Domingo Cura

Domingo Cura (born April 7, 1929 in Santiago del Estero , † November 13, 2004 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine percussionist.

In his youth in Santiago del Estero, Cura played foxtrot, tango and jazz with an orchestra. At the age of eighteen he came to Santiago with the harmonica player Hugo Díaz . Here he interpreted Caribbean music and jazz in the 1950s and performed with musicians such as Nat King Cole , Lucho Gatica and the Trío Los Panchos and the groups René Cospitos and Eduardo Armanis . At RCA Victor he played his first album with the Santa Anita Sextet .

He also played Argentine folklore with Hugo Díaz and recorded the album Folklore nueva dimensión in 1961 with the pianist Ariel Ramírez and the charango player Jaime Torres . A high point of his career was the recording of Misa Criolla with its composers Ramírez, Jaime Torres and Los Fronterizos . He also worked with Gato Barbieri and contributed to Mercedes Sosa's Cantata Sudamericana .

The album Despertemos en America was created in 1972 from the collaboration with the rock musician Lito Nebbia . In the same year Cura also worked on Roque Narvaja's album Octubre . In the 1990s he played the album Las aventuras de Lito Nebbia y Domingo Cura with the Los Gatos . In 2002 he was the percussionist on Gustavo Cerati's album Siempre es hoy . Furthermore, Cura u. a. with Eduardo Lagos , Kelo Palacios , Astor Piazzolla and Milton Nascimento . He performed with jazz musician Gerry Mulligan and took part with Gato Barbieri at the Newport Jazz Festival in New York's Central Park. Cura died of heart failure in 2004 at the age of seventy-five while performing with Chico Novarro .

Solo albums

Tiempo de percusión
Gloria
El Dios de los parches
La percusión en el folclore argentino
La Peregrinacion
Quena, Charango y Bombo

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personal data
SURNAME	Cura, Domingo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentine percussionist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Santiago del Estero (city)
DATE OF DEATH	November 13, 2004
Place of death	Buenos Aires