“Internationally acclaimed Hungarian Roma singer’’ Mónika Juhász Miczura, known as Mitsou, says in court papers that Beyoncé recorded her voice in 1995 while Mitsou was singing the traditional folk song “Bajba, Bajba Pelem,’’ which she learned from her grandmother according to PageSix.
“Mitsou’s voice was [then] sampled and digitally manipulated without her permission” for Beyoncé’s Grammy-nominated “Drunk in Love,’’ the suit charges.
Mitsou says friends told her they heard her singing a capella for the first 13 seconds of Beyoncé’s song after it was suddenly released without any promotion last December.
Then Beyonce’s voice joins in and Jay Z raps alongside her.
“All together, Mitsou’s vocals are featured for over 1¹/₂ minutes of the 5¹/₂-minute song,” according to the Manhattan Supreme Court suit.
The sampling “evokes foreign eroticism alongside the sexually intense lyrics performed by Beyoncé and Jay Z,” the suit says.
The video has since been viewed more than 200million times on YouTube. Drunk In Love bagged two nominations at the 2015 Grammy Awards… The video opens with a black-and-white scene of a beach at night, followed by Mitsou’s solo.
The Hungarian is also suing Jay Z, claiming the superstar duo has been “unjustly enriched to the detriment of Mitsou.”
Their “blatant unauthorized use of [her] voice for trade purposes is causing irreparable harm and emotional distress” to Mitsou, the suit says.
She’s seeking unspecified damages.
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