KOVACS — a Budapest keepsake, one of one

Cover photo: Andreas Lawen, Fotandi · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · cropped

If you have scanned the QR code inside the album: this is the page it points to. The album you are holding is the only copy that exists.

A 24-page, landscape A4 photo album made in Budapest as a thank-you gift for the Dutch singer Kovacs (Sharon Kovacs), for her concert at Barba Negra, Budapest, on 27 November 2026.

It was printed once. It is not for sale, and no other copy will be printed.

The album tells the story in short chapters and photographs:

• Baarlo, 1990 — where it started, and her singing studies at the Rock City Institute in Eindhoven (graduated 2013)
• 2014 — the breakthrough — NPO 3FM Serious Talent, the first EP My Love
• The records — Shades of Black (2015), Cheap Smell (2018), Child of Sin (2023)
• Border Breaker, 2016 — the European Border Breakers Award
• A Hungarian name — why a Dutch singer carries the name Kovács, in her own words from a 2016 Hungarian interview
• Budapest — Sziget 2016, the A38 ship, VéNégy Festival 2023, and the night of 27 November 2026
• For your memories — an empty page, left for the concert night

All photographs come from Wikimedia Commons, used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licences, with every photographer credited by name in the album: Marc Wielaert, Eric de Redelijkheid and Andreas Lawen. Thank you to them for sharing their work with the world.

Because the music has been played many times in Budapest — and a name that every Hungarian can read deserves a small book from the city.

This album and this page make no claim on behalf of the artist or her management. Facts as checked on 10 September 2026. Made by Data Analytic Investments Kft., Budapest.