Zola Mennenöh
Zola Mennenöh

Educated in classical and improvised music, her music oscillates freely between structure and freedom, simplicity and complexity, reduction and detailed richness, earthy directness and fine elegance. Her works and co-collaborations create multi-layered, genre—and discipline-bending cosmoses.
Her practice engages with questions of identity, memory, belonging, and the limits and possibilities of personal expression through the voice and the body. She is deeply concerned about creating spaces for freedom and connectedness, empowerment and truth-telling, equality and coexistence, transformation, alchemy, and feeling.
In 2020, she released her debut album, “Longing for belonging,” on Figureight Records and was highly recognized by an international audience: She was nominated for Deutscher Jazzpreis 2021 in the category Album Vokal National and listed by The Guardian as one of the “BEST NEW ARTISTS IN 2021." Her long-awaited second Solo Album, "A Labour of Love," will be released in November 2025.














