans Slisans
Margarita Sakina
Aloizs Bukks
Otilija Supe