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That same day, Icue Street Jazz and Las Musiquitas de Sauces will animate street jazz in the Plaza del Icue |
Two of the most important vocal jazz singers of the jazz scene will star in the next day of the Cartagena Jazz Festival, on Saturday, November 16, Stacey Kent and Melanie de Biasio.
Consolidated as one of the most recognized jazz singers today, Stacey Kent is the great jazz diva of our era.
Meanwhile, Melanie de Biasio is a peculiar singer, a true phenomenon in European jazz.
It's a cross between Billie Holliday and Sade, with a touch of The Velvet Underground.
The double program will be at the Nuevo Teatro Circo, at about 9:30 p.m.
That same day, street jazz goes back to the Icue square with the concerts of Icue Street Jazz and Las Musiquitas de Sauces.
Consolidated as one of the most recognized jazz singers of today, Stacey Kent (New Jersey, 1968) manages, with a delicate balance between freshness and conviction, to provide her interpretations with a shocking credibility, as could be seen in each of Your concerts in Cartagena.
Many of Stacey Kent's recordings have been Gold and Platinum Records in numerous countries, his albums have sold more than two million copies and have reached number 1. Among his awards, including Grammy nominations, he has British Jazz Award, the Jazz Japan Award and the BBC Jazz Award as Best Vocalist.
It has been awarded several years by Japan and admired by France that did not hesitate to grant the Chevalier dans L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres award.
The New York Times exalts it in its headlines, the Guardian, the Times and the prestigious DownBeat describe everything it does as a true jewel and gives it five stars.
"Stacey is the great jazz diva of our era."
In his personal and distinguished repertoire, in which he shows his fascination with Brazilian and French music, there are not only beautiful songs by Serge Gainsbourg, Marcos Valle, Antonio Carlos Jobim and his great friend Roberto Menescal, with whom he recorded Tenderly (Sony 2015);
but also compositions of her husband the saxophonist Jim Tomlinson whose sound reminds of Stan Getz.
And, since the Nobel Prize for Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro, contributed a fascinating lyric in the award-winning album The Changing Lights has become a regular contributor.
Stacey sings in perfect French or Portuguese;
Its mezzo-soprano voice crystal clear, elegant and with a precise phrasing, without great juggling, conveys with exquisite emotion.
Mélanie De Biasio (Belgium, 1978) is a peculiar singer, a true phenomenon in European jazz.
It's a cross between Billie Holliday and Sade, with a touch of The Velvet Underground.
It is a jazz renovator of the 21st century.
Each album he has published is extraordinary and different from the previous one.
It was presented for the first time in Spain in 2014 at our festival and its music, as in Cartagena it showed, it gives off delicacy, sophistication, subtlety and even silence.
His albums are great works with dark sound, always wrapped in that characteristic icy sensuality.
De Biasio started as a child in dance, but soon changed to music.
He learned to play the transverse flute and entered a choir.
The adolescence led her to rock and was in a band with strong influence from Nirvana, but she graduated from the Bruxelle Royal Conservatoire, and opted for jazz.
Accompanied by an instrumental formation complicit in its delicacy, what it does is called jazz, but it shares borders with an atmospheric pop and a celestial trip-hop.
Three albums, the last one of them is «Lilies» of 2017, they keep their secret.
Street Jazz
The day will begin with the Icue Jazz Street Band at 1:00 p.m.
Under an atmosphere of passion for jazz, sea breeze and essence of port salt, this band formed by young and talented musicians from Cartagena was born.
With tributaries such as swing, ragtime, dixieland and blues, they will tour the city center in the purest style of New Orleans.
After them, it will be the turn of “Las Musiquitasâ€, an instrumental ensemble formed exclusively by female components of the Sauces Musical Group.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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