- country:Argentina
- style(s):Latin, Reggae
- label:Sony Argentina
- artist posted by:Booking & Management
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Before mentioning Mimi Maura’s album “Misterio” it is necessary to make a brief account of the arrival of the band to the local scenario.
In these times of musical cloning, an original and distinctive sound is a rare attribute. This unusual gift is the sign which represents Mimi Maura’s music, a delicious reggae, ska and bolero cocktail impregnated with rock’s energy.
This blend of sound is first of all, a sensibility blend, because gathers the two great loves of Mimi: Puerto Rico, her home; and the Jamaican reggae, ska and rock steady, fully shared with her husband, artistic partner and cofounder of Mimi Maura (the band), Sergio Rotman, also founding member of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs and Cienfuegos.
Music entered into Mimi’s life literally since she was born, since her father, Mike Acevedo, was a songwriter/singer. They used to listened to salsa music and boleros. She remembers that while living in USA she listened to all kind of music on American radio stations , from The Carpenters to The Police. But her arrival to music as a performer was during her adolescence when she was involved in several bands of Puerto Rico until she landed in a band entirely formed by girls called Alarma.
Alarma went on a tour. They performed in Mexico and USA where they met Los Fabulosos Cadillacs in a rock festival. Mimi Maura met Sergio Rotman, saxophonist of the Argentine band, and this led to a double affair: musical and personal. The trend to Jamaican music and the boleros and the ballads Mimi knew by heart form her father’s records, formed the spine of their new musical project, a group that would be named like her: Mimi Maura.
In 1999 Mimi and Sergio established in Argentina, where they met the bass player Martin Aloe and drummer Fernando Ricciardi, old music partners of Rotman. A fluctuant cast joined them to create the first band repertoire, which was independently published as a vibrant debut album named simply: Mimi Maura. It wasn’t the first time Mimi was in an Argentine recording studio, since up to then she had participated in tracks of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Cienfuegos and Fidel Nadal, among others.
Little by little, Mimi Maura was paving her way in the porteño underground and reaped a few followers, who later would become a crowd; a devotional group, who shaked their flags and placards at the rhythm of uncontrolled ska music. By 2001, Mimi Maura was an open secret. Her shows were performed in bastions of Buenos Aires rock scenario, such as Centro Rojas, El Dorado and El Podesta and pretty soon they conquered bigger venues such as La Trastienda, where, after several sold out concerts, they felt they were playing as home team.
The measure of performing on and on fruited: The second independent album, Raíces de Pasión, showed not only an assembled and creative band – all the members are fully involved - but also free and with swing, essential items to play this sensual, hot and irresistibly dancing music. By then this was a steady band, adding apart from Mimi, Sergio, Martín and Fernando, the talents of Maneco Saenz-Germain (guitars and vocals), Gerardo Toto Rotblat (percussion), Dante Clementino (keyboards), Hugo Lobo (trumpet and flugelhorn) and Sergio Colombo (saxophone).
Now, with the release of the album Misterio through Sony Music, Mimi Maura (the band) want to introduce their best repertoire to a market increasingly wide and in this way to conquer Argentina, Latin America and the whole world. And why not? Having in favor the grace and charm of a sound like Mimi Maura, the sky is the limit.