The celebrated Cuban pianist Omar Sosa plays his singular style of Afro-Cuban jazz - infused with Monk, rap, and Chopin - with an entrancing mix of harmonic daring and rhythmic drive born of his early training as a percussionist. "Sosa's music is the unifying sort, yoking together Africa and jazz and Latin America and hip-hop," wrote The New York Times critic Ben Ratliff. "He makes it work, being one of those rare birds whose keyboard skills are near those of Chick Corea or Chucho Valdés."
A international favorite since he emerged on the Bay Area's Latin scene in the 1990s, Sosa won the Jazz Journalists Association's 2003 Afro-Caribbean Jazz Album of the Year Award for his recording Sentir, received a lifetime achievement award from the Smithsonian for his contribution to the development of Latin jazz in the United States, and has been nominated for multiple GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY awards.
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A international favorite since he emerged on the Bay Area's Latin scene in the 1990s, Sosa won the Jazz Journalists Association's 2003 Afro-Caribbean Jazz Album of the Year Award for his recording Sentir, received a lifetime achievement award from the Smithsonian for his contribution to the development of Latin jazz in the United States, and has been nominated for multiple GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY awards.
The celebrated Cuban pianist Omar Sosa plays his singular style of Afro-Cuban jazz - infused with Monk, rap, and Chopin - with an entrancing mix of harmonic daring and rhythmic drive born of his early training as a percussionist. "Sosa's music is the unifying sort, yoking together Africa and jazz and Latin America and hip-hop," wrote The New York Times critic Ben Ratliff. "He makes it work, being one of those rare birds whose keyboard skills are near those of Chick Corea or Chucho Valdés."
A international favorite since he emerged on the Bay Area's Latin scene in the 1990s, Sosa won the Jazz Journalists Association's 2003 Afro-Caribbean Jazz Album of the Year Award for his recording Sentir, received a lifetime achievement award from the Smithsonian for his contribution to the development of Latin jazz in the United States, and has been nominated for multiple GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY awards.
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A international favorite since he emerged on the Bay Area's Latin scene in the 1990s, Sosa won the Jazz Journalists Association's 2003 Afro-Caribbean Jazz Album of the Year Award for his recording Sentir, received a lifetime achievement award from the Smithsonian for his contribution to the development of Latin jazz in the United States, and has been nominated for multiple GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY awards.
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