Yilian Cañizares

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Yilian Cañizares (2015)

Yilian Cañizares (* 1983 in Havana ) is a Cuban - Swiss musician who has lived in Switzerland since 2000.

Life

Yilian Cañizares, who was born in Havana , studied violin there in the strict Russian tradition. In 1997 she moved to Venezuela to continue her studies. Three years later she moved to Switzerland to complete her education at the Friborg Conservatory . She first planned to become a classical musician. In Switzerland, she began to be more interested in jazz and decided to sing. She still lives there and now has Swiss citizenship. She found her own style after discovering the music of the French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli . She decided to mix his way with Cuban music.

After finishing her studies, she founded the band Ochumare , which means “rainbow” in Yoruba , with David Brito ( double bass ) and Cyril Régamey ( drums and percussion ). She then continued her career under her own name. It was named 2013 Discovery of the Year by the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur and the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles included its album Invocación in the Ten Must-Have Albums in South America in 2015. She also teaches violin and jazz improvisation at the Lausanne Music School .

style

Her style is a reflection of various influences with a touch of jazz , classical music , Cuban music and plenty of room for improvisation. The French magazine Les Inrockuptibles speaks of a jazz instrumentation mixed with yoruba ritual percussion. She sings in Spanish, Yoruba and French and one of her characteristics is that she sings and plays at the same time.

Discography

Ochumare Quartet

  • 2009: Caminos
  • 2011: Somos Ochumare

Yilian Cañizares

  • 2013: Ochumare , Naïve Records
  • 2015: Invocación , Naïve Records

Omar Sosa - Yilian Cañizares

  • 2018: Aguas , Sosafunke Music Publishing

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Demandez le programs (video). In: TV5 , broadcast 64 minutes , March 8, 2015. Accessed May 30, 2015. 
  2. ↑ a b Yilian Cañizares, de Bach a la santería . In: Radio France Internationale , February 10, 2014. Retrieved June 2, 2015. 
  3. ↑ a b Yilian Cañizares, Havanaise du monde . In: Le Courrier , April 3, 2015. Retrieved May 25, 2015. 
  4. ↑ a b c La Suisse, une autre île nourricière . In: Le Temps , April 5, 2013. Retrieved May 17, 2015. 
  5. ^ A b Yilian Cañizares, par-delà les océans et les traditions . In: Le Nouvelliste , March 2013. 
  6. ↑ The singer and violinist Yilian Cañizares in Moods . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 16, 2013. Accessed June 6, 2015. 
  7. ↑ Violon magique - la chanterelle du latin jazz . In: Le Nouvel Observateur , January 30, 2014. Accessed May 17, 2015. 
  8. ↑ a b Dix albums incontournables d'Amérique du Sud . In: Les Inrockuptibles , April 11, 2015. Retrieved May 30, 2015. 
  9. ↑ Yilian Cañizares - Havana is located in the Waatland . In: Radio SRF 2 Kultur . Retrieved June 3, 2015.
  10. ↑ Télévision suisse romande Le 12:45 . May 3, 2013. Accessed May 31, 2015. 
personal data
SURNAME Cañizares, Yilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban-Swiss musician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century