Editing Márta Sebestyén (section)

==Career==
Sebestyén is a founding member of Hungarian folk group [[Muzsikás]]. She is known for adaptations of [[Somogy County|Somogy]] and [[Erdély]] folk songs, some of which appear in [[Deep Forest]]'s ''[[Boheme (album)|Boheme]]'' album, which received the [[Grammy Award]] for [[Best World Music Album]] in 1995. She has also adapted [[Hindi]], [[Yiddish]], [[Serbian language|Serbian]], [[Bulgarian music|Bulgarian]], [[Slovakia|Slovak]] folk songs into traditional Hungarian style. She sang in and contributed material to the album ''[[Kaddish (Towering Inferno album)|Kaddish]]'' by [[Towering Inferno (band)|Towering Inferno]] ([[Richard Wolfson (musician)|Richard Wolfson]] and Andy Saunders, 1993). She also sang "Rivers" on the multiple artist album ''[[Big Blue Ball]]'' released in 2008.

Sebestyén's song "Szerelem, szerelem", performed with Muzsikás, featured in the movie ''[[The English Patient (film)|The English Patient]]'' (1996). Three more songs she recorded with Muzsikás appeared in the Japanese [[anime]] film ''[[Only Yesterday (1991 film)|Only Yesterday]]'' (1991) by [[Studio Ghibli]]: "Teremtés" ("Creation"), "Hajnali nóta" ("Morning Song"), and "Fuvom az énekem" ("I Sing My Song").<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/soundtracks/opp/|title=CD // Only Yesterday t|website=Nausicaa.net}}</ref> Costa-Gavras' 1989 film ''[[Music Box (film)|Music Box]]'' featured the opening half of Sebestyén's song "Mária altatója".

On 1 June 2010, Sebestyén was awarded the [[UNESCO Artist for Peace]] title.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://culture.hu/main.php?folderID=1085&articleID=301810&ctag=articlelist&iid=1 |title=Hungarian folk singer Sebestyen UNESCO Artist for Peace |date=2 June 2010 |work=culture.hu |publisher=Hungarian Ministry of National Resources |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721104422/http://culture.hu/main.php?folderID=1085&articleID=301810&ctag=articlelist&iid=1 |archivedate=21 July 2011}}</ref>