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Yusa is a Cuban singer and songwriter, born in the Buena Vista district of
Havana
Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center. ,
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. Her music is recognised worldwide : in 2003, she was nominated at the prestigious
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Radio 3 World Music Awards in two categories (Best Newcomer and Best of the Americas.)
Biography
Early life and education
Born in the Buena Vista district and brought up in the modern
Alamar’s housing community of east
Havana
Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center. , Yusa’s childhood was cradled by music. She started studying guitar at the age of 6, at the
Alejandro García Caturla
Alejandro García Caturla (7 March 1906 – 12 November 1940) was a Cuban composer of art music and creolized Cuban themes.
Biography
Caturla was born in the town of Remedios, Villa Clara, Cuba. With only sixteen years old, in 1922, he won a ...
elementary school. Then, attending the
Amadeo Roldán
Amadeo Roldán y Gardes (Paris, 12 June 1900 – Havana, 7 March 1939) was a Cuban composer and violinist. Roldán was born in Paris to a Cuban mulatta and a Spanish father. It was his mother, the pianist Albertina Gardes, who initiated her ch ...
Music Conservatory, she chose to concentrate on a particular type of Cuban guitar called the
tres
Tres may refer to:
* Tres (instrument), a Cuban musical instrument
* Tres, Trentino, municipality in Italy
* "Tres" (song) by Juanes
* "Tres", a song by Líbido from their album ''Hembra''
* TrES, the ''Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey''
* Templi ...
and started performing in Havana’s bars and clubs.
Career
Yusa is a multi-instrumentalist who is perfectly at ease playing
guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...
,
bass, as well as
keyboard
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Text input
* Keyboard, part of a typewriter
* Computer keyboard
** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping
** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware
Music
* Musi ...
or percussion instruments. Her music is defined as a young and thoroughly modern musical style echoing with
funk,
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...
,
rap
Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular". It is performed or chanted, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The ...
, and soul, but keeping its connections to its deep African and Caribbean heritage. Yusa is often considered by the field of music as a poet, singing bittersweet songs, and compared with great singers as Tracy Chapman.
Her songs are very influenced by the life in Havana and by traditional Cuban music, even though she modernizes it, taking the true substance and arranging it, following the contemporary trends of the new Cuban wave.
Discography
*''Yusa'' (Tumi Music, 2002)
*''Breathe'' (Tumi Music, 2005)
*''Haiku'' (Tumi Music, 2008)
Awards
*2003:
Cubadisco, Fusion category, ''Yusa''
References
External links
BBC - Music - YusaPlanète Aurora - Artists - Yusa
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Cuban musicians
Multi-instrumentalists