Zaza Korinteli better known by his stage name

Stage name

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 Zumba (born December 29, 1973) is a Georgian

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 rock musician, folklorist and civic activist. His music fuses a wide variety of genres, principally Georgian folk tradition, rock, and reggae

Reggae

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. Being a multi-instrumentalist

Multi-instrumentalist

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 on guitar, bass, wind instruments, percussions, and vocals, he leads the band ZumbaLand and also collaborates within several other musical projects. His stage name is an acronym of a Georgian phrase zogjer ubralod moindome, bolos agisruldeba (ზოგჯერ უბრალოდ მოინდომე ბოლოს აგისრულდება), translated as "Just wish sometimes – it will eventually come true."

Biography

Born in Tbilisi

Tbilisi

Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form T'pilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...

, Korinteli graduated from the Department of Psychology, Tbilisi State University

Tbilisi State University

Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University , better known as Tbilisi State University , is a university established on 8 February 1918 in Tbilisi, Georgia. TSU is the oldest university in the whole Caucasus region...

 and 1997-2000 Kraków Academy of Modern Music and Jazz. He founded his first band in 1993 and named it ZumbaLand. The group initially performed in the streets, parks and metro stations

Tbilisi Metro

The Tbilisi Metro is a rapid transit Metro system in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Opened in 1966 it became the fourth Metro system in the former Soviet Union. Like most ex-Soviet Metros, most of the stations are very deep and vividly decorated....

 of Tbilisi and recorded its debut album "I am waiting for the sunrise" in 1995. It went on to win two nationwide rock music festivals in 1996. In 1997, Korinteli disbanded the group and moved to Kraków

Kraków

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, Poland

Poland

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, where the band was reincarnated featuring Georgian, Polish, Ukrainian

Ukraine

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, and American

United States

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 musicians. This line-up toured Poland at the end of the 1990s and recorded the album "Project Union" in 2000. The same year, Korinteli returned to Georgia and assembled a new band which has since maintained its lineup. It has since recorded three studio albums "Euroremonti" (2002), Jolo (2004) and Adila (2006), staged nationwide tours and performed at various festivals and concerts in Georgia, Ukraine, and Russia

Russia

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, including jamming with the American jazz

Jazz

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 musicians Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis and Richard Bona

Richard Bona

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Soundtracks for films “Travelling in folklore”; “Adila”, “Everything will be all right”. Theater music: “New year’s Tale” (Poland), “People from Yesterday” (Liberty Theatre)

In 2007 Zaza Korinteli song "Hello, Abkhazia " has won the national competition "Patrinote" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkviewTHEoU
Korinteli is also known for his work as a cultural ambassador for Georgia and his promotion of Georgian folk music and folklore in general. He founded, in 2004, and has since managed an annual summertime folk culture festival Art-Gene hosted by Open Air Museum of Ethnography

Open Air Museum of Ethnography, Tbilisi

The Giorgi Chitaia Open Air Museum of Ethnography is an open-air museum in Tbilisi, Georgia, displaying the examples of folk architecture and craftwork from various regions of the country. The museum is named after Giorgi Chitaia, a Georgian ethnographer, who founded the museum on April 27, 1966...

at Tbilisi. The festival also tours across Georgia, popularizing Georgian folk culture and collecting its obscure examples in the countryside.
In 2009, Zaza Korinteli recorded CD album of his new musical project AstroGeorgia. AstroGeorgia represents a musical performance of the “world music” (The whole project could be also called as “World Music from Georgia”). Zaza Korinteli's new musical project's first tour was in Baltic countries (Estonia-Tallinn: open air festival "World Days"-in Estonia, Latvia-Riga, Lithuania-Vilnius, Vilkija, Kaunas.) International Festival "Art-Gene"-in Georgia, Black Sea Jazz Festival-Georgia (where participated in great musicians: Hugh Masekela, Mike Stern, Dave Weckl, Randy Brecker, Chris Minh Doky, Roy Hargrove). Zaza Korinteli-Zumba is founder of the "World Music Festival In Mestia", he was main organizer of the "5 star October" in Batumi.
In 2009 Zaza korinteli founded Non profit organization "Tsami", one of the goal of organization is Development of traditional and modern culture and art. www.tsami.ge

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Discography

2010-"AstroGeorgia"

2006-"Adila"

2005-"mgzavruli"

2004-"Jolo"/"Raspberry"

2002-"EuroRemont"

2000-"project union" (Poland)

1995-"I'm waiting for sun rise"