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The only performance of the most influential Bossa Nova and Jazz singer in Sweden will be in September

Leyenda: Miriam Aïda sings in Portuguese, Spanish, English, and Swedish (her native language).

Miriam Aïda is one of Sweden’s most popular Jazz singers. She has an indisputable talent, a seductive and harmonic voice, and her outstanding appearances on stage always surprise the audience thanks to her impeccable fusion of Jazz and Latin rhythms.

On Thursday, September 29^th, it will be the only concert that the Swedish singer will give at the imposing club Fasching https://www.fasching.se/miriam-aida/#2022-09-29T20-00 from 8 PM, and tickets are available from 120 SEK (persons standing) to 200 SEK.

She will create this intimate and exceptional show with the feature of five prominent musicians from the Scandinavian Jazz music scene: Mats Andersson (Guitars), Johan Olsson (Accordion and Keyboards), Simon Peterson (Bass), Finn Björnulfson (Percussion), and Ola Bothzén on Drums.

Miriam will navigate the music of the American coast, stroll along the Caribbean Sea, and descend to the magnificent beaches of Brazil to present the rhythms that took root in the New World: Bolero, Cuban Rumba, Samba-Soul, and Jazz, among other genres that together to the colorful voice of Aïda, they will perform the songs from their most recent production Loving the Alien released in 2018, in addition to their greatest hits compiled on eight albums.

This singer, leader of Bossa Nova and Latin Jazz in Sweden, has taken her show to the main cities of Japan, the United Kingdom, Brazil, France, Spain, USA, Turkey, Russia, Italy, and Germany as a soloist as with the band A Bossa Elétrica, and has had the good fortune to have shared the stage with great Brazilian personalities such as Hermeto Pascoal, Badi Assad, and guitar master Marco Pereira.

She is the Director of the record label Connective Records and radio programs.

The extensive career of Miriam Aïda www.miriamaida.com goes from her first album Jan Lundgren Trio Presents Miriam Aida & Fredrik Kronkvist released in 2002. This record production together with her husband Fredrik Kronkvist, the pianist Jan Lundgren, and two very talented young soloists performed for the first time the Funky-Soul-Jazz rhythm and standards with an American and Swedish touch.

Who is Fredrik Kronkvist? https://fredrikkronkvist.wordpress.com/bio He is a master of the Alto Saxophone and one of the established stars of Swedish Jazz. He has nearly 9 million views on digital platforms for his ballad hits Theme for Ernie. This saxophonist with extensive knowledge of the instrument and Jazz is currently releasing a new album in early 2022 with ten original ballads and directs his band made up of four musicians from the vanguard of current Jazz.

Miriam after a year of this successful album releases her debut solo album My Kind of World (2003) with classics like “Big City” and passionate Bossa Nova ballads. She continues with A Bossa Elétrica – Eletrificacao (2004), and Miriam Aïda & Fredrik Kronkvist with Monday Night Big Band – Live at the Palladium (2005) recorded live. This CD features moving, direct Jazz and Bossa nova. With this powerful Big Band, they covered great songs like Horace Silver’s Senor Blues, Nat Adderley’s Fun, Right Here, and Right Now, to name a few.

She also participated in the album Joe Spinaci and the Brookolino Orchestra-Too Darn Hot (2005) and continued with her solo album Meu Brasil (2007). The material is mainly in Portuguese and compiles great composers from different eras such as Baden Powel, Nelson Cavaquinho, and Jorge Ben. It contains a new Bossa Nova written by Miriam with Swedish lyrics and incorporated Swedish poet Nils Ferlin’s interpretation of the poem in Portuguese.

It is followed by Come on Home (2008), Letras ao Brasil (2009), Visans Väsen (2011), É De Lei! (2014) recorded in Sweden and Rio de Janeiro in collaboration with the Brazilian arranger Jayme Vignoli and the voice of one of the best singers from Rio, Marcos Sacramento, and Quatro Janelas (2015).

