Calle Francia, 353. Dpto 101. Miraflores
18 Lima
Peru

http://www.luzkatharine.com

Peruvian Popular Music and Dance. Black, Andean, Arabo-Andalusian, Gypsy a very special mix that concentrates an everchanging and contemporary Peru.

public contact

• phone: +41 767262786

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activities

• Artist
  • Manager

participating in

• WOMEX 2012

company description

Luz Katharine began his carrer researching for years all music and dance traditions of Peru, in Andean indigenous communities, in the black culture of the coast. She also searched arabic, andalusian and african influences in Peruvian artistic traditions and what makes Peruvian music of the coast so special.

After travelling the world between Latin America, Europe and Africa, researching and studying, playing music and singing, dancing, creating theater-dance shows as a choregrapher and dancer (between Cusco, Salvador de Bahia and Yaoundé) and searching for her cultural roots she decided to go back to Peru and produce a CD of Peruvian music, rooted in all its tradtions and influences, which gives this production its so particular touch.

She has had the luck to do so with the greatest black peruvian guitar master of the last 5 decades "Maestro Felix Casaverde" and one of the best afro-peruvian percusionnist ever, Juan Medrano Cotito (Susana Baca, Novalima). It resulted in a fantastic CD, "EROS Y TANTOS, ... Las Flores Buenas de Chabuca y Felix", which has received a warm welcoming when released in February of this year and is distributed by Phantom Music in Peru under XENDRA label (Peru).

This CD has been selected for LATIN GRAMMY AWARDS COMPETITION 2012 in Best New Artist and Best Folk Album categories.

It has also been selected by the Peruvian Tourism Board to represent Peru at WOMEX 2012 (World Music Expo, www.womex.com).