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The
World Music Project presents
Friday
May 2
Waterfront Hall 8.00pm
Yusa is living proof that not everyone in Cuba is making
music like their grandaddy! Yes, of course there are urban
echoes of classic trova songs, but it’s offshoots
like bolero and notably ‘filin’ that inform
this true voice of the 21st century whose songs break
down the labels usually imposed on the island’s music.
As a modern troubadour, Yusa, like others in her peer
group, is as influenced by Spanish and North American
pop and jazz as by ‘nueva trova’ and son. After
all Yusa grew up with her ear stimulated by everything
Cuba had to offer as well as a legion of international
musicians including Miles Davis, Peter Gabriel, Sting,
Stevie Wonder, Chick Corea and Jaco Pastorius. And she’s
of a generation whose musical world owes as much to their
contemporaries in Brazil; Lenine, Chico Science, Chico
Cesar, Carlinhos Brown - as to anything home grown.
Tickets £10/£6 concession available from
the Waterfront Hall on 028 9033 4455
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