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Jazz as a cultural bridge

Elina Duni left her roots in Albania at the age of ten and moved to Switzerland. A former student of Bern’s Swiss Jazz School, she combines folk songs from the Balkans with modern jazz - a way of bringing her two worlds together. (Michele Andina, swissinfo.ch)

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