Michel Camilo

A thrilling and high-powered virtuoso pianist, Michel Camilo is a Grammy Award-winning performer known for his cross-pollinated mixture of Latin, jazz, and classical designs. Blessed in 1954 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Camilo originated from an extremely musical family members (all nine of his uncles had been music artists). Originally playing accordion, he turned to piano around age group nine when he also started his formal music research. By enough time he was 16 years of age, Camilo was using the Country wide Symphony Orchestra from the Dominican Republic. After shifting to NY in 1979, his music “YOU WILL WANT TO?” became popular for the Manhattan Transfer and captured on as a typical, and “Caribe” moved into the repertoire of Dizzy Gillespie. Camilo, who caused Paquito d’Rivera’s music group for 3 years (slicing an recording with “YOU WILL WANT TO?” mainly because the name cut), documented for Electrical Bird (classes reissued by Proof) and Columbia, and worked well as a innovator you start with his self-titled recording in 1988; the recording remained near the top of the jazz graphs for ten weeks directly. Camilo had the interest of both critics and Latin jazz enthusiasts as well. Another standout in his catalog was 1993’s Rendezvous, with bassist Anthony Jackson and drummer Dave Weckl. Camilo also added film composer to his réamounté with two ratings: Amo Tu Cama Rica in 1991 and Two Very much in 1996. In 1997, he was percussionist Giovanni Hidalgo’s collaborator for the stellar Hands of Tempo. In 2000, he was among the presented artists in movie director Fernando Trueba’s documentary Calle 54. That same yr he and flamenco guitarist Tomatito earned Greatest Latin Jazz Recording in the first Latin Grammy Awards for his or her collaborative recording Spain. (They released a sequel entitled Spain Once again in 2006.) In 2002, the pianist received acclaim for Triangulo, with Jackson on bass and Horatio “Un Negro” Hernandez in the drummer’s seat. Also in 2002, Camilo collaborated with Leonard Slatkin as well as the BBC Symphony Orchestra on his Piano Concerto; Collection for Piano, Strings & Harp; Caribe. In 2006, he and Tomatito met up once again for Spain Once again, and a yr later on he released his last day for the Telarc label, the lauded Nature of as soon as. In ’09 2009, Caribe: Michel Camilo Big Music group, an audio-video concert record, premiered in Japan. In 2011, Camilo released the trio recording Mano a Mano with Hidalgo and bassist Charles Flores for Emarcy before commencing another globe tour that included many celebrations. He returned towards the documenting studio with WHAT’S GOING ON?, a single piano offering, for the revived OKeh label in 2013. 3 years later on, Camilo re-teamed with Tomatito to concern their third cooperation, Spain Forever, covering music by a multitude of composers including Ennio Morricone, Astor Piazzolla, Egberto Gismonti, Charlie Haden, Luis Bonfa, Django Reinhardt, Chick Corea, and Erik Satie.