Kateryna Avdysh – a Ukrainian jazz singer, composer, and frontwoman of the AVDYSH project.
She writes music that is close to people’s hearts, infusing her roots into her compositions to create contemporary art that everyone can appreciate.
Being only 18 years old, she created her own music project in Kyiv, having a presentation at one of the biggest jazz venues there, followed by performing at Jazz Bez festival (UA-PL).
Due to the war in her home country, she relocated to Portugal, where she has been successfully continuing her artistic journey.
Performances at some of Portugal’s largest venues — MEO Arena and Dragão Arena — became turning points in her career, followed by four national tours with over 60 concerts across the country in the past years.
Kateryna’s artistic mission is to introduce audiences around the world to the Ukrainian language and music, expanding cultural borders through her work. For example, she has performed her original Ukrainian-language song together with Eurovision winner Salvador Sobral. LISTEN HERE
Now she is based in Portugal, where she already appeared on major radio stations and Portuguese TV channels, such as Rádio Comercial, Observador, Antena 1, SIC, RTP, TVI, Porto canal etc. This country saw the singer at her best during the 4 national tours, including performing at Quebra Jazz Festival, Lisboa Mistura, Periferias Festival, Cria Jazz, MEO Arena, Dragão Arena, Castelo de Leiria – just to name a few.
While touring, Kateryna released her debut full-length album, “Always Alive,” supported by the Society of Portuguese Authors.
Alongside the album, she also presented three music videos, continuing to share her vibrant and inspiring vision with audiences worldwide. WATCH HERE
Our language and culture are full of mysteries, and these mysteries will be transferred as long as the Ukrainian language lives. And only artists can save its life. I’m free as my country is and I’ll not allow to destroy my life or erase my roots.
My songs are about freedom, bravery, strength, but at the same time about our vulnerability, love, acceptance of ourselves and the unfair, but beautiful world we live in.