From 1940 to 1957, he was in charge of the arrangements, rehearsals, repertoire, hiring of the vocalists and that very particular sound, so imitated but never equaled that the “Dean of the Conjuntos” possessed.

All that sonority is due to this pianist, composer and arranger born in Matanzas, Cuba, on June 2, 1903.

Severino Ramos Betancourt was born on June 1, 1903 in Matanzas, Cuba. He was a composer, pianist, orchestrator and arranger, one of the great Cuban musicians, he worked as pianist and arranger in the Conjunto Sonora Matancera, later he founded the Sonora Cubana.

Since he was a child, music, musicians and instruments were his passion. In his family, grandparents and uncles, had to do with the bungas of Matanzas (a bunga was a small group that included piano, violin, clarinet and flute). As a child he met Cheo Jiménez and Eduardo Betancourt, trombonist of Miguel Failde’s orchestra.

Later he went to Havana where he worked successively as a tailor’s assistant, insurance collector, doorman in a cabaret, traveling salesman, substitute musician in theaters, radio stations, and a thousand other occupations that appeared along the way before becoming a professional musician, during that time he received lessons from Felix Covarrubias.

Sonora Matancera

Severino Ramos joined the famous Conjunto Sonora Matancera in 1942, as a pianist, after unsuccessful attempts to occupy positions in the Sexteto Mikito (later Conjunto Casino), replacing Enrique Rodriguez, and in other Havana groups.

Severino’s character does not go with the style of intense and nocturnal work of the group, presentations in radio stations, dances (preference of Rogelio Martínez its director), contracts in La Tropical, Cabaret Tropicana, regional Centers: Asturian Center, Galician Center and trips to provinces; so he decides at the request of the director of the Sonora to look for another pianist for the group and he stays to make the arrangements, rehearsals, preparation of repertoire, etc…, From that moment on, the star of the Conjunto Sonora Matancera really began to shine in the firmament of popular acceptance.

He became, in keeping with his calm character, an orchestra man performing all these tasks and some others, such as visiting radio stations, theaters and other places to obtain contracts for the group.

The fruits contributed by Severino Ramos between 1940 and 1957 are of extraordinary value, perhaps what makes his work more visible are his arrangements and the preparation of the regular and guest singers that accompanied the Sonora such as: Bienvenido Granda, Daniel Santos, Myrta Silva, Celia Cruz, Leo Marini, Bobby Capó, Nelson Pinedo, Estanislao Laíto Sureda, Carlos Argentino and Celio González, among others.

After the Sonora Matancera

The last days of Severino Ramos in favor of Cuban Music were as musical director of Radio Progreso since 1957, when he left the Sonora, simultaneously with the prolific and very important work at the head of the many record labels he created.

After 1959, in that first decade, 1960, many record labels emerged in Havana, plus those that came from before and he multiplied himself making arrangements, forming momentary groups, forming groups to accompany Orlando Contreras, Blanca Rosa Gil, Orlando Vallejo, Ñico Membiela, many more. He formed the Sonora de Severino Ramos and helped create the Conjunto Caney.

The following is a small sample of songs that were arranged by Severino Ramos for the Sonora Matancera:

El Tíbiri Tábara with Daniel Santos

Qué corto es el amor, with Mirtha Silva

Burundanga, Yerbero Moderno, Tu Voz, Luna sobre Matanzas, with Celia Cruz

Who will be? With Nelson Pinedo

Yo no soy guapo with Vicentico Valdes

Sujetate la lengua, with Bienvenido Granda

Aunque me cueste la vida, on the 19th, El negrito del Batey with Alberto Beltrán

El gallo, la gallina y el caballo with Manuel Licea

Piel Canela with Bobby Capó

Maringá, with Leo Marini

Who will it be? With Nelson Pinedo

Las Muchachas, with Carlos Argentino

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Severino Ramos died in Havana on November 2, 1969.

