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Magos Herrera: Mexico Azul
by Raul d'Gama Rose
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 ...
Continue ReadingMagos Herrera: México Azul
by AAJ Italy Staff
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 ...
Continue ReadingTake Five with Magos Herrera
by AAJ Staff
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 ...
Continue ReadingMagos Herrera: Distancia
by Holly Holmes
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, ...
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