The pianist and world reference of jazz, chucho valdes, will offer a concert in Torremolinos, Malaga, for the benefit of Cudeca (Care for Cancer patients). The event, which will be held at the Príncipe de Asturias Auditorium, this Thursday the 17th, will serve to commemorate the Foundation’s 30th anniversary.
“Concerts are always special, but this one more for what it is about. Anyone who doesn’t move their feet here is fried”, warned Valdés, who, regarding the group that accompanies him, said that the quartets he has made throughout his career “have all been good, but this is a superquartet, this is already over and overreaching”.
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“They are possibly the youngest and brightest talents in Cuban music, but they are capable of playing any musical genre, even flamenco,” the musician said in an interview for efe.
Chucho Valdés will be accompanied by Dafnis Prieto on drums, Roberto Jr. Vizcaíno on percussion and José Gola on double bass. The musician also referred to the importance of fusion in his career.
“Almost all of us have African descent, but also a lot of Spanish. My great-grandfather was Spanish. That rhythmic fusion that you have is combined with the African part and this is Afro-Cuban jazz (…). That is there, in the DNA, ”she assured.
The musician considers his father’s work an “example”, baby valdesalong with Spanish Diego El Cigala in black tears, because “that was the merger that went off”.
“Music is universal, and it is also the soundtrack of life. Throughout our lives there are moments in which music takes us to one time or another (…). Music expresses everything, sometimes without words”, proclaims the 81-year-old Cuban artist.
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The Cudeca Foundation cares for some 1,700 people each year who suffer from cancer or other advanced diseases. According to report of MalagaTodaythe Valdés saga has been closely related to Cudeca since Bebo Valdés offered his first charity concert in 2007. During that show, Chucho then joined him to perform a piece for four hands that left an audience speechless to the roar of applause.
Already in 2014, he sang with the Mallorcan artist, Buika shell, in homage to his father Bebo Valdés in an event that commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Foundation. In 2015, he was named ambassador of Cudeca.
With information from MálagaHoy and Efe.