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A Salsero Festival and Tour will be the stars of the summer in the main cities of Europe

Europe welcomes Latin music events in the last month of summer this year with two impressive Salseras parties. During these events, the safety of the attendees will be guaranteed, will be an unbeatable festive atmosphere and lots of fun. So, don’t miss the opportunity to attend the Salsa Latina Istriana Festival in Croatia and the Cuban artist Maykel Blanco y Su Salsa Mayor’s European Tour, and enjoy the heat of August with your favorite Latin music.

Salsa Latina Istriana Festival 2022

DJ Sergio, DJ Marc “El Mágico” and DJ Julián Duke will be in charge of mixing the greatest Salsa hits during the Festival

Salsa Latina Istrian Festival began in 2004 as a free dance workshop with 100 dancers who love and dance enthusiasts to promote Salsa and other Caribbean dances.

This year the eighteenth edition of this festival with tradition and support for the community of European dancers arrives from August 26^th to August 29^th with four Bootcamps, workshops (Salsa, Bachata, Kizomba, Semba, and Urban Kiz), international instructors, Masterclasses, night parties, boat and beach parties (the farewell party on Monday will be free), 12 famous DJs, two free social dances on four floors, and much more.

Salsa Latina Istriana Festival 2022 http://www.salsalatinaistriana.com will be held under the precautionary measures agreed for events and dance academies.

The workshops, as well as the night parties, will take place over three days at Dom Hrvatskih Branitelja, Leharova 9, in the center of the coastal city of Pula, Croatia, and the cost of the gold pass is €150.

Maykel Blanco y su Salsa Mayor

The singles Qué Hace Que Te Mueve and Ya Tú No Coronas belong to the “Qué Hace Que Te Mueve” album released in 2019

Cuban artist Maykel Blanco and his orchestra will continue their tour of Europe (Part 2) on Saturday, August 27^th, at London’s iconic auditorium Electric Brixton with a special six-hour Cuban Salsa show. Javier La Rosa and Dr. Jim will be the evening’s Cuban DJs, while Osbanis and Anneta (Cuban Salsa Dancers and UK and World Champions) will lead a Cuban Salsa class for all levels.

On Sunday, August 28^th, they will visit Glasgow (United Kingdom) at The Garage (nightclub) and will end their tour on September 9^th at the Transformatorhuis event venue located in Amsterdam (Netherlands).

Maykel Blanco y Su Salsa Mayor made their way into the Havanera capital’s music scene more than a decade ago. This popular band in Cuba combines catchy lyrics with irresistible arrangements that get dancers, fans, and onlookers moving on the dance floor.

They currently have two great hits playing on the popularity charts of the most important radio stations on the Afro-Caribbean Island, Ya Tú No Coronas (2019) and Qué Hace Que Te Mueve (2019).

“Maykel was born in San Leopoldo, a neighborhood of the Centro Habana municipality in the Cuban capital, on January 21^st, 1981, the year that began a decade of splendor for Cuban popular music. With academic training at the Guillermo Tomás Music Schools and the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory, at the age of 17, he joined the orchestra “Abel y la Seducción” and a year later created, “Suprema Ley”, thus starting his outstanding career professional.

At this stage, he arouses the interest of the Spanish record label Envidia Record with which he signed his first international contract. With this record company, he managed to produce more than ten phonograms for his group and various other artists, including Tirso Duarte. He also participated in the recording of 40 albums as a percussionist in various productions and created music for various “Latin Jazz” groups, such as “Havana Express”.

Maykel decides on October 10^th, 2004 to make his big debut with his new orchestra “Maykel Blanco y Su Salsa Mayor”, made up of talented musicians, who graduated from various art schools in the nation.

Since then and up to the present, he has devoted his energy, creation, and musical talent to this interesting project. Thus, allowing his professional career to continue on the rise, as a pianist, percussionist, composer, music producer, arranger, and cultural promoter reaching a high level of popularity and prestige, in Cuba and the world”. Fragments extracted from Maykel Blanco biography. http://www.maykelblanco.com/

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