At 23 years, is a skilful, charismatic presence in Cuban music. Her powerful voice and her ability to absorb music of any kind, particularly jazz and Cuban neo-soul, with her devotion for Afro-Cuban culture, made her into one of the most exciting artists of Cuban contemporary scene. In 2010, she became a member of Sumsum Corda, a fusion jazz quintet with which she participated in tours for Norway and Nicaragua. After the experience being a member of Joaquin Betancourt’s big band, she decided to create Alami, an all-girl band. In 2013, after participate with Alami in the Jazz Plaza Festival, she was invited by Canadian saxophonist Jane Bunnet to join to her project Maqueque (with which she continues collaborating today), with which she recorded the album of the same name that obtain the 2015 Juno Award, in Best Album Jazz category. As part of Havana Cultura project, she has participated in “Havana Cultura Mix – The Soundclas...
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At 23 years, is a skilful, charismatic presence in Cuban music. Her powerful voice and her ability to absorb music of any kind, particularly jazz and Cuban neo-soul, with her devotion for Afro-Cuban culture, made her into one of the most exciting artists of Cuban contemporary scene. In 2010, she became a member of Sumsum Corda, a fusion jazz quintet with which she participated in tours for Norway and Nicaragua. After the experience being a member of Joaquin Betancourt’s big band, she decided to create Alami, an all-girl band. In 2013, after participate with Alami in the Jazz Plaza Festival, she was invited by Canadian saxophonist Jane Bunnet to join to her project Maqueque (with which she continues collaborating today), with which she recorded the album of the same name that obtain the 2015 Juno Award, in Best Album Jazz category. As part of Havana Cultura project, she has participated in “Havana Cultura Mix – The Soundclash!”, an album produced by the DJ Gilles Peterson, who call DJs around the world to work with Cuban musicians. After her participation in Havana Cultura Mix, Gilles Peterson decide join her to the catalogue of her record label Brownswood Recordings, where she has already recorded “The Havana Cultura Sessions” EP and her first album as soloist, “Nueva Era”, which has attracted the attention of the public and critics in Europe and USA. She has collaborations with various and renowned artists as the jazz players Roberto Fonseca and Yasek Manzano, the rapper Kumar, and the Russian Dj Raumskaya, with which recorded the hit “U Knew Before”. She has turned up in many prominent stages like Jazz Na Fabrica Festival, in Brazil; Les Voix Humaines Festival, in Cuba; the Duc des Lombards and Worldwide Festival, in France. St. Pancras Old Church, in London, Peter Barakan Live’s Magic Show, in Japon and Het Depot club, in Belgium. At the end of 2015 her debut album “Nueva Era” was selected by National Public Radio of USA (NPR) as one of the best 50 albums of the year. The medium appointing it like a record full of material that redefines the stereotype of what it is Cuban music, and they say on her that she is one of the most innovate musician of the country.
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