Buika

January 1st, 2012 by Buika

CAMI Music ( Columbia Artists Music LLC) : presents LATIN ICONS OF THE WORLD at CARNEGIE

CHUCHO VALDÉS

and the Afro-Cuban Messengers
Special Guest Vocalist BUIKA

Saturday January 21, 2012

CHUCHO VALDÉS Makes Historic Return to CARNEGIE HALL

First Concert on Carnegie Main Stage Since 1978 Irakere Debut

Flamenco jazz singer BUIKA joins Valdés for first time in New York

Music from Grammy-Winning “CHUCHO’S STEPS” and  “EL ULTIMO TRAGO”  plus DEBUT of New Music from Upcoming Arab/Flamenco Project “

Mr. Valdés’s embrace of Cuban music and American jazz is bold, without stylistic prejudice, and always marked by invention. He’s crafted his own towering legacy atop his inheritance.”
WALL STREET JOURNAL

One of the most celebrated musicians to come out of Cuba in the last 50 years, Chucho Valdés (Quivicán, Cuba, 1941) has won 5 Grammys and 3 Latin Grammys for his work as pianist, composer, bandleader and arranger. Learning piano from his father, the legendary Bebo Valdés, and later at the Havana Conservatory, Chucho achieved his own international fame with the formation of the influential Latin jazz ensemble Irakere, featuring luminaries such as saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera and trumpeter Arturo Sandoval. That group made its New York debut at Carnegie Hall in 1978, a concert that was personally, as well as musically, historic: it was backstage at that show where Chucho was reunited with his father after an 18-year separation. This is Chucho’s first show at Carnegie since that momentous date.

It will also be the first time in North America that Valdés will perform with the extraordinary Spanish jazz singer Buika. Her 2010 collaboration with Valdés, El Ultimo Trago (The Last Drink), won a Latin Grammy for “Best Traditional Tropical Album.” Buika has just made her screen debut, singing two songs in the Pedro Almodóvar film The Skin I Live In.”

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