Ingrid Lukas

Ingrid Lukas (born 20 August 1984, Estonia) is a vocalist, pianist and composer. She currently resides in Switzerland. She featured as part of the Swiss Government's official entertainment series for athletes and the public at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Biography
Ingrid's music career started at the age of five years and three days, on August 23rd 1989, exactly 50 years after the Hitler-Stalin pact was signed, while she joined hands and sang along with millions of people who demanded freedom and independence for the Baltic states. The so-called Baltic chain was an uninterrupted 600-kilometer human chain joining the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Since that day, it had been clear for Ingrid, that she wanted to make singing her purpose in life. Exactly on that day she set out on her music career, first by playing the classical piano at the Tallinn music school and after emigrating to Switzerland she kept up her musical interests despite her enthusiasm for competitive swimming. In 2000, she composed her first set of pop-soul songs. To gain more profound knowledge and professional depth, she took up her studies of Music at HMT Zürich in 2002. By focusing on arrangement and composition the crucial question arose as to what one?s musical identity actually was. Thus, not surprisingly she made this quest the subject of her diploma paper: How to Find One's Own Style in Music. Her research brought her closer again to the Estonian oral history of music. Thus folklore and the archaic simplicity of the Estonian singing culture with its characteristic repetitions have come to influence her compositions to this day. With times she has increasingly more often been writing songs in Estonian. The music of such composers and artists as Arvo Pärt, Björk, Bugge Wesseltoft, Sidsel Endresen and Nik Bärtsch have influenced her work so far.

Yet another questions is of great importance to her, both with regard to music and life in general, namely "How little is enough?". By this, she means to aim at a strict restriction to substance (reduce to the max). The way she is to reach this is by acribic revision, by working and reworking on what is there and thus stripping it off all unnecessary until the simple essence reveals itself.

Discography

 * Albumns
 * We Need to Repeat - (Ronin Rhythm Records, 2009)
 * Silver Secrets (Universal Music, 2011)


 * Singles
 * Solitude - Metamorphosis feat. Ingrid Lukas (Double Moon Records & Jazzthing, 2009)
 * No Lie - DJ Tatana feat. Ingrid Lukas (2012)