Luna Zegers is a Dutch jazz and flamenco singer who is the first and only non-Spanish in the world to finish the official career in flamenco singing programme in Spain, at the prestigious ESMUC conservatory in Barcelona.
After graduating ‘cum laude’ (with honours) as a jazz singer at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2010, Luna left for Spain to study flamenco singing. She completed this education in 2015 with a graduation concert entirely consisting of self-written pieces, for which she received high marks.
Luna’s album Entre Dos Mundos, with music she composed and arranged for a 14-piece ensemble, is the reflection of this repertoire. Leading music magazine Jazzism wrote: ‘At Entre Dos Mundos, the passion gushes out and Luna gives an amazing sample of her skills. (…) She clearly dominates all facets of flamenco singing, which splashes off in the last couple of tracks that constantly sizzle and strike with lightning.’
Luna’s childhood was marked by a tragic family history, in which she lost both her parents and her sister. These events inspired her to write the book ‘SOLO’, in which she reports on her grieving processes. On another layer of the story, Luna takes the reader on a journey, including to India where she discovered flamenco, and talks frankly about her impetuous love life right through the difficult years. SOLO is also an ode to music and to the comfort that this art form can offer. Book critic Charles Kuijpers wrote about SOLO: ‘The book deserves five twinkling stars, it is of the outside category and almost obligatory reading.’