Tokunbo

The award-winning singer-songwriter TOKUNBO, former frontwoman of the acoustic soul-jazz combo Tok Tok Tok, is coming to the Pavillon with a brand new album in her luggage. With her new work, TOKUNBO skilfully continues the history of folk noir and continues the album journey that she once began with the darkly beautiful album Queendom Come and which culminated in the much-acclaimed album Golden Days. TOKUNBO is now opening a new musical chapter. With her unmistakable voice, poetic storytelling and elegant instrumentation, she once again creates a sonic universe between folk, jazzy pop and warm-hearted country melancholy. Inspired by the ambiguities of life and carried by the longing to find her inner center, the new songs of the artist, who grew up between two cultures, breathe emotional depth, musical experimentation and poetry. Whether on the big stage with the NDR Radiophilharmonie, in an ESC talk with Barbara Schöneberger, as a juror for the German Jazz Prize or recently in a classical music project with arias from Verdi to Handel - TOKUNBO always impressively demonstrates her artistic versatility on the one hand, and her gift for filling music with soul on the other. Live, the full magic of the song poet and storyteller par excellence unfolds in her multi-faceted voice - sometimes breathy, sometimes earthy and dark - and her unique presence.