Daniel Bazanta

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Daniel Bazanta (born March 1, 1946 in Villavicencio ; † March 13, 2012 ) was a Colombian percussionist who spent most of his career in Germany, where he was also known as Daniel Basanta .

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Bazanta's family, a family of musicians, lived in the Amazon basin until they were evicted in 1950. Since then he grew up in Bogotá , where his father taught him to drum from the age of seven. The singer Totó la Momposina is his sister. As a musician, he had the opportunity to take part in the 1970 World Expo in Osaka . In 1973 he was invited to the GDR Youth Festival with the rock group La Columna Fuego , of which he was a member at the time ; a three-month tour through the Soviet Union followed.

Due to the tense situation in Colombia, Bazanta decided to stay in Europe and settled in Spain in 1973. In 1979 he came to Germany, where he initially worked primarily with the church musician Peter Janssens , with whom he can be heard on many records. He also founded his world music band Yamambó , with which the label Forty-five released a first album in 1985; more albums followed. He also belonged to the Duisburg jazz rock band Glatter Wahnsinn , from which the formation Supersession around Waldo Karpenkiel became. Then he played in the jazz rock band Rimaak , with which two albums were released. Concert tours have taken Bazanta to many European countries. He can also be heard as a percussionist on albums by Dunkelziffer , Dominik von Senger, Bernd Strohm and Volker Kriegel ( Biton Grooves ).

He also worked as a co-organizer of international festivals and gave school lessons. From 2004 to 2012, Bazanta organized the Carnaval Latino in Münster every year on Carnival Sunday . He died of complications from cancer.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death report
  2. ↑ a b Daniel Bazanta speaks the language of music. In: Westfälische Nachrichten . August 5, 2008, accessed September 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Absolute madness
  4. ↑ The school community mourns the loss of Daniel Bazanta
  5. ↑ Posters for Daniel Bazanta - Carnaval Latino. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bazanta, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Basanta, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian percussionist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Villavicencio
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 2012