Marc Secara
At the age of 20 he sang in the national youth jazz orchestra, which was a young talent forge for highly talented musicians. In 2001, he received worldwide media coverage as the first Western artist in 20 years to be allowed to tour Iran. He won first prize as best artist at the country’s most important music festival Fadjr. In 2004 he was selected as the only German artist to take part in a European concert tour on behalf of the German federal government, which was a form of musical welcome the then 10 new EU members. He made his major recording debut in 2006 with the production Strangers in the Night (Universal Records).
Secara sings title tracks in several cinema productions. With Berlin Jazz Orchestra, one of the best-known orchestras in Germany, headed by the American trombone legend Jiggs Whigham, Secara has given over a hundred concerts in the major German concert halls.
The artist is an eminent representative of the new German jazz and pop vocal scene as well as a regular guest soloist in jazz programmes of the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Deutsche Oper orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Band, and many others.
2011 saw the release of his album Now and Forever – a large-scale production with a German all-stars big band, symphony orchestra and choir. The live DVD Strangers in the Night, recorded during a concert at the Frankfurt Opera (Universal Records), was released in the same year. In 2013 Marc Secara was appointed professor of vocal art at the SHR Hochschule der populären Künste in Berlin.
Photo by G2 Baraniak
