Laura Faragó - singer, folk singer, music teacher "I was born in Pécel in a family of eleven children, but my soul was born in folk poetry. My mother was the daughter of a Reformed minister, so church music was also a daily occurrence at home. I have five older and five younger siblings, so I was always included in a group of people who sang:' (Laura Faragó) She graduated from the Szeged Teacher Training College in 1971, majoring in Hungarian singing and music, and then at the Berlin Hans Eisler Academy of Music in song and oratorio graduated as a singer in 1979. In 1970, Hungarian Radio and Television broadcast the first national "Fly, Peacock!" the grand prize winner of his folk song competition, and in the same year in England he won 1st place at the international Middlesbrough Folk Song Competition. In 2014, he was awarded the Hungarian Heritage Award, and in 2015, he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Republic Order of Merit. His independent records: Szivární havasán (Hungarian folk songs); Júlia beautiful girl (ballads and folk songs); From the centuries of Hungarian song (songs with piano accompaniment). His books: Our Holidays (1999, Vincze Papírmítő Műhely); My homeland, my sonorous mother tongue - with CD attachment (2003, Masszi Publishing House; 2015, Napkút Publishing House); The beautiful scent of joy fills my heart - with CD attachment (2014, Magyar Napló Kiadó) ,Laura Faragó, with the singing of this flower-throated woman, it was always as if a white dove was flying in the stone-laced tower of a Gothic cathedral, in the cold stone pipe, beating with its bleeding wing feathers, the sound of beating wings, the throbbing of a feverish heartbeat rises higher and higher, towards infinity, but there is no escape from the windowless blind tower. This is an unforgettable ancient slavery, yet omnipotent and eternal:' (Ferenc Juhász) "If Áron Tamási's law of the gravity of existence is true: the Hungarian folk tradition must also be at home somewhere in the rainbow of worlds even today, when the scenery and customs of life have changed they move away from everything that is old:' (Aladár Lászlóffy)