Jazz Articles about Magos Herrera

About Magos Herrera

Album Review

The sultry contralto cracks through the silence and a relatively new voce is discovered streaking across the skies of North America. This is the dark, sensuous voice of Magos Herrera, an outstanding young vocalist from Mexico. The constraints of singing in that register appear not to hold Herrera back for she often lets her voice soar free of the registers in which she is meant to sing. Her great leaps of gymnastic vocal skill are manifest throughout the woefully short ...

Album Review

Magos Herrera: México Azul

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 24, 2011

Non c'è dubbio: il biglietto da visita è la sua immagine. In ogni disco finora pubblicato (si contano dal 1997 sette album) Magos Herrera è sempre in primo piano. Ma è uno specchietto per le allodole che spiazza o intrappola la superficialità. Qui non si tratta solo del fascino né di una bellezza fine a se stessa. Magos, molto popolare nel centro America, ha una voce evocativa, tinta con i colori solari dei paesi latini (ma senza per questo essere ...

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Take Five with Magos Herrera

by AAJ Staff
October 23, 2009

Sobre Magos Herrera: Compositora e intérprete mexicana radicada en Nueva York, mi carrera empezó en 1988, cuando decidí dedicarme profesionalmente a la música y graduarme en el Musicians Institute de Los Ángeles. He grabado 6 discos, además de 2 compilaciones internacionales en Brasil y Japón. Formé parte de Mexican Divas, y he sido nominada en México como mejor espectáculo de jazz. Durante los últimos cuatro años he presentado dos programas musicales en la televisión mexicana, recibiendo invitados como ...

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Album Review

Magos Herrera: Distancia

Read "Distancia" reviewed by Holly Holmes

by Holly Holmes
September 18, 2009

Mexican jazz vocalist Magos Herrera may not be a household name among jazz audiences, but she certainly deserves to be. With the release of her seventh album as a leader, Distancia (Sunnyside, 2009) shows off not only her rich contralto voice but also an artist with expressive depth. Distancia is an extraordinarily diverse album. Herrera sings in three languages--English, Portuguese and Spanish--and, in doing so, treads broken ground of Brazilian composers Antonio Carlos Jobim and Milton Nascimento, ...