Results for "Estrella Acosta"

News: Performance / Tour

Fahir Atakoğlu: The 'Music Of Hope Tour' At Merkin Hall - March 12 - All-Star Band And String Section!

January 14, 2020

Fahir Atakoğlu: The Music of Hope Tour 2020. The Music of Hope Tour is dedicated to all of the refugees in the world. Personnel Fahir Atakoğlu: piano Horacio “El Negro" Hernandez: drums Armando Gola; bass Bob Franceschini: saxophone Letizia Gambi: vocalist Estrella Acosta: vocalist ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Seven Women (Plus Three) 2018 – Part VIII

by C. Michael Bailey
August 29, 2018

Cheryl Bentyne (and Mark Winkler) Eastern Standard Time Café Pacific Records

Musician

Estrella Acosta

Born: January 20

Cuban vocalist Estrella Acosta is an acclaimed singer-songwriter and Latin Grammy nominee. Though she never stopped singing the folk songs of her motherland, she is equally at home embracing various Brazilian and jazz idioms. With her warm earthy voice she creates an energetic yet intimate and personal style, rooted in the sounds of her native Cuba.

She has left a travel footprint that truly makes her a citizen of the world. After completing a degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, she set out to pursue her musical dreams in a journey that took her to Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, New York City and, finally, Amsterdam, where she now resides.

News: Recording

Vocalist Estrella Acosta Releases "Mujeres De Luna" Songs By Cuban Women Composers

May 11, 2018

A tribute to the great female composers of Cuba... now available online worldwide Cuban vocalist Estrella Acosta went on a search in the rich and beautiful musical history of her motherland. There she discovered innovative and rarely heard music composed by women during the last century. In this collection of beautiful songs, she highlights the important ...

Album

Mujeres de Luna - Songs by Cuban Women Composers

By Estrella Acosta

Label: eStar
Released: 2017
Track listing: Esta Vez Toco Perder; Dime Que Me Amas; Dias Que Quiero; Ofrenda; Tus Manos Blancas; Eclipse; Canción Del Mar No.1; La Suerte; Canción Facil; Canción Dificil; Razones.

Video

Live at the BIMhuis, Amsterdam

Featuring the music of Estrella Acosta
Duration: 3:41
August 15, 2013

Esquina 25 brings together top international musicians from Cuba, Venezuela, Germany, the USA and the Netherlands. They create an original view of Cuban music in a wide spectrum of styles - son, bolero, rumba, guajira, trova, Afro-Cuban jazz and Lucumí chants, performed with plenty of room for creativity and improvisation, and with respect for the tradition. The music of Esquina 25 pays tribute to the cultural variety that characterizes a Havana street corner where many Cuban writers, musicians and other culture bearers have met and inspired each other over the years - likewise, the band is a meeting point between musicians from different cultures, between Latin and jazz, between tradition and inventivity.

News: Recording

New Release By Estrella Acosta: Esquina 25

August 6, 2013

Cuban vocalist Estrella Acosta just released her third album on the eStar label, named Esquina 25. Joined by internationally acclaimed musicians like Leonardo Amuedo, Carlos Irarragorri and Gerardo Rosales she creates an energetic, yet intimate and personal style, rooted in the sounds of her native Cuba. “I enjoyed every note of the cd... very fresh arrangements and ...

News: Performance / Tour

Estrella & Esquina 25 @ Jazzpodium De Tor In Enschede, The Netherlands

October 24, 2012

Estrella & Esquina 25: Marc Bischoff - piano, Efraim Trujillo - sax/ flute, Jose Luis Lopretti- bass, Enrique Firpi - drums, Estrella Acosta - vocals Cuban vocalist Estrella Acosta & Esquina 25 5tet present a musical program that mixes Caribbean and South American rhythms with adventurous improvisations. Surprising arrangements from the Afro-Cuban classics are interwoven with ...