Berlin Scat Queens

These vocalists bring a unique, personal voice to the stage, often blending traditional jazz bebop techniques with contemporary experimental sounds. Why Berlin Loves Scat

She would perform in the U-Bahn tunnels under Alexanderplatz, her voice ricocheting off the tiles like a pinball. But Fatima did not scat nonsense syllables. She scat words that had been stripped of meaning—morphemes shattered into phonemes, consonants divorced from vowels. She took the German word Schadenfreude and turned it into shh-ah-dn-froy-dn-deee-bop . She took the Arabic ghurbah (the ache of exile) and stretched it into guh… huh… rrrr-bah-zee . berlin scat queens