GANNA

Berlin-based Ukrainian singer, songwriter, and producer GANNA creates music at the crossroads of Ukrainian folklore, electronica, jazz, and improvisation. Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork, travel, and encounters with village singers across Ukraine, she reimagines ancestral songs and oral traditions as vivid, contemporary soundscapes.

GANNA’s artistic practice is rooted in a deeply personal approach to musical transmission: preserving the memory of Ukrainian song while allowing it to evolve, transform, and speak to the present. Her music brings rural traditions, ritual voices, organic percussion, traditional instruments, electronic textures, and improvisation into a fluid and immersive dialogue.

Her acclaimed albums KUPALA (2023) and UTOPIA (2025) reflect this evolving vision. KUPALA was recognized among the best Ukrainian albums of the year, while UTOPIA, co-produced with Tomáš Kašpar and featuring musicians from jazz, traditional, and experimental music, was described by ARTE Journal as “a powerful uprising against hopelessness.” London Jazz News has praised GANNA’s “extraordinary talent—even magic—in musicology, composition, and vocals.”

Her solo performance is an immersive act of world-building. Using voice, loops, effects, samples, traditional instruments, and the guitaret-synth, GANNA builds layered compositions in real time, transforming a single melodic line into rich and unpredictable sonic landscapes. Deeply rooted in Ukrainian heritage yet boldly contemporary, her music explores memory, identity, resistance, and renewal.

A singular presence on the European scene, GANNA has performed at major international showcases including WOMEX, ESNS, and Reeperbahn Festival. Her live performances offer audiences an intimate yet expansive journey into a living Ukrainian musical tradition.