Her artistic journey began with Hungarian folk music, but over time she found her true voice in the diverse and emotionally rich musical universe of the Balkans and the Mediterranean. For more than a decade, she has been actively creating, performing, and managing musical projects that bring these traditions to life in an authentic, contemporary and engaging way. However, throughout her artistic career, she repeatedly returns to Hungarian folk music, which originally opened the way for her toward the music of other cultures.

In her band Babra, she plays tamburitza double bass while she sings traditional songs from across the Balkans, as well as from South Slavic communities that have lived in Hungary for centuries. With her BudaPesme vocal–accordion duo, she revives mainly old Macedonian and Bosnian traditional songs, as well as ex-Yugoslav coffeehouse music—all presented in an interactive way. Her quartet VreMea Válkània blends Balkan music and Greek rebetiko, featuring dual female vocals and the rich interplay of cimbalom and accordion. She recently founded her a cappella project, Lemonokipos, where she arranges nature-inspired Greek traditional songs for four female voices, with a subtle touch of Hungarian folk elements, emphasizing vocal purity and authenticity. Another of her bands, Espéria is devoted exclusively to Greek rebetiko, authentically performing songs from all periods of the genre with guitar, bouzouki, accordion and vocals.

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