There are 2 bands called Fulka: 1. An Israeli Folk Black Metal Band. Started as a project in 2002 and developed into a full band [not full yet, but soon!], who's working on new songs every week. 2. name of folktronica singer-songwriter, Ola Kobak. Ola Kobak was raised in a polish home in Pretoria, South Africa. The name Fulka derives from a germanic noun meaning "people" or "army". Ola was born 19 September 1985. She was raised just outside Pretoria, in Centurion, where her father worked as a full time session musician playing for the likes of Natalie Cole, Luck Dube, Mango Groove and many musical theatre productions such as Chicago and Hairspray. Her father and mother arrived in South Africa with 50 dollars and no ability to speak English or Afrikaans. Ola grew up with a background in music starting at the age of four when her grandfather in Poland taught her traditional polish, folk songs and rhymes. Her love for music grew and when she was in primary school, she was playing piano and was in the school orchestra as well as the choir. When she was 13, she sang for Nelson Mandela at the OR Tambo airport (then, the Jan Smuts airport), in a hanger and infront of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund airplane. Ola graduated with a honours degree in Information Design at the University of Pretoria, after a decline in permission from her father, to study music. After freelancing as a graphic designer and writing songs for two years, Ola is freelancing in design aprt time and focusing on her music. Ola Kobak married Jacob Israel on the 9th May 2009 and currently resides with her husband in Arcadia <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Fulka">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.