Photo: Archive of Barbora Tellinger
Barbora Tellinger is a Czech-born jazz singer, composer and music teacher who spent most of her life in South Africa, only returning to her native Czechia shortly before the covid pandemic broke out. After a successful career in the South African jazz scene, she now works with her husband, Grammy-nominated pianist John Fresk, performing under the name Tellinger and Fresk.
Born in Karlovy Vary, Barbora left the former Czechoslovakia with her parents at the age of five. I recently interviewed her after attending an intimate jazz concert which she hosted in her Prague apartment, and started right at the beginning – by asking her what prompted her parents to move halfway across the world to a country, climate and environment as different from communist Czechoslovakia as you could possibly get.
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Author: Anna Fodor