Beirut

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21.12.2007 00:00
Performance by Prince was ranked higher than Led Zeppelin’s show
Britain newspaper The Daily Telegraph named top 10 gigs of the year. They put Prince’s series of cocerts at O2 Arena in London on the first place.

Biography

Beirut was a one-person project from the USA that eventually grew into a band. It was formed by Zach Condon in 2002 to feature the indie-rock music flavored abundantly with the Balkan music elements. Zach was born in Santa Fe in a family of a guitarist, but the guitar became his least respected instrument. The boy was a desperate fan of music and started his own experiments with sound very early. Spending days and nights in the most remote room of the house, he mastered various instruments, combined them and extended their sounding with computer programming. Zach never had a teacher and learned to play himself, but he later admitted that he lacked professional singing training. By sixteen, the young talent had already recorded the album, The Real People, to be never released. However, many ideas realized on that record were later applied in the frames of the Beirut project. Zach was a bad pupil and never obtained a good education. Instead of going to college, he preferred travelling. The first trip to Europe brought him the clear idea of what to play as a professional musician. While in Paris, he came to a conclusion that this would be the Balkan music, whose representatives were extremely popular in France. Back in the States, he quickly found the like-minded musicians, drummer Jeremy Barnes and violinist Heather Trost.

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