Eda Koyagasioglu aka La Dee Eda is a Turkish Singer&Songwriter, Pianist, Producer.

It is easy to point to Eric’s accomplishments. A ﬁve-decade career recording with folk and blues royalty. Two Grammy nominations and multiple Blues Foundation awards.
A following that not only crosses borders, it crosses continents. But what Eric Bibb is after is much, much larger than that.
 
To meet Eric is to be struck by both his humility and his warmth. There is no pretense in him. He is remarkably centered, his convictions based in the values of the civil rights movement of the sixties.
Eric’s music works in service of that dream, holding out a hope for a new world. He challenges us to do better, to reach higher, and strive harder. Like Mavis and Pops Staples, he wants to take us there.
 
Eric carries this mantle honestly. His father, the late Leon Bibb, was an activist, actor, and folk singer who marched at Selma with Dr. Martin Luther King. Eric’s youth was spent immersed in the Village folk scene. Names like Dylan, Baez, and Seeger were visitors to his home. He was deeply inﬂuenced by Odetta, Richie Havens, and Taj Mahal. And he has synthesized all of that into his very own style.
 
Eric is an artist who preserves the best traditions of pre-war blues, even while he expands his own oeuvre. Marketing tags him as a bluesman, but troubadour is the word that best describes him. He slides neatly between genres as he builds bridges with musicians from the UK and Europe, pickers from North America, and Kora players from West Africa. His collaborations with the likes of Michael Jerome Browne, JJ Milteau, Danny Thompson, and Habib Koite have produced music that is both ecstatic and exquisite.

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