Come and Join Kiki Valera y su Son Cubano who will be celebrating their New CD Release at Joe’s Pub.
Friday, July 5th
Set Times: 7:00, 9:30 pm
425 Lafayette St
New York, NY 10003
Tickets can be purchased using this link: https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2024/k/kiki-valera/
“Son Cubano, much like American jazz, has been in a constant state of evolution from its beginnings. Valera continues in that spirit, shedding new and modern light on the music.”
— All About Jazz
…one of the world’s greatest exponents of the cuatro…Valera specializes in son, the infectious call-and-answer Cuban song form, but solos like a jazz guy.
— SEATTLE TIMES
NEW CD – Vacilón Santiaguero – https://kikivalera.bandcamp.com/album/vacil-n-santiaguero
Vacilón Santiaguero, by Kiki Valera y su Son Cubano
12 track album
kikivalera.bandcamp.com
Kiki Valera is one of Cuba’s foremost cuatro-guitar virtuosos and a fourth-generation member of La Familia Valera Miranda, the pioneers renowned for more than a century as creators of Eastern Cuba’s Son tradition. Over the last century, this style of traditional Cuban music has contributed to many other musical genres, including jazz, cha-cha-cha, mambo and salsa. Cuban Son is the music that made the Buena Vista Social Club worldwide stars in the late 1990s, but Kiki Valera comes from a family of musicians whose involvement with Son pre-dates the BVSC by decades. Now based in the United States, Valera’s dynamic ensemble features many of Latin America’s most outstanding musicians including lead vocalists Carlos Cascante (Spanish Harlem Orchestra) and Victor Castillo (Giraldo Piloto y Klimax) and extraordinary trumpeters Alexis Baró (Cubanismo, Omara Portuondo) and Pete Nater (Salsa Legends and Masters Academy).
VACILÓN SANTIAGUERO is Kiki Valera’s second US solo release after many distinguished years as director of La Familia Valera Miranda in Santiago de Cuba. It reaches beyond his core performing group to present collaborations with some GRAMMY® award winning musicians and to feature his favorite trumpeters, some Cuban-born, others US-born, but all with justified reputations for playing Cuban music out of love if not from DNA.
KIKI VALERA VACILÓN SANTIAGUERO
(Circle 9 Music C90007)
Street Date: May 31, 2024
UPC: 611851842512
www.kikivalera.com
www.circle9music.com/label
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