{"id":1431,"date":"2025-05-14T11:43:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T09:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.valeriesajdik.com\/bio\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T17:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T15:00:35","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/valeriesajdik.com\/en\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography Valerie Sajdik"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Biography<\/div>

My story<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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BIOGRAPHY OF VALERIE SAJDIK<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Valerie Sajdik was born on April 2nd in the wine-making region close to Vienna, Austria. Due to her parents\u00b4 profession, Valerie had a peripatetic childhood in Moscow, where she attended French School. Valerie speaks (and sings!), German, French and English fluently and has a working knowledge of Russian.<\/strong>

Aged 14, Valerie made her stage debut with her first release.<\/strong> A year later, Valerie interned for a classical singer, Barbara Skipworth, in Pennsylvania , accompanying her to New York as a page turner for Kurt Weill recitals. Valerie developed a love for live performance and received her first singing lessons.<\/p>

Valerie\u2019s travels continued to New York, where she discovered the Jazz scene and shortly after was inspired to study jazzsinging at the Vienna Konservatorium.
Soon after, Valerie started playing gigs in the jazz cellars in Vienna with her electro-jazz band, Valeriesgarden<\/strong>. Simultaneously, she began some experimentation work with German lyrics and achieved her first chart successes with the girl band, \u201cC-bra\u201d<\/strong> followed by a tour through Austria, Germany and Switzerland.<\/p>

Valerie also gathered experience as a stage actress and singer, appearing in the play \u201eDas Dorf an der Grenze<\/em>\u201c<\/strong>, (The Village at the Boarder) at the city theatre in Klagenfurt. In the play, she interpreted songs by the band \u201eNaked Lunch<\/em>\u201c. As well as pursuing her acting and musical career, Valerie also continued her law studies which she started in Vienna and then finished at the Universit\u00e9 Ren\u00e9 Descartes Paris in 2002.<\/p>

Valerie immersed herself in the Parisian music scene and one of her music projects brought her to the little village of \u2018Saint Privat\u2019 in the deep South. There, she built up a music studio with C-bra producer David Bronner, to develop the first songs for her solo career<\/strong>. The village of Saint Privat, surrounded by vineyards and olivetrees, turned out to be a place of auspicious creativity, lending its name to a musical collaboration with the Austrian dub and down tempo artist Klaus Waldeck<\/strong>. Two of the \u201eSaint Privat\u201c band members were former members of \u201cValeriesgarden\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Collaboration & solo albums<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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After the big surprise success of Saint Privat\u00b4s first album \u201eRiviera<\/em>\u201c<\/strong> in 2004 with the hit single \u201eTous les jours<\/em>\u201c, Valerie went on world tour and together with Klaus Waldeck won \u201eNewcomer of the Year<\/em>\u201c at the Amadeus Music Awards.<\/strong> The second album, \u201cSuperflu<\/em>\u201c<\/strong>, (2006), to which Valerie made a sizeable contribution to the lyrics, also experienced commercial and critical success.<\/p>

In the interim, Valerie penned many more chansons in both French and German in her studio in the South of France. Her endeavours were rewarded by the signing of a solo deal with Sony Austria. The album \u201ePicknick<\/em>\u201c<\/strong> is released in 2007 with the hit single \u201eM\u00e4dchen<\/em>\u201c (for which Valerie received the Amadeus Award for \u201cSong of the Year<\/em>\u201d), and \u201eRegen\u201c, which stayed in the Austrian charts for 29 weeks, often in the Top 10.<\/p>

In Germany, the hit \u201eRegen<\/em>\u201c enjoyed similar success, reaching number 2 in the charts voted by listeners of the Radio NDR. Valerie\u2019s second solo album \u201eIch bin du bist<\/em>\u201c was launched in 2010 and till now is perhaps the most personal of Valerie\u00b4s albums, receiving many good reviews. With this album in her \u2018back pocket\u2019, Valerie was invited to perform at the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver<\/strong>, at the Midem in Cannes and at a one week Festival of Chinese and Austrian Contemporary Music in Beijing and Shanghai.<\/p>

Following an invitation from musicmanager Willi T\u00fcrk, Valerie performed in the imperial town of Bad Ischl, in Upper Austria, as a surprise guest with the \u201eA, B, C and D of Boogie Woogie with Jools Holland, British star musician and entertainer<\/em>, and Rolling Stones Drummer Charlie Watts. Valerie had the privilege of participating at a nation-wide tour with Jools Holland<\/strong>, and in June 2011, they recorded \u201eWohin die Liebe f\u00e4llt\/Wheel of fortune<\/em>\u201c, written by Holland as a homage to Edith Piaf in the Helicon Mountain Studios in London. The song will appear in his upcoming album \u201eJools Holland and friends\u201c (released on the 16th of September 2011) alongside songs recorded with Sting, Bono, BB King and German artists like Herbert Gr\u00f6nemeyer, Ina M\u00fcller and Roger Cicero. Earlier that year, Valerie was to return to New York City to record some vocals on a jazzproduction of \u201cPudditorium<\/em>\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>

In 2013 Valerie releases her solo album \u201eLes Nuits Blanche<\/em>s<\/em>\u201c<\/strong> on her own label \u201eFledermaus Records\u201c.
In 2021 she releases the album “Funambule<\/strong><\/em>” with self-penned jazz songs in collaboration with the jazz pianist C\u00e9dric Chauveau. In 2025 they release their chanson-cover album “Amiti\u00e9s<\/em><\/strong>“.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Concerts<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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2024: 2024: In New York, Valerie delights the audience at the Neue Galerie\u2019s Cafe Sabarsky<\/a> with John di Martino.<\/p>

2023: Opening of the Vienna Theatre Festival<\/strong> in Austria, on the town hall square in front of several thousand people and broadcast live on Austrian television.<\/p>

2023: Grand Hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus, with \u2018Paris, je t’aime\u2019<\/strong> and much more.<\/p>

Since 2018, regular concerts at the Neue Galerie in New York City<\/strong> as part of the Cabaret Series.<\/p>

Other shows in:
Beijing,<\/strong>
Shanghai,<\/strong>
Estonia,<\/strong>
France,<\/strong>
Germany,<\/strong>
Switzerland,<\/strong>
Sweden,<\/strong>
and many more.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>

2012 : Finalist of Jeux de la Francophonie<\/strong> in Nice – Broadcast on TV5 Monde.<\/p>

2010 : Jeux de la Francophonie<\/strong> in Vancouver.<\/p>

2010: Tour with Jools Holland<\/strong> in Austria, Switzerland and Germany<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Albums<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Stella Story<\/strong><\/em>, 2002<\/p>

Riviera<\/strong><\/em>, Saint Privat, 2005<\/p>

Superflu<\/strong><\/em>, Saint Privat, 2007<\/p>

Picknick<\/strong><\/em>, 2008<\/p>

Ich bin du bist<\/strong><\/em>, 2010<\/p>

Les Nuits Blanches<\/strong><\/em>, 2012<\/p>

Funambule<\/strong><\/em>, 2021<\/p>

Apr\u00e8s la Boh\u00e8me<\/strong>, Saint Privat, 2023<\/p>

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Awards<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Amadeus Austrian Music Awards<\/strong> in the category ‘Discovery of the Year’ <\/strong>with Saint Privat<\/em><\/strong> in 2005.<\/p>

Amadeus Austrian Music Award<\/strong> in the category ‘Song of the Year’<\/strong> for M\u00e4dchen <\/strong><\/em>in 2008.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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