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Stacey Kent returns to the Cartagena Jazz Festival in a concert in Spain on Thursday 11 November.
Kent was born in New Jersey but grew up listening to the poems of Baudelaire.
With a lyrical and sensuous style, gives voice and the right accent in French jazz album that brings to Cartagena Raconte-moi ...
his first album entirely in French, with versions of Benjamin Biolay, Paul Misraki, André Manoukian ...
On Thursday, also will take the stage the young English Portico Quartet, with its fresh and unclassifiable synthesis and reinvention of music, very characteristic for the use of Hang, a percussion instrument.
Tickets for this double program cost 15 euros.
STACEY KENT
Born in New Jersey but grew up listening to the poems of Baudelaire.
With a lyrical and sensuous style, Stacey Kent gives a voice and the accent just French jazz on her new album Raconte-moi ...
his first album entirely in French, with versions of Benjamin Biolay, Paul Misraki, André Manoukian ...
Kent is very excited about her new album recently after appearing last year was awarded the Order of Arts and Letters in France: "It was a completely unexpected honor for me to receive this award from the Minister of Culture, Christine Albanel. I am a lover of French culture and I feel very comfortable singing in that language in my last job, which attempt to approach the world of French pop, always so close to vocal jazz. I love Henri Salvador and so I re-interpret that wonderful twilight love song to the explosion of colors in nature that is 'Jardin d'hiver', who wrote two of my current favorite authors, Benjamin Biolay and Keren Ann, "he said in a recent interview with El Mundo.
Recounted-moi ...
is a song of seduction and an invitation to eternal pleasures.
Stacey Kent has given many of the highlights of the new jazz in recent decades.
He has published seven albums have been best sellers, including The Boy Next Door 2003, which went gold and joined a number of awards including the British Jazz Award 2001, the BBC Jazz Award 2002, Best Vocalist Backstage Bistro Award, 2004 and Best Album of the Year à with Jim Tomlinson, producer, musician and husband, The Lyric in 2006.
A string of awards that put Stacey Kent at the top of the current jazz scene.
à ‰ ste be his only concert in Spain.
PORTICO QUARTET
At first glance, Portico Quartet are a group of twentysomethings who play instrumental music.
A formation created four years ago from two groups of classmates, who share a house in East London, with the intention of recording and performing in clubs and festivals.
However, what distinguishes the Portico of the dozens of candidates from the popular district of Hackney in London, is the way they sound fresh and unclassifiable-a synthesis and reinvention of music-it is both pleasantly familiar and startlingly new .
As if it were something recognizable but at the same time, from the near future.
Showing great resources-acoustic percussion, bass and brass-have conspired with a group instantly recognizable signature.
By using the Hang, a percussion instrument that bought on impulse at a music festival, have achieved a sound that is immediately appealing, but without individual commitment, and this, combined with lively eloquence of his performance, it which has led them to go a long way in a short space of time.
From its humble beginnings in 2005, playing in the streets of the South Bank, his reputation grew rapidly.
Once they began to be employed more regularly took to record an album of five songs to sell at concerts.
In 2007 he signed a recording contract to make a full length CD, Knee Deep In The North Sea (Ba-bel/Vortex).
This was a turning point: the album attracted the attention of DJs, bloggers and critics of all kinds, and was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize 2008.
A year later the band released new album: Island (Real World Records, 2009), a melodically rich and thoughtful collection.
With this album is closer to the Cartagena Jazz Festival.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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