The singer-songwriter Luna and the composer Farzia Fallah are honored by GEMA with the German Music Author Prize in the Young Talent category. This award, which is endowed with 10,000 euros, honors talents who “enrich the current music scene with extraordinary compositions and texts and set new accents in their genre”, as the Society for Musical Performance and Mechanical Reproduction Rights (GEMA) announced on Wednesday in Munich.
Alina Striedl, who comes from Lower Bavaria, has already caused a stir at the age of 20 under the stage name Luna. “She’s young, she’s brave. Luna and her music stand for the fact that it’s right to stand up for yourself, your feelings and your very own identity,” said the jury about the up-and-coming winner in the entertainment music category. “Her unique voice is not only to be emphasized as an ensemble – she gives her generation a voice with her attitude, her topics and her commitment to modern German pop.”
In the category of serious music, the jury honored the Iranian Farzia Fallah, who lives in Germany, as an exceptional composer. “In recent years, Farzia Fallah has quietly developed a work that impresses with its precision in both the search for the creation of the sound and the expression.” The 42-year-old, who was born in Tehran, manages to compose powerful explosions without making it seem melodramatic. “With Farzia Fallah, advanced music is not in conflict with the beauty of sound and the vividness of form.
