Ed Calle (born Eduardo J. Calle) is a musician from
Miami, Florida
Miami is a East Coast of the United States, coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County in South Florida. It is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, which, with a populat ...
. He was born in
Caracas, Venezuela
Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern p ...
.
Calle plays the saxophones, flutes, clarinets, EWI, and keyboards, engineers projects, and performs vocals. He also
composes and
arranges music. Calle has served as Chairperson of Arts & Philosophy at
Miami Dade College North Campus and is currently Tenured Full Professor of Music Business and Production at
Miami Dade College.
During his career he was three times nominated for
Latin Grammy Award. First in 2005 for ''Ed Calle Plays Santana'', in 2007 for ''In the Zone'', and in 2014 for "Palo! Live". Calle was nominated for a
Grammy Award
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in 2015 for "Palo! Live".
Calle He has participated in multiple recording projects, which stand out:
Tita Vivar - Tiempos De Regocijo (2022)
Héctor Alejandro Cid Pérez - El Glorioso Evangelio: Celebrando 10 Años De Ministerio (2021) o (in the song "Gracias Señor")
Political Activity
In January 2017, Calle posted on
Twitter
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calling to impeach
President Barack Obama and referring to him as "The Kenyan." Aligning himself with the
Birther Movement, Calle later said in a statement titled "Response to Twitter Mob" he later issued on his personal site, "that America impeach someone whose posted birth certificate has been carefully analyzed and determined a forgery by at least two independent experts...”
Solo discography
* ''Dr. Ed Calle Presents Mamblue'', 2015 - Mojito Records
* ''In the Zone'', 2006 - Mojito Records
* ''Ed Calle Plays Santana'', 2004 - Pimienta Records
* ''Twilight'', 2001 - Concord Records
* ''Sunset Harbor'', 1999 - Concord Records
* ''Double Talk'', 1995 - Columbia Records
References
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*http://www.edcalle.com/
External links
The official siteThe Teaching Site
*http://www.saxshed.com/calle.shtml
*https://web.archive.org/web/20071130045948/http://www.grammy.com/latin/8_latin/#08
*https://www.facebook.com/edcalle
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Musicians from Caracas
American male saxophonists
American people of Venezuelan descent
Latin Grammy Award winners
21st-century American saxophonists
21st-century American male musicians