Results for "Ethnic Jazz"

Eddie Jak Neumann

Born: January 1, 1974

Eddie Neumann was born in communist Romania at a time when jazz was almost banned. He first came into contact with jazz when Dave Brubeck came to Moscow in 1987. 11 years later, he recorded the first live jazz CD ever to be published in Romania (Changes, 1998) along with the Jazz Unit band. The resulting sexted received the Jazz Album of the Year award from the Romanian Union of Composers in 2000 for their album From Now On. Eddie is the mastermind behind the revered Romanian nu-jazz band Blazzaj, for which he wrote music and lyrics. After a short stint in West London, where he played jazz, klezmer and world music with several bands and produced his own electronic music called Electric Vulcans, he relocated to Romania, where he continues touring and recording with various ensembles crossing the jazz and ethnic music realms.

Carina La Dulce

Carina La Dulce is a world music singer and composer. She is a dreamer and invite you to dive into your dreams together with her music. She create it in her own style named Dream Ethno Soul and consisting of many beautiful colors of Flamenco music, Latin, African, Indian, Jazz, Rock - generally World Music. She shares beautiful ancient stories, witnessed in the infinite space of our soul and narrated by the universal language of our heart. The singer wins the hearts of the audience with her authentic voice, powerful energy and genuine sincerity. Carina was born in Moscow in the family of big jazz and blues fans and started singing with the support of her father who sings and plays the guitar. At the age of 15 she entered the famous Russian Academy of Theatral Art (GITIS) and started recording a rock album, she performed in projects of different genres till the moment she discovered the art of flamenco and decided to devote herself to it due to her great passion to the art of genius singer Camaron de Isla, to his unique inner freedom in music. When she moved in Granada and after that in Triana, the district of Sevilla, - the craddle of cante hondo - she started adopting this complicated art from traditional singers and old men who generously opened their secrets for her. She has performed in the big musical shows Flamenco: Inside and Outside, Picasso (Russia) and Gypsy Soul (USA)

Tai Adelaja

Born: August 14, 1961

Tai "TMon" Adelaja is a percussionist, music technologist and sound designer living in the coastal city of Lagos in Nigeria. A trained journalist, Tai also moonlights as an arts critic and entertainment writer. A global music afficionado, he likes to write about music, musical instruments and music technology.

Tai is a trained master of the djundjun (an African bass drum), a competent accompanist on djembe, and a passionate scholar and champion of themes and concepts in global percussionism. Tai studied African drum and dance concepts with the late great Babatunde Olatunji in 1992 and completed a 3-year cultural residency program with master drummer Aidoo Mamadi Holmes' and Wo’se African Dance Theater in Washington DC in 2000.