Balázs Farkas-Jenser

Balázs Farkas-Jenser (born 30 May 1990, Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He is most notable for coming fourth in the 6th season of Megasztár in 2012.

Personal life

Balázs was born on 30 May 1990 in Budapest. He attended Németvölgyi Primary School and studied at the Hungarian-British international school from 1997 to 2000. During this time, he studied the piano and clarinet for 4 years. After 4 years of learning English, he returned to Hungarian education. He discontinued his learning of the piano and clarinet on the advice of Imre Benke.

In 2001, he watched the film Blues Brothers 2000, which later affected his musical tastes and style. His influences included Eric Clapton, BB King, and Aretha Franklin. He attended Baár-Madas Reformatory school. In 2006, he received his first guitar, which turned out to be also a turning point in his life. When he also received his first electric guitar, he became acquainted by the works of Stevie Ray Vaughan. His love for blues music continued to grow. He then began playing the guitar professionally with Eduárd Palatin and Elek Lakatos as mentors.

In December 2009, Balázs had an amateur orchestra at his side. He spent the 2007/2008 academic year as a private student in high school. He went on to study at the Cistercian High School in St. Emeric and spent the 2008/2009 Baccalaureate school year carrying out studies at Törökbálint Martin Valentine Elementary School. The three-year training at Kőbányai Music Studio in 2010 was finished.

Professional career

Over an amount of years, Balázs has participated in a number of bands, most of them enthusiastic groups of young and inexperienced musicians, without any serious concepts or infrastructures to behold. In 2010, Balázs joined the band Freezbee. In May 2011, he took the position of drums from Zádor Simonyi. Thereafter, two main people in the band (Ervin Krenyiczky and György Gassama) left. In 2011, Balázs came up with the idea of participating in the 6th season of Megasztár. In autumn of 2012, Freezbee disbanded.

In late 2014, Balázs was one of the names mentioned in a press conference to participate in A Dal 2015, the national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2015. Later, his song was revealed to be called "Liar". On 24 January 2015, he participated in the first heat, succeeding Magyar Bori and preceding Gabi Szűcs. He was eliminated from the first heat, receiving 37 points. Despite other entries gaining the same amount of points, Balázs got more mixed ratings from the judges than other songs and was not voted as the lone SMS and televote qualifier, that honor going to Timi Antal.

After Megasztár, his Orchestra made one song: "Look at me", which was released in September 2012.

Sources and References

• "Velvet.hu". 
• "Hír24.hu".