Chucho Valdés (Band)
Biography:
Cuban pianist, composer, and arranger Chucho Valdés is the most influential figure in modern Afro-Cuban jazz. In a career spanning more than 60 years, both as a solo artist and bandleader, Mr. Valdés has distilled elements of the Afro-Cuban music tradition, jazz, classical music, rock, and more, into a deeply personal style.
Winner of seven GRAMMY® and six Latin GRAMMY® Awards, Mr. Valdés received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Science. He was also inducted into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame.
In 2024, Mr. Valdés celebrated Irakere 50, a tribute to the Cuban band that, with its bold fusion of Afro-Cuban ritual music, Cuban popular music, jazz, rock, and a splash of classical music, marked a before and after in Latin jazz. The historic concert at the Arsht Center in Miami reunited Mr. Valdés with two Irakere mainstays: reedman and composer Paquito D’Rivera and trumpeter and composer Arturo Sandoval.
Born in a family of musicians in Quivicán, Havana province, Cuba, on October 9, 1941, Dionisio Jesús “Chucho” Valdés Rodríguez has distilled elements of the Afro-Cuban music tradition, jazz, classical music, and rock into an organic, deeply personal style.
Winner of seven GRAMMY® and six Latin GRAMMY® Awards, Mr. Valdés received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Science. He was also inducted into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame.
In 2024, Mr. Valdés celebrated Irakere 50, a tribute to the Cuban band that, with its bold fusion of Afro-Cuban ritual music, Cuban popular music, jazz, rock, and a splash of classical music, marked a before and after in Latin jazz. The historic concert at the Arsht Center in Miami reunited Mr. Valdés with two Irakere mainstays: reedman and composer Paquito D’Rivera and trumpeter and composer Arturo Sandoval.
Born in a family of musicians in Quivicán, Havana province, Cuba, on October 9, 1941, Dionisio Jesús “Chucho” Valdés Rodríguez has distilled elements of the Afro-Cuban music tradition, jazz, classical music, and rock into an organic, deeply personal style.
Website: https://chucho-valdes.com/
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