Jiska | Konzert

In the organizer's words:

JISKA's music is the gateway to a brightly colored, tipsy, untidy, relaxed world. Ancient soul dynamics meet youthful indie pop attitude. JISKA has a maximally international feel - and not just because of the English-language lyrics - and is reminiscent of the releases of the young Lilly Allen in its lightness and vigilance. The scratchy, warm voice always seems only centimeters away from the listener's ear and is always in the foreground without ever imposing itself.

JISKA, real name Jana Franziska Binder, was born in 1999 in the greater Stuttgart area and has been surrounded by music from her very first breath. Her grandfather runs a music school, her mother and uncle are professional musicians, and blues and soul records are constantly on rotation in the living room at home. JISKA plays the violin from an early age, sees the inside of backstages before she enters a school building and becomes a bass player in a youth band at the age of eleven. She was writing her own English-language lyrics long before she left school. Although she successfully completed her training as a speech therapist between 2018 and 2020, music was always at the forefront of her mind. In spring 2020, shortly before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, JISKA dared to go public with her first solo release. Even though she was initially denied live performances, the subsequent releases spread far and wide across the music and media landscape.

After completing her training, JISKA spends two months in Valencia, Spain, where she records her debut EP "Wild Blue Yonder", which is released in July 2022 and contains the first seven-digit streamed hit "Girl Next Door". JISKA then tours Germany with Betterov and Rhodes. She rotates on the radio, is nominated for the New Music Award 2022 by Deutschlandfunk Nova, featured on SWR Kultur, among others, and accepted into the "Bandpool" support program of the Popakademie Mannheim. Gigs at renowned events such as SZIGET Budapest and Jazz Open Stuttgart were followed by the release of their debut album "Socially Awkward" in April 2025.