Carlos del Junco
Carlos del Junco (* 1958 in Havana , Cuba ) is a Canadian harmonica player of Cuban origin. He not only plays the blues harmonica, but is also a sought-after artist in other musical genres.
Life
At the age of one he emigrated with his parents to Canada , where he began to play the harmonica at the age of fourteen. He made his first appearance with his math teacher on a talent show at his high school. He graduated from university as a visual artist (sculptor). This training also gave him a different perspective on music. He said that music is just another way of creating surfaces and shapes.
Del Junto learned his harmonica technique in Chicago with Howard Levy , a jazz harmonica player. In the 1980s he performed with groups of various styles, including the Latin / reggae / R&B band Eyelevel , the Ontario College of Art Swing Band and for six years with the rhythm and blues group The Buzz Upshaw Band . In 1991 he composed and played the music for Tomson Highways, a play that won the Dora Award , Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing . The production toured all of Canada and stayed on schedule for seven weeks at Toronto's Royal Alex Theater. In 1993 he recorded his first album Blues , a collection of blues classics, with Bill Kinnar on Big Reed Records. Kinnar played acoustic guitar and dobro and sang. At the Hohner Harmonica World Championship in Trossingen in 1993 he won gold medals in both the diatonic blues and the jazz category.
Since 1996 he has performed regularly in Canada, but also in Germany and the USA. In 2000 he played at the Harmonica Summit 2000 in Minneapolis, where he also led a workshop. In 2003 he opened for Ray Charles at the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival . In the years since his first CD, he has been nominated many times for the Toronto Blues Society's Maple Leaf Blues Award, which he also won between 2004 and 2007.
Discography
- 1993 blues
- 1995 Big Road Blues
- 1996 Just Your Fool
- 1999 Big Boy
- 2001 Up and at 'Em
- 2005 Blues Mongrel
- 2008 steady movin '
- 2011 Mongrels Mash
literature
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage Carlos del Junco ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Carlos del Junco's website ( memento of the original from March 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b http://www.hunterharp.com/carlos-del-junco/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Junco, Carlos del |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian blues musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Havana , Cuba |