Anna Scemelinska Biography
Anna "Buksa" Scemelinska was a Latvian folksinger. She learned her song repertoire and singing style from her parents and villagers. She sang in the Rekova Church Choir in 1956, and has also been a member of the Rekava Ethnographic Ensemble from 1980. Her mother sang religious hymns ,"godzinkas", while Anna sang traditional danias. The singing was like the rest of her life: in harmony with nature.
Marked by hard work and deep religiosity, her songs are a kind of Eastern European blues or gospel. Singers like Anna Scemelinska are storytellers. Their folk songs comprise legends, history and experience from life.
Show More
Anna Scemelinska Movies
Trending Celebrities
Movie and TV Reviews
Top Movies
Become a better you.
What happens behind these walls will change everything.
Don’t look back.
Succumb to the darkness.
Top Series
There's more to work than life.
Read between the lies.
Reacher's back.
Truth has been weaponized.
Same luxury. New reservations.