Tag Archives: Latin Folk

Dynamic in Cuban music since 1965, singer/guitarist/tres participant/composer Pedro Luis Ferrer combines the influences of both traditional and Cuban well-known music in his guaracha-style tunes, which often address the everyday lives and struggles of the normal people. Ferrer was created in the tiny Cuban city of Yanguaji and relocated to …

A indigenous of Colombia, Latin jazz guitarist Juan Carlos Quintero began his saving profession with two albums on Nova, a self-titled debut released in 1990 (remastered and reissued in 2000 by Local Language Music beneath the fresh name Medellin) and 1992’s With the Winds, recorded with composer/arranger Todd Cochran, pianist …

The very first nationally famous ranchera singer, Jorge Negrete appeared in three dozen films and recorded almost 200 songs through the 1930s, ’40s, and early ’50s, before dying in the height of his career. Given birth to into a armed service family (his dad gained the rank of lieutenant colonel …

A rising star around the Latin jazz circuit, Sepulveda’s produces feature prominent Latin players like Arturo Ortiz, Ruben Rodriquez, and Adam Cruz, in addition to young lion tenor saxophonist Ralph Moore, and it is spiced by excellent originals.

Daughter of the music teacher along with a vocalist/guitarist, Violeta Parra was influenced by her parents since being truly a child. At age nine, the youthful girl started performing and playing acoustic guitar, quickly composing traditional Chilean music. After engaged and getting married to Luis Cereceda in 1952, the vocalist/songwriter …

Venezuelan-born, New York-based flutist Marco Granados incorporates his love of traditional, folk, and jazz music into his different career being a teacher, recording artist, and single and ensemble performer. Granados continues to be particularly important in increasing the profile of Latin and Latin American music, assisting discovered the Amerigo Outfit …

Colombian accordionist Fredy Sierra started performing at age 15. He produced his worldwide debut in 1994 using the launch of Vallenato, documented alongside Eligio Vega. For the recording, he performs the essential rhythms of paseo, boy, puya, and merengue from the vallenato design. In 1995, Fredy Sierra was crowned as …

Piano, synthesizer. A simple mixture of Afro-Latin, traditional, MODERN and fusion components comprised Eduardo Del Barrio’s 1991 A&M record, and in addition his design as a new player and composer.

The reality of Victor Jara’s tragic death are well noted. Arrested within the aftermath of the military services coup d’état, Jara was among the many politics prisoners resulted in the Country wide Soccer Stadium where many had been tortured, beaten, and performed. Although his hands had been broken or, as …

Jesus “Un Flaco” Elizalde was created January 14, 1977, in the city of Navojoa, Sonora. Sons of local Mexican music star Lalo “Un Gallo” Elizalde, Jesus and his sibling Valentin not merely displayed a skill for and curiosity about music, but had been raised steeped in its wealthy traditions. Jesus …