Zulya and The Children of the Underground

Distinguished Artist of Tatarstan ZULYA KAMALOVA is a multifaceted artist as well as the leading proponent of original Tatar music in Australia and the world. Since her move to Australia in 1991 ZULYA has developed a totally original approach which takes her Tatar and
Australian identity to totally new places and in completely new ways. ZULYA has independently produced nine albums to date, including ARIA-nominated "elusive" and together with her band THE CHILDREN OF THE UNDERGROUND – ARIA-winning "3 nights".

The band features some of the most accomplished musicians of Melbourne (Anthony Schulz – accordion, Aviva Endean – clarinet, Andrew Tanner – double bass, Lucas Michailidis – guitar, Phil Collings -drums). They have made 4 albums which were also released in Europe and held top 10 rankings in the European world music charts - a first for any Australian act. They have presented several theme concerts “Fairytale Noir”, “Russian Evolution” “Lhasa-Berlin” and have toured extensively in Australia and overseas including recently representing Australia at the international Sharq Taronalari in Uzbekistan, inaugural Russian Womad and Creation of Peace Festival, along with a National live to air broadcast at Vienna's Radiokulturhaus, Austria. Their most recent release "On Love and Science" is a collaboration with a visual artist Dilka Bear (Slovenia).