Havana, June 26 (RHC)-- Piano virtuoso Chucho Valdés gave a concert Friday, June 25th, at the Singular Fest in Andalucia, Spain.
Chucho’s concert took place at Sevilla’s Plaza de España with a capacity of 1,500 seats.
The Singular Fest is an artistic and cultural festival. It is being held from June 19th through the 29th, as cultural attractions across Andalucia began to reopen, following a drop in Covid-19 infections.
Other featured artists include Pasion Vega, M Clan, Buika and Maria Jose Llergo, offering a wide range of acts spanning folk, flamenco, pop, jazz and opera.
Considered among the world’s top five pianists, Chucho Valdés said the repertoire of the concert mixed several Cuban genres, notably rumba with jazz. He premiered the piece ‘Mozart a la cubana’, which is a danzon tune as tribute to the Austrian composer.
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 six GRAMMY® and four Latin GRAMMY® Awards, Mr. Valdés, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Science last year and was also inducted in the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Friday’s presentation in Andalucia was the first of the current tour that includes performances at several other festivals across Spain, namely Festival Castillo de Ainsa, in the Spanish región of Huesca (July 3rd), the San Fernando de Cádiz event, in the framework of the Bahia Sound Festival (July 8th), as well as other planned performances in Parador de Toledo (July 16), followed by another concert in Madrid on July 25.
