let me LIED you
Lied ~ Jazz ~ Poetry by Amanda Becker
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The idea for let me LIED you came from singer Amanda Becker.
For her, political awareness belongs on stage just as much as it does in everyday life.
Why do we stay silent on stage when the world is so loud?
Out of this question grew a platform that wants more than just “beautiful music”:
let me LIED you aims to take a stand, spark reflection, and bring social debates into the concert hall – not with a raised finger, but with open questions and musical answers.
Another central motivation was artistic at its core:
The connection between two musical worlds – jazz and classical art song.
Genres that are often kept strictly separate in training and performance.
Amanda Becker has established herself both as a jazz singer and as a classical soprano.
After years of consciously keeping these genres apart, she felt a growing urge to bring them back together. Not just side by side – but in real dialogue: equal, curious, and open.
In 2022, together with outstanding musicians from both jazz and classical backgrounds, the ensemble let me LIED you was born.
Together, they work at the intersection of song, improvisation, tradition, and contemporary resonance.
They experiment, question, and tell stories – musical, political, personal.
let me LIED you is for everyone who wants to listen, feel, reflect.
And for everyone who hasn’t given up on the artsong.
„Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.“
Audre Lorde
