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Cartagena Jazz Festival begins on Thursday, November 3 with the American singer Lizz Wright on stage at the Auditorium The Batel.
Georgia singer comes to present his latest album Dreamer and surronder, considered by critics as one of the best jazz albums sung in recent decades.
Cartagena festival will also feature its opening this week with Lambchop acting the same day it launches its album FLOTUS, Friday, 4, and double-garde Rodrigo Amarante and Asaf Avidan program.
Lizz Wright (Georgia, United States, 1980) is today one of the brightest voices in contemporary jazz.
He surprised the audience of Chicago, one of the many commemorative festivals Billie Holiday, when she was a teenager.
As the daughter of a preacher, his first musical school was the church of his father.
Years later, the fichaba the legendary Verve seal.
The singer surprised with his participation in the 2002 album by pianist Joe Sample, and a year later published Salt, his first job that went to number two of the jazz charts.
His deep voice and a modern approach to jazz, soon became a benchmark.
Two years after its debut and reached the top of the charts with their second album Dreaming wide awake.
Since then it has been gaining popularity with their albums which better.
Among them are Barack Obama this summer that included one of the tracks on the album that comes to introduce Cartagena Dreamer and surronder in the playlist in Spotify made this summer, and has been successful reproductions.
O Prince, a personal friend of Lizz Wright.
The recreation of the last hours of brilliant artist said that one of his last appearances was at the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis, where he played the singer.
It comes back to Cartagena, with its fifth album, produced by the ubiquitous Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Madeleine Peyroux, Melody Gardot, Tracy Chapman ...)
A day later, Friday, November 4, and the New Theatre Circus will be the turn of Lambchop.
Nearby alternative country but with enough personality to create a brand, Lambchop has mutated always around your main songwriter Kurt Wagner, the brains of the band always with his cap on, going to land more soul or post-rock with step the years, but always maintaining the dramatic pulse so characteristic of the group of Nashville.
Active since the early 90s, they have served more than 25 years on stage.
Live they are delicious.
They are undoubtedly a contemporary classics.
American band comes to present Love For Us Still Turns Often or what is the same FLOTUS album that was created to pay homage to the music of artists like Kendrick Lamar recent, Kanye West, or Frank Ocean.
The cartagenero theater hosts a day after the vanguard Rodirgo Amarante and Asaf Avidan.
Rodrigo Amarante embodies itself the vanguard of Brazil.
It is carioca, mate forays Devendra Banhart collaborator Marisa Monte and Natalia Lafourcade, integral with Fabrizio Moretti, drummer of The Strokes, the duo Little Joy, and has been part alongside Moreno Veloso such original projects such as the Imperial Orchestra perfect radiography of contemporary sound of Brazilian music.
Amarante has since the late nineties seeking new paths that lead and enriching tradition of Brazilian popular music with injections of pop and rock.
He has cultivated mestizo rock and folk sunny and deepened in the less traveled tropicalism face with his album Cavalo.
In October 2013, Rolling Stone magazine named him among the hundred most important musicians in the history of Brazilian music.
darling of many specialized critics saw their bucolic and saudade of his songs to the spiritual heir of Caetano exile in London.
Amarante indie sounds and melancholy;
composed in Portuguese, English and French;
and it looks like a monk of the song appealing to empty poetic music.
He has just been nominated for Emmy awards in 2016 for Best Original Song series thanks to Tuyo, tuning the Narcos series.
Cartagena comes with his guitar.
After Amarante be the turn of Asaf Avidan.
Avidan picked up the guitar at age 26 to relieve the pains.
He had just broken a long relationship that left him wounded.
He got out of sadness creating the songs collected on the album "Now That You're Leaving" published independently in some stores of his native Jerusalem.
The work was received with interest and began touring in Israel.
They accompanied his piercing voice deep lyrics and sounds of a guitar and a harmonica.
His popularity grew, took new album and formed the group The Mojos.
Thus he was born Avidan and the Mojos Asaf.
They recorded three albums and toured Europe together, but needed Avidan performed by himself, and started his own way.
At the same time, a fan made an amateur his mix of an old song that did not have the favor of the artist, but became an international hit, peaking at number one in fourteen countries.
Avidan's response to the international popularity was another intimate album, performed again heartbroken.
A combination of jazz, cabaret, blues, pop with a fatalistic look on love.
The prodigious Israeli musician as he wrote in The New York Times, "composed as Leonard Cohen sings like Robert Plant and has the charisma of the biggest cabaret artists".
With such an androgynous vocal reminiscent of Jeff Buckley as Nina Simone, Avidan comes first to the Cartagena Jazz Festival.
Cartagena festival held until November 23 has in its programming in addition to Music Maker Revue Foundation, the bassist Avishai Cohen, with Jacky Terrasson Cecile Salvant Mclorin, Gregory Porter, Christian Scott Atuende Adjuah ​​and Madeleine Peyroux.
Besides having groups cycles for the street and the port city halls.
Source: Agencias
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