- country:USA
- style(s):World, Freestyle
- label:not signed
- type:Duo
- instrumentation:percussion, guitar
- artist posted by:Jengibre Music Consulting & Business
Line up
- Alberto Puerto (classical guitar, flamenco guitar, spanish guitar)
- Otto Santana Selis (turbadoras, cajon, bongo, batas and percussion set)
Links
Alberto Puerto & Otto Santana Selis Cuban Porject
Freestyle Jazz | Cuban Jazz
This powerful guitar and percussion duo, which brings together OTTO SANTANA SELIS: percussionist of Calle 13, with multiple albums recorded and Latin Grammy and US Grammy nominations, and ALBERTO PUERTO: versatile Cuban American guitarist who stands out in his potent and sensitive interpretations of diverse types of guitars.
The proposal makes its way in the fusion of academic music and Latin jazz, with a dazzling freestyle, full of musical colours and delicious and moving climates, always sustained by an overwhelming interpretative technique, consolidating a fresh musical proposal, which renews the genre and dazzles.
More about OTTO SANTANA SELIS:
Prestigious percussionist graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba. Creator of OTTO SANTANA TRÍO, he has collaborated with musicians of the stature of Chucho Valdes, Orishas, Cesar Lopez, Calle 13, Alexander Abreu and Habana de Primera, among others and recorded more than 40, several Latin and US Grammy nominees and winners among them ¨Visualízate¨ by Gente de Zona (Latin Grammy 2016), ¨Orquesta Akokan¨ Orchestra Akokan and ¨Gourmet¨ by Orishas, ¨Area 52¨ by Rodrigo and Gabriela.
With Amadito Valdez and Jorge Luis Pacheco, he has performed concerts in more than 30 countries (Japan, Germany, Spain, France, China, Canada, South Korea, Chile, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, etc...) including the Lincoln Center in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington, Auditorio Telmex in Mexico, among others.
Participation in numerous jazz festivals such as:
Global Fest Miami, Womex 2015 with Cucurucho Valdes, Barranquijazz, Providencia Jazz Festival -Chile, Jazz Festivals in Cayman Islands, St. Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago, Incheon Korea Music Wave with Cesar Lopez, Panama City Jazz Festival with Habana Sax, New Orleans Jazz Festival, Harlem - Havana Music Festival, Enghien-Les-Bain Festival, Morelia Jazz Festival Mexico, among others.
More about ALBERTO PUERTO:
He is currently sponsored by the prestigious luthier Bill Glez, developing his research in guitars such as -classical-: Sakurai Kohno (Japan), José Ramírez (Spain), Carlos Rodríguez "El Grillo" (Cuba), Bill Glez -classical and flamenco- (Miami USA), Jorge de Zofía -flamenca-(USA-Spain) among others, demonstrating in each of them a performance of excellence.
He has collaborated with important artists from the US, Spain, Cuba, Czech Republic, Canada, etc. Alberto Hernandez, guitarist -ConPaz Duo-Cuba, Jiri Sommer-ex violinist of the Valladolid Symphony and the Prague Opera-Czech Republic, Jose Luis de la Paz -flameco guitarist and composer- Spain-US, Yetzabel Arias-Soprano-Miami, US, Jodi Penner-Soprano-Canada-US, Yaroldy Abreu-percussionist with Chucho Valdes-Cuba, Otto Santana-jazz percussionist and leader of Otto Jazz Trio-Miami, US, Ruly Herrera-jazz percussionist and leader of The Real Project, Isanusi Rodriguez-Classical dancer-Cuban Ballet of Miami, US, Niurca Marquez-dancer and choreographer, soloist invited by the Miami Guitar Orchestra for the Concierto de Aranjuez, soloist invited by the Florida Chamber Orchestra for the Concierto Andaluz in the Miami Dade County Auditorium. Concerts of note: Baroque and Cuban music concert, University of the Arts (Berlin, Germany), UFRR Universidade Federal de Roraima-Brazil, Grace Arts Florida, US, Art Basel Miami, US, LnS Gallery Miami, US, Miami Dade County Auditorium, US, Spanish Cultural Center in Miami, US, Cernuda Arte Miami, US, Adrienne Arscht Center, Miami, US, among others.