Artists
who's who and who's doing what?Joaquin La Habana
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- Joaquin La Habana (voc., dance, spiritual & modern)
- country:Cuba
- region:Caribbean
- style(s):Dance Ritual
- label:AIRAM-records
- type:Band, Solist, Composer/Songwriter
- gender:male, female
- instrumentation:instrumental, vocal
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Joaquin la Habana - Cuba
Singer + dancer + quick change artist + entertainer
* Latin Revues
* Experimental ritual performances in Afro-cuban tradition
* Vocal impressions and highlights from Opera to Broadway Musicals
LATIN & CUBAN THEMES
1. Cubanissimo
Tropical Revue Show (28 dancers) with Cuban dances & Songs
2. Mezcla Tropical
Joaquin La Habana featuring the singer Suzi Onyx /Cuba-USA with 2 female dancers, 1 male dancer - Latino from Cuba to Brasil
3. Cabaret Tropical
Nightclub entertainment show and animation with 2-4 female dancers
4. Serenata Cubana
staged concert with violin, piano, percussion, bass
Lyrical evening of art songs, inviting the audience to a journey through Cuban Theatre and Salon music from late 19th to early 20th century. The artist presents different characters at the same time, changing masks and sexes in his particular amazing way , supporting and highligthening this changes with his huge vocal range from mezzo sopran to high barriton, creating a perfect illusion.
5. Caravan of Gods
Fertility Gods
Ancestors' spirits
Flying bronze black memories
In all these performances he represents the mystic figure of a Shaman in function to link the worlds of the Elements and the duality of sexes, the metamorphosis of the universal forces and the transgender of Deities.
Ritual vocal dance performances as solo artist or with ensemble (half playback or live music 4 to 12 musicians, always including the use of an experimental sound track score, based on afro-cuban traditional Yoruba and Bantu rythms and chants)
Scenary: Ritual installation and painted back-drop.
6. Musical Parodies
presentig vocal impressions from famous operas to Broadway musicals.
In theses shows the artist leads the spectator with his huge range of voice and costumes through the worlds of transformation as from Victor to Victoria, Carmen to the Torero, Phantom to Christine and different personalities known in Cuban Zarzuelas (Operetta) etc..
JOAQUIN LA HABANA is internationally (Europe, Carribean, South America and USA) known as a multifacetic artist and allround talent, always impressing with the power of his voice in combination with his strong corporal expression .
The ability to find the common ground between cultures and the diverse artistic disciplines and his very individual way of presenting, make any of Joaquin La Habana's shows and perfomances to an unique and outstanding experience.
Joaquin La Habana resides in Germany since 1981 and besides his intensive stage work he gave many seminars, lectures and workshops about Cuban culture and its European and African roots as well as he worked as a choreographer in many multi-cultural productions.
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