Helia Samadzadeh

"Languages are the feet carrying me through the world. Singing, however, gives me wings to fly... into another world."

Born in 1982 in Vienna, Helia Samadzadeh starts playing the cello at the age of five and at ten the piano. In 1992 she has her first stage musical debut with the West Austrian Musical Company (WAMCO) as little Cosette in Les Misérables and Dorothy in The Wizard Of Oz. At 13 she takes singing lessons with her father Habib Samadzadeh. Later she holds her first solo concerts and continues her musical performances, e.g. as the Narrator in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Maria in Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. At the age of 19 she is awarded the first prize at the Prima la Musica music competition (with distinction).
In 2007 Helia graduates from Innsbruck University with a master's degree in conference interpreting (English/French).
She now lives and works in Paris. Since June 2010 she has been taking singing lessons with Anna Ringart.

"Music, too, is a language. It's just that it doesn't need any words to be understood. It directly addresses one's heart."