Omar Sosa

有的人把Omar Sosa的音乐看作是爆发的维苏威火山，而其他人则非常欣赏通过神秘虔诚的咒语表现的那种来自于非洲的音乐风格。在去年春天的法国电台现场直播中，这2种感觉轮番震撼着听者，来自古巴的Omar Sosa仿佛是拥有强大和声和优美旋律的复仇女神。精良的唱片制作和日渐的名声鹊起，这些都促使如呼吸般的微风演变为巨大的风暴：“鸡尾酒” Sosa已经名扬天下了。除了这些，这次发展成为四重奏。一名新成员加入了，他就是Luis Depestre，原来的萨克斯演奏者的助手。他并没有参与专辑中的所有曲目，他的保留曲目在于Anga Diaz的打击乐部分，这些都非常的奏效。
Omar Sosa的现场演奏是非常令人期待的。你完全可以期待你的耳朵将感受到一个伟大的钢琴演奏家的精彩表演。当我们亲眼看到他的音乐会，看到一个人对钢琴的丰富感情和痴迷程度如此的生动富有戏剧性甚至会让我们忘记了音乐家本身的能力。
Multi-instrumentalist Omar Sosa was born on April 10, 1965, in Camaguey, Cuba. At the age of five, Sosa began studying music at the Escuela Provincial de Musica in Camaguey, which led to his intense study of drums and percussion at two other schools during the late '70s/early '80s: Cuba's Escuela Nacional de Musica and Instituto Superior de Arte. Sosa then began to teach percussion to children before he created the group Tributo in 1986, for which Sosa penned and oversaw the material for two of their albums, and toured. This was followed up by Sosa's work with Cuban vocalist Vicente Feliú (1988's Arteporética), the group XL Talla Extra with Cuban vocalist Xiomara Laugart, the jazz fusion outfit Entrenoz, the Afro-Ecuadorian band Koral y Esmeralda, and playing keyboards in the band Koan Fussion. And in the late '90s, Sosa began issuing solo albums: the 1996 solo piano showcase Omar Omar, 1997's ensemble-based Free Roots, 1998's Inside, 1999's Spirit of Roots and Bembon, and 2000's Prietos. In addition, Sosa has also produced recordings for Ricardo Williams, Leo Mass, and Vino y Miel. Two years later, Sosa issued the eccentric jazz album Sentir. It was later nominated for a Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album in fall 2002.