was born in Prague, where she studied graphic design. For some time Antonia used her artistic talent in interior design, graphic design and body art. She also worked with avant-garde dance and theatre group Faux Pas, but subsequently fell deeply for music. She started to work with her voice in an female a cappella group called Eterity and as a percussionist for Monika Rebcova’s dance group BaToCu. Antonia also performs with her husband Papis Nyass, originally from the Gambia, in their project Mama Africa as well as on other projects. Antonia is a devoted wife and mother of two, and since 2005 has also been a devoted Yellow Sisters member.
Comes from a musical family, but fully devoted herself to singing only after finishing journalism studies at Charles University in Prague. She started as a vocalist in afro-hip-hop band Forbidden Fruit and later created the base of the original repertoir of Funky Fiest band. She appeared in a number of other projects like Gang-ala-Basta, Levelrise etc. After a one year stay in Australia she performed some of her songs with soul-jazz project Yellow Family, where she took part on the vocal arrangement and with singers Léňa and Markéta Foukalová she got to know the power of female multivoice. She cooperates on an improvisational basis with the Flying Carpet /Létající koberec/ and number of Djs, but first and foremost she shares her life journey with the Yellow Sisters Léňa, Hawa, Toni and their families. Bara dances and sings for one heart.
Dancer, choreographer and singer HawaLu is enchanted by different cultures. She has travelled and studied in Central and Northern America and has also visited the Gambia in Africa. She studied FF UK in Prague and for 7 years she worked in various fields of art therapy. In 2002 she and her husband Ephraim Goldin founded a group TiDiTaDe, which plays and dances to West African rhythms. HawaLu also teaches African dance. She started to experiment with her voice in a female a cappella called Eterity. The remaining two of the 13 original members, HawaLu and Antonia connected with Léňa and Bára in 2005. Yellow Sisters was borne of their mutual love for nature, Africa and the wild female spirit. HawaLu has a sons named Samba and Avishai, who are an eternal inspiration to her.
Léňa has been devoted to music since childhood. She graduated from Elementary Musical School as a flute player. She took up solo singing in 1999 and is currently studying jazz singing at the Jaroslav Ježek Musical Conservatory. Léňa is also graduate of the University of Economics in Prague. Léňa has taken part in many different bands and projects: Babylon Station (2002 - CD Original Recordings), Fullharmoniq, Tomato 22 and others. In 2001 and 2002 she was working together with Dalibor Cidlinský and his DC Band - P. Vavřík, J. K. Stivín, I. Myslikovjan (2001 - CD Broskve v Karamelu, 2002 - 1st place in the nation-wide composers competition “Zlín Talent“). Between 2000 - 2004 Léňa worked on her solo repertoire, which led her to form her own band Yellow Family. She also travelled around Europe and visited Africa with a street-performance programme with Bára. Léňa has been a member of Yellow Sisters since 2005.
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Yellow Sisters released their first DVD „Live at Retro Music Hall, Prague“ in October 2007! It is a recording of their launch concert for the Singalana CD. On DVD you can see unreleased songs and many guest artists, musicians and dancers. Unique projections and animations are decorating the whole concert!!! Order now, limited edition!
published 25. 10. 2007
For October 2008 Yellow Sisters prepared a variety of shows for their fans in Prague, Czech Republic. See more...
published 19. 9. 2008
After Summer appearences on Slovakian greatest festival Pohoda and five shows in Berlin, BKA Theatre, Yellow Sistersare heading for further international tours. See more...
published 19. 9. 2008
Yellow Sisters´ song Free to do was selected for an international compilation CD box Europavox, which was released in September 2008. CD box contains four Cds with selection of contemporary European music.
published 15. 9. 2008
Singalana, the debut album of Yellow Sisters, was one of 40 nominated best albums of accoustic music of the year 2007 for IAMA (Int´l Accoustic Music Awards). In section of a cappella bands appeared Singalana between the three best albums of the year!!!
published 15. 9. 2008
Yellow Sisters recorded a cover version of a main melody of animated movie Nautica for an international sampler, published in Japan for an anniversory of a Japanese studio Happinet.
published 1. 8. 2008