Yara Linss

An artist who knows both the sun of the South and the fog of the North. A multilingual world citizen and yet somehow firmly rooted in her Middle Franconian home. She is the daughter of a Brazilian woman and a German, saw the light of day in São Paolo in 1980 and moved to Germany at the age of four with her parents. Yara, who already distinguishes herself with her double "s" from the last name of Ivan Lins, the (unrelated) old master of the "Música Popular Brasileira", grew up in Ulm, took violin lessons there, sang in the Ulmer Spatzen choir and gained initial experience in an orchestra. One day, she discovered the music that her mother has always kept hidden in her record cabinet: Bossa Nova, the elegance and lightness of the songs of Elis Regina and Astrud Gilberto. From then on, Yara Linss knew who should be her role models. After one year of jazz studies in Maastricht, she studied at Nuremberg University of Music, and her voice enchanted a wider audience for the first time in 2007 when she substituted for Maria João, who was ill, at the Nuremberg Stimmenfang Festival. The singer was awarded the culture scholarship of the city of Nuremberg in 2008, and she won the Bruno-Rother Competition at Nuremberg University of Music in 2009.