Daria A. Marmaluk-Hakioannou
Singer/Songwriter and World Music performer DARIA (Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou) has spent almost three decades performing in the USA and around the world. Hailed as “an ambassador of song” she has represented the USA in Seville Spain’s World Expo and been featured in the Huffington Post for her musical work with children around the world. The Christian Science Monitor commented: “When Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou makes music, the world listens – literally!“
DARIA has won numerous national awards for her culturally diverse music and is a published author of over 300 multicultural music resources. In terms of original music, DARIA is the author of the “I Have A Dream” song is used widely to celebrate MLK Day. Her Earth Day anthem: “We’ve Got The Whole World In Our Hands” is used in over a dozen different countries around the world. DARIA’s “Beautiful Rainbow World” song is used in Australia as part of a “Respecting Others” curriculum, in South African schools as part of a “Teach Tolerance” initiative and in a recent book – BEAUTIFUL RAINBOW WORLD - that features dazzling images of children from all over the world.
Most recently DARIA has been given a 2019 Parent and Teachers Choice Award and was granted a 2020 Leeway Art And Change Grant. The Leeway Art And Change grant will allow DARIA to complete a new album of historical and original songs about her grandparent’s immigrant experiences in the coalfields of upstate Pennsylvania.
Awarded Grants
2022
Leeway Transformation Award (LTA)
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Overview
DARIA is a performer, songwriter, folksinger, and ethnomusicologist with four decades of contributions to folk music and social justice music. Many of her songs like “I Have A Dream”, “Beautiful Rainbow World”, and “The Earth Day Song” have been used as anthems for social justice, inclusivity, and stewardship for the Earth around the world. Pioneer of the genre of World Music for children, DARIA is also known for the bilingual translations of popular folk songs in languages including Spanish, Quechua, Yiddish, Arabic, Ladino, as well as several others. A fierce advocate for indigenous rights and civil rights for all, DARIA was born in the USA, but grew up in rural South America. She has won over a dozen awards for her socially conscious music and has been nominated for a Grammy.
2020
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Daria will create “Come From A Coal Town”, a research, recovery, singing, songwriting, and recording project that brings to light the details of her Slavic grandparents’ lives in the Anthracite coalfields as immigrant poor. This project seeks to bring them back into existence in the collective consciousness through music and the creation of documentary and teaching materials.
