New Latin Sound | Musicians

Meet The Musicians

Lucio Garcia

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Lucio Garcia is a professional musician,
a singer, composer, arranger, guitar player, tres player, guitar and tres teacher.

Lucio was born on November 8, 1961 in Havana City (Marianao) and studied at the Havana conservatory.
In 1981 he graduated at the national school of art-professors (ENIA) and specialised in developing music formations. For a period of 5 years he was a tutor and director at many different Havana music schools. In this function he won a great deal of prices at national music festivals.

In 1986 his career took a new turn. As a professional musician he was a part of INTUR and EGREM (music companies) and performed in bands such as Caribe Expreso, Okan and Karisma. These bands played in the most in famous theatres and cabarets such as Caribe, Copa Rum, Salon Rojo, Parisien and last but not least the Tropicana.

Lucio toured, Mexico, Ecuador, Curacao, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominican Republic, Panama, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Austria, Singapore, North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland, Belgium and Monaco. At the Sporting Club Montecarlo he shared the stage with international stars such as: George Benson, Donna Summer, Dionne Warwick, Manhattan Transfer, The Pointer Sisters, Fats Domino and the Temptations.

Since 1993 Lucio Garcia lives in Holland where he is working as professional musician.

In 2005, he toured in Holland and a part of Belgium with the famous Buena Vista Social Club at his side the star as: Pio Leyva.

As guest musician he has been working together with a lot of dutch musician for example Piet Veerman, Jody Bernal in his videoclip: Chica Bonita, Trijntje Oosterhuis, Metropole Orkest, Carel Kraayenhof, Katja Schuurman, Paskal Jacobsen (Blof), etc.

In his compositions and arrangement we notice the influence of many styles for example: Rock, Pop, Flamenco en Jazz.

Website of Lucio Garcia
www.luciogarcia.com

Pauliina May

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Pauliina May, born in Finland, is a versatile professional vocalist of many styles with a wide repertoire of Afro-Cuban music.
She graduated from The Latin Department of the Rotterdams Conservatorium, The Netherlands.

Besides Afro-Cuban music her intrest and passion lies in Jazz, Argentinean and Finnish tango.
Pauliina May has worked as a lead singer within small combos to international Big Bands and has been performing in various big international events, festivals and night clubs in multiple countries and places:
North Sea Jazz Festival (NL), Pori Jazz (FI), Curacao, Bonaire, St Maarten, Aruba, Belgium, France, Germany, Croatia, Romania, Norway, Sweden.... and list goes on....with Big Bands like UMO Jazz Orquestra, Estonian Dream Big Band Orquestra, Romanian Radio Big Band, and bands as El Septeto, Septeto Son, La Banda IrE, Fiestecita, Grupo Aché, Son Caribe, Rumbatá, Cubop City Big Band just to mention a few things from her career.

Pauliina May lives in The Netherlands and has been teaching 5 years Afro-Cuban vocals at Codarts, Rotterdam. (Former Rotterdams Conservatorium). Currently she is teaching vocal techniques and stage performance within various music genres at her own Pauliina May Vocal Studio in Kinderdijk, NL.

She speaks Spanish, English, Dutch and naturally Finnish, which makes your international guests feeling very welcome at your event & party!

Website of Pauliina May.
www.pauliinamay.com

Adriaan Correa

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Adriaan Joaquin Correa
Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands from a Chilean father and a Dutch mother, percussionist and producer represents a new generation of percussion players in Europe.

With a background in Psychology, Electronic and Latin music, he is capable of building bridges between different worlds, cultures and disciplines.

On Adriaan’s 15th birthday, his father came home with a set of conga drums. The transition from piano playing and electronic beats to Latin rhythms is then made in the blink of an eye. This marks the start of his career as a percussionist.

Adriaan has studied at the conservatories of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Havana with some of the world’s top players and educators, like Luisito Quintero, Giovanni Hidalgo, Edwin Bonilla, Changuito, Pepe Espinosa, Samuel Torres, Adel González, Ray Colón, Gerardo Rosales, and Martin Verdonk. He has been working as a musical director for singer Rolf Sanchez and has been touring world wide with versatile latin musicians, to mention singer Gloria Estefan, for example.