Tag Archives: Western European Traditions

Introspective, deep, socially aware, and frequently (personal-)ironic at exactly the same time, Italian vocalist/songwriter Cristina Don? set up herself as an musician with a solid character — and, in lots of ways, a genuine one, too, with regards to both music and lyrics. She’s a distinctive talent who’s had the …

The Latin American dance craze from the 1940s spread to Japan through the playing of Tokyo Cuban Boys. Greater than a half a hundred years later on, the 19-piece is constantly on the inspire dancing using their mixture of mambos, boleros, and cha cha chas.

An important number of the next generation of Brazilians who took the violão like a solo instrument, Quincas Laranjeiras was the teacher of eminent music artists who carry the torch even more: the blind Levino da Conceição, José Rabelo, and João Pernambuco. A eulogy released in O Violão journal (1929) …

Cuban jazz vocalist Mayra Caridad Valdés dedicated the majority of her musical career to live show, singing within Irakere and in addition with her well-known sibling Chucho, before debuting being a recording artist in 2002. Delivered on Apr 20, 1956, to Bebo Valdés, a renowned Cuban jazz pianist, Mayra researched …

Following the fall from the Soviet Union, Giya Kancheli (blessed 1935) surfaced into international fame among the country’s composers who resisted the state pressure to comply with an approved realist style. Georgia provides its own exclusive spiritual, folk, and traditional music customs. Georgian composers, and the ones of various other …

Philippe Katerine, generally known simply while Katerine, is a People from france alternative vocalist/songwriter who emerged to underground acclaim in the mid-’90s and steadily garnered business achievement in subsequent years while his renown grew. Given birth to Philippe Blanchard on Dec 8, 1968, in Chantonnay, Vendée, he produced his full-length …

The need for Anacleto de Medeiros, organic son of the freed slave, resides in him getting among the first composers of choro, when it wasn’t yet a genre, but a method of playing, therefore adding to its form. He had written 90 parts, besides those that were lost. You can …

Given birth to in 1962 in Genoa, Italian vocalist/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Cristiano De André, the child of notable music artists Fabrizio De André and Enrica Rignon, created the group We Tempi Duri in the first ’80s before getting into a successful single career. The music group released just one single recording, 1982’s …

Assembling single compositions built by different inspirations, Rodrigo Leão built his own method of creating music, somewhere among progressive and experimental electronic soundings. Perhaps one of the most essential composers and performers from the past due ’90s in Portugal, Rodrigo Leão began his profession by dealing with a few of …

Pedro Sorongo, or Pedro da Lua, was a ritmista (sort of percussionist who helps to keep the defeat) who was simply very popular one of the better choro organizations in the ’50s. He participated in lots of albums documented by Jacob perform Bandolim, and in addition documented with Baden Powell, …