The Spanish artist Sheila Blanco will give a concert this Wednesday, May 18, at 7:00 p.m., in the Manuel de Falla Auditorium of the Juan de Salazar Cultural Center of Spain. Access is free and free but with prior scheduling.
‘Singing to the poets of 27’ is the name given to the tour of the pianist, composer and singer, who turned into songs a selection of poems by outstanding female authors of the Generation of 27, a group that in Spain around 1927 strongly and creativity literature.
Accompanied only by a piano and together with her voice, Sheila explores the emotion of the poems that address universal themes, personalized in the lives of each poet, such as love, pain, exile, beauty, sorrow, remorse.
This proposal is the result of three years of Blanco research, who seeks to publicize and honor these women unjustly erased from the literary generation that frames them.
As guest artists, ‘Motumba’ will be presented, a duo formed by the pianist and composer, Carlos Centurión, and the harpist and composer, Mercedes Ramírez.
To schedule the show, the public can contact (0974)599961.
THE ARTISTS
Sheila Blanco is a native of Salamanca, where she studied classical piano, bel canto and Audiovisual Communication; She then moved to Madrid where she combined journalism and music until she decided to dedicate herself exclusively to singing and composing while she continued her training as a musician.
Years later she self-released her first album ‘Sheila Down’. She was a vocalist for various musical groups such as the Larry Martin Band (Everything must change, 2012), Speak Jazzy (A song for you, 2015) or Patáx (A night to remember, 2016). She has collaborated on several TV shows (Acapela en Cero, Vermú on Movistar Plus) and radio (Anda ya! En Los40).
He currently combines the presentation of his latest album Singing to the poets of 27 with his jazz trio ‘Puro Gershwin’, among other occasional groups. He is a vocal coach for the program La Voz Kids on Antena 3 and collaborates weekly on the programs La Ventana and Sofa Sonoro on Cadena Ser.
On the other hand, Motumba is the musical project of Mercedes Ramirez and Carlos Centurión. The term was born from the Yoruban language and means “Request for blessing”. Motumba takes those ritualistic chants, the sacred touches and reverts them in the Paraguayan Harp with experimental sounds, seeking to break taboos and rescue the ancestral legacy of those peoples who, despite the conditions of slavery, were able to keep their religious cults.
Carlos Centurión is a pianist and composer with a great national and international career. He began to play in the seventies of the last century, in the atmosphere of party orchestras. In the 1980s, he began to express his passion for jazz by joining various groups, including the Asunción Jazz Quintet, which had an outstanding career in the 1990s, mainly. He has several compositions written.
Mercedes Ramirez, for her part, is a harpist, guitarist and composer, with a national and international career. She has toured various countries around the world with her music, such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Kuwait and Japan, the latter being the country where she lived the longest. She currently based in Paraguay.
