Songs
Piazzolla's unique candombe piece. Arranged by Emilio Solla
- 1 Yo soy el negro (Piazzolla-Ferrer)
- 2 Balada para mi muerte (Piazzolla-Ferrer)
- 3 La primera palabra (Piazzolla-Ferrer)
- 4 Vuelvo al sur (Piazzolla-Solanas)
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- country:Argentina
- region:South America
- style(s):Acoustic, World
- label:not signed
- type:Band, Solo, Composer/Songwriter
- gender:female
- instrumentation:instrumental, vocal
- artist posted by:Maria Cangiano
Line up
- Juan Pablo Jofre Romarion (bandoneon)
- Julio Santillan (guitar)
- Laura Arpianen (violin)
- Maria Cangiano (vocals)
- Martin Balik (acoustic bass)
- Maurizio Najt (piano)
- Mauro Satalino (percussion)
- Mercedes Figueras (saxo)
- Quintino Cinalli (percussion)
Links
MARIA CANGIANO has a unique voice within a new generation of Argentine musicians in New York. Her musical journey mirrors her gypsy life, being a daughter of Italian immigrants from middle eastern roots, raised in Argentina and exposed to Tango and South American folk music, who came to the US and discovered Jazz, Blues and Afro music. Born in Buenos Aires from Neapolitan family, she went to the US to do her PhD in Latin American History and upon completing it, she left the academia for the performing arts.. Inspired by her Neapolitan grandfather who was an opera singer, Maria Cangiano had a classical training and performed many mezzosoprano opera roles at Opera Theaters in New York City, such as Regina Opera, Dicapo Opera and Amato Opera. In 2001 she started to interpret and performed traditional and new tango songs, a repertory little known in the US. She directed and performed her own one-woman show, called Tango in Black and Red with her first band El Cuarteto de Maria. She brought her dramatic interpretation of old and new Tango songs to many New York famous venues, such as Blue Note, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Bowery Club, Cornelia Street Cafe, Night and Day, DROM and Joe's Pub. She has shared the stage with some of Argentina's most famous musicians, such as Fernando Otero, Octavio Brunetti, Raul Jaurena, Pedro Giraudo, Julio Santillan, Tito Castro among others.
She has just released a new CD at Blue Note, January 25th, 2009: BALLADS FOR MY LIFE & DEATH: TRIBUTE TO ASTOR PIAZZOLLA is part of a long term project of reinterpreting Astor Piazzolla's song repertory with new arrangements by a young generation of Argentina composers. The CD will be released in Buenos Aires at the Centro Cultural Torquato Tasso this coming August and in Europe during January 2010. The main idea of the project is to revisted Piazzolla's song repertory exploring his less known musical influences, such as Jazz, Classical and Folk, and incorporating other musical styles, such as pop, rock and even electronic music to his music. The first cd of the series gathers unknown and well-known songs arranged by Fernando Otero (www.fernandootero.com), Julio Santillan (www.juliosantillan.com) and Emilio Solla (www.emiliosolla.com).
Her other two current projects include a collection of Argentine Afro songs in collaboration with master Argentine percussionist Quintino Cinalli (http://www.myspace.com/marceloquintinocinalli) and her own musical compositions, mixed of different South American styles with Jorge Luis Borges and Alejandra Pizarnik poetry.
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