Daymé Arocena

Cuban vocalist, arranger, composer, and choir director Daymé Arocena makes a soulful mixture of jazz and neo-soul, rooted in the Western African and Cuban Santeria custom. Delivered in Havana in 1992, Arocena grew up within a Santeria home and paid attention to an extensive range of noises, from traditional Cuban and African music to jazz, spirit, and pop. Developing up, she researched traditional music and performed a number of musical instruments before buying performing as her primary focus. By age group eight, Arocena had been singing and dance professionally, with age group 14 she became business lead singer using the big music group Los Primos. While still in music college, she shaped the all-girl jazz ensemble Alami. After graduating being a choir movie director, Arocena and Alami had been invited to execute at Havana’s Jazz Plaza Celebration by Cuba’s Minister of Lifestyle. It was throughout that overall performance that Arocena captured the hearing of going to Canadian jazz clarinetist Jane Bunnett. Bunnett after that brought the youthful vocalist to Toronto to execute and presented her on her behalf 2014 Cuban jazz recording, Jane Bunnett & Maqueque. Also in 2014, Arocena collaborated with English DJ Gilles Peterson on his Havana Cultura Classes project. She after that authorized to Peterson’s London-based Brownswood Recordings label. In 2015, Arocena released her debut recording, Nueva Period. The EP One Requires adopted in 2016.