Who is she?

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Livia Gazzolo is a Kurdish-American world music vocalist based in Chicago, IL who has spent the past few years exploring the connectivity of cultures through music. At this moment, she is most interested in cultivating a global perspective, illuminating her Kurdish roots and introducing audiences to the commonalities and differences among cultural traditions. Over the past decade, Livia built an innovative musical repertoire that spans geography, epochs, language and musical genres. Through her love of music and history, Livia has sewn together her own quilt of cultures and invites audiences to bask in its embrace. Most recently, she extended her artistic practice to include live performance in front of silent films from the early 1900's, using music as a modern lens by which to illuminate historical patterns in the films that are still relevant today. For more information about the silent film project, visit the Gazzolo Productions page.