In a musical career that spans over almost 20 years, Teodora Enache has built a genuine cultural bridge between Romania - her homeland, and the USA - the land of jazz. Her first major project, which launched her first of all on the European music scene (in 2002) and then in the USA as well (in 2003), was called BACK TO THE ROOTS. In 2004 she was sent to the USA by the American Government, through the International Visitors Program, and thus she managed to further develop the bridge between the Romanian and the American jazz.
Teodora was described by the UPI (E. Evita) as ”the new Ella Fitzgerald, coming from Romania”. In 2004, she released in California the first jazz DVD featuring Romanian musicians – “Teodora Enache and Johnny Raducanu - 2 Icons of Jazz”. Teodora and Johnny received two awards for the best musical on the West Coast at the Poppy Jasper Festival. Since 2004, she performed with renowned jazz musicians like Curtis Fuller, Les Paul, Stanley Jordan, Ricardo Scale, Darius Brubeck, Burton Greene in important venues in the USA, such as: the Library of Congress, the Corcoran Museum, the Art Museum and the Legion of Honour Museum in San Francisco, Columbia University, CalTech University and the Kuumbwa Jazz Centre.
In the meantime, she continued to tour throughout the world – in Montreal, Montreux, Marciac, Budapest, Panama, Paris, Vienna, Milan, Stockholm, Strasbourg.
Teodora was awarded with the Excellence Prize for the most important international contribution by a Romanian jazz musician - by the Romanian Broadcasting Company (Societatea Română de Radiodifuziune).
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