Home » Member Page

Michael Olivera Garcia

Michael Olivera - Cuban Drummer - Composer & Producer

About Me

Olivera surprises, not because of her virtuosity with patches and drumsticks, but because of her ability to read music, composing a personal jazz that drinks a lot and well from traditions such as the Yoruba songbook. Cuban Jazz ... And the world “Pablo Sanz (Spanish National Newspaper EL MUNDO)

With a long career as a drummer, producer, composer and arranger, Cuban Michael Olivera recorded his first work as a bandleader, “Ashé”, a word that derives from the Yoruba (Afro-Cuban) language, and whose meaning is “Divine Blessing”. After the success of ASHÈ, Olivera presents us with her new work, OASIS.

Closely linked to the jazz scene, he is one of the most important drummers of the current music scene, with more than 50 recorded albums and hundreds of projects with which he has participated in such important festivals as Jazz a Vienne, Marciac, North Sea Jazz , Montroux Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Fest, Blue Note NY, Tokyo Blue Note, Jakarta Jazz Festival, Warsaw Jazz Festival, Madrid Jazz Festival, Barcelona Jazz Festival and many others.

Michael Olivera was born in Santa Clara (Cuba), finished his music studies at the National School of Art (ENA - Havana) and, from an early age, has developed a long and intense professional career.

He has played with renowned artists and producers such as Quincy Jones, Alfredo Rodriguez “Tocororo” (co-arranger), Rick Wakeman, Javier Colina, Sting, Tomatico, Munir Hossn, Yonathan Avishai, Sintesis, among others.

Line Up “ La Reunión “

Michael Olivera - Voice, percussions, drum and bandleader Miryam Latrece - Voice & percussions Reinier Elizarde “ El Negrón “ - DobleBass Marco Mezquida - Piano & percussions

Line UP “ ASHÉ “ Michael Olivera - Voice, percussions, drum and bandleader Munir Hossn - Electric bass, voice & guitar Marco Mezquida - Piano & percussions Miryam LaTrece - Voice & percussions Ariel Bringuez - Tenor & soprano sax

Line UP “ OASIS “

Michael Olivera - Voice, percussions, drum and bandleader Munir Hossn - Electric bass, voice & guitar Yonathan Avishai - Piano & percussions Miryam LaTrece - Voice & percussions Ariel Bringuez - Tenor & soprano sax Miron Rafajlovic - Trumpet Roberto Pacheco - Trombon Adriano DD - Percussion

Line Up Michael Olivera TRIO

David Sancho - Piano & Keyboards Miron Rafajlovic - Trumpet and efects Feat: Miryam Latrece - Voice

After a long career as a drummer and producer and participating in more than 40 albums, Michael Olivera decided in 2016 to make his first job as a bandleader, which is entitled “Ashe” is a word derived from the language YORUBA (Afro- Cuban) and its meaning is “divine blessing” is the essence is that the artist wanted to capture on your disk and what characterizes direct.

“Ashe” is one of the most used terms legacy of this YORUBA language, this is some of the expressions where we can find, (Ashe for you), wishing luck and welfare to anyone, friend or family.

The Show:

Michael Olivera Group - presents “ Ashé “ ( Cuba - Brasil - España )

Videos:

https://youtu.be/kR6idneG8n8

https://youtu.be/0tfEF3Fq2T0

https://youtu.be/kjUyrrN8U3s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpTYY82u3sQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60sEceNJ0do

The artists who are participating:

The artists participating in this work, are excellent musicians and leaders in their own projects, they are:

Munir Hossn- bass, guitar and vocals (www.munirhossn.com)

Marco Mezquida-piano (www.marcomezquida.com)

Ariel Bringuez-saxophones (www.arielbringuez.com)

Miryam Latrece- voice (www.miryamlatrece.com)

Michael Olivera- drum and compositions (www.michael-olivera.com)

“It's a job that includes almost all the soundscapes that have traveled, as a starting point in Santa Clara (Cuba) from 15 years ago, when I started playing professionally”