In April 2018, Ákos, the Kossuth Prize-awarded singer and songwriter turns 50, and at the same time celebrates the 30th anniversary of his career.

The acoustic music refers to a style of music that uses exclusively or to a large extent instruments that emit an acoustic sound, rather than electric or electronic music.

About the artist:
Ákos Kovács Kossuth Prize-awarded Hungarian songwriter, composer, poet (5 books published so far), singer-performer, his official artist name is Ákos. He is one of the leading artists of Hungarian music and has directed his own music videos.

He has played in a TV film, works in theatres (Vígszínház: Brecht - Baal [music written on request], Madách Színház: Oliver; Nemzeti Színház: Revans) and performs at literary readings. For the Disney film Tarzan, he made the Hungarian translation of Phil Collins' songs and sang them. He has recorded an audio play of his own poems, "The Seven Command Words", with Attila Kaszás, and an audio book of short stories by Gyula Krúdy.

It was in his studio that Kossuth Prize-awarded storyteller András Berecz recorded his album Felítő. On the album, which was released on the 125th anniversary of Mihály Babits' birth, he sings poems together with famous Hungarian actors such as Károly Mécs, István Sztankay and Károly Eperjes. On the recording of the audiobook "Benedictine Humour", he is accompanied by Péter Blaskó and Anna Kubik. To mark the 60th anniversary of the 1956 revolution, film director Attila Szász has made a short film with music written by Ákos and sung by the opera singer Erika Miklósa.

The singer, lyricist and composer of the former Bonanza Banzai band, he has been a popular and prolific solo artist since the 1990s. He works in his own studio and has his own record producer. Besides singing, Ákos also plays acoustic and electric guitar, bass, synthesizer, and drums. In addition to his solo concerts, he is a popular performer at many national festivals.

We could go on and on about his work. In 2002, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in recognition of his numerous achievements.

He speaks two foreign languages, English and Italian. He is married to Krisztina Őry. Father of four children: Márton (1998), Anna (2002), Kata (2005) and Júlia (2010).