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The Way I Am

Aren’t we all looking for these few people in life who just really get us and who accept us for all that we are? 'The Way I Am' by Ingrid Michaelson is about the feeling of having found one such person. It’s an attempt to tell them how great they are and how lucky we feel to have them in our life.
We are happy to present our very own version of 'The Way I Am' to you, recorded remotely by all of us individually and then mixed and mastered by Philipp Jeschke.
We hope that our cover of Ingrid Michaelson’s song will bring you some warm, summery vibes and of course, you’re more than welcome to share it with all the people in your life who truly take you the way you are.

Lyrics & Composition: Ingrid Michaelson
Arrangement: Ariane Baur
Mixing & Mastering: Philipp Jeschke
Video production: Jana Hecht

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Amélie Jost

No matter which arrangement gets to Amelies hands and voice: She easily reaches the highest notes with an expressive and effortless sound. When singing a solo part you can hear her love for musicals and gospel as she‘s adding the finishing touch of emotions as well as she‘s able to belt her heart out. But Amelie does not only express her feelings through music. She has a huge sense for justice: Always wearing her heart on her sleeve, we can count on Amelie’s honest opinion and open ear anytime.

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Lorena Dürnholz

Lorena enriches mata with her beautiful pure voice, for which no technical challenge is too difficult. She also brings years of choir experience, which makes her blend perfectly into the overall mata sound and speeds up the rehearsal process through precise detail work. Apart from Lorena's musical strengths, she is also a great contributor to the group with new ideas, intelligent questions, and her gift for making difficult topics discussable in a casual way. In short, Lorena brings a lot of fresh air and positive energy that we don't want to miss.

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Tabea Koloska

Tabea manages to combine crazy creativity with focused and structured work. Also her overview and spontaneity make working with her an absolute delight. She is mainly known, loved and responsible for melancholic songs with beautiful harmonies and melodies. Overall, she is the "bandmom" every acapella group needs.

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Ariane Baur

Ariane is a powerful, hard-working woman who gives mata the needed maturity in music such as on stage. On the other hand she offers a lot of room for jokes and craziness, always showing her empathy and patience towards all of us. Her arrangements add a certain groovy pop-ish spice to the repertoire. Among us funny girls, she is easily leading us with a lot of common sense, adding to our music her incredibly warm voice.

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Marie Weis

Dropping one joke after the other, be it in German, French, English or Luxembourgish, you have to laugh along with Marie anyway. Through the unusual rhythms and her lyrics, which go from fantasy languages over childhood memories to social criticism, her compositions bring drive to the groove too. Furthermore, without Marie our overall sound would probably not be as precise, because she always finds more detail to improve in a piece. So in between her gags she doesn’t fear to kick our asses every now and then, especially when we relax too much on the music we already master.