Artist: Totó la Momposina
Title: Tanguita
Label: Astar Artes Recordings
Catalogue no: AARDLS049
Release date: 22.5.20
A magnificent singer, Totó La Momposina has earned respect and admiration all over the world for the power and spontaneity of her performance. Drawing on the music and dance of the Colombian Caribbean, her work is informed and inspired by a rich cultural mix that combines elements from African, Native Indian and Spanish traditions.
Normally associated with powerful rhythmic pieces and a full band, this is an unusual and very personal song performed solo a cappella. 80 this year, Totó is a proud grandmother with 9 grandchildren. She spent many hours looking after them as babies and would often sing this lullaby, Tanguita, to comfort and lull them to sleep. Something of a family treasure therefore, this is the first time Tanguita has been released and we hope it is of help to mothers and babies everywhere!
Totó La Momposina's entire life has been dedicated to representing the music of Colombia’s Caribbean coastline. As a singer, dancer and teacher she embodies that fertile place where Colombia’s African, Indigenous Indian and Spanish cultures mingle to create a unique musical tradition. Totó is not only its greatest interpreter, but a restless innovator too. Whilst still a child, civil war forced her family to flee their home and move to the capital Bogotá. There her mother started a dance group from which Totó emerged as a promising singer in the 1950s, forming her own band in the 1960s. She began touring internationally a decade later but it wasn’t until the early 1990s that her global fame was cemented by a WOMAD tour across three continents, the release of La Candela Viva on Real World Records and the many international shows and recordings that followed. She continues to work tirelessly to promote the music of her homeland, driven by passion and the simple joy of performance. In 2006 she was presented with the WOMEX Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2013 the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, followed in 2016 by the French Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
For further information: euridice@astarartesrecordings.co.uk
www.astarartes.com
Produced by John Hollis
Recorded by Jonathan Lane at Sunny Spells, Bristol, UK
Mastered by Franz Erl, High Line, Gronsdorf, Germany
Also, after the Astar website address please add:
https://www.facebook.com/TotolaMomposinaOfficial/
https://www.instagram.com/totomomposina/
https://totolamomposina.bandcamp.com
Title: Tanguita
Label: Astar Artes Recordings
Catalogue no: AARDLS049
Release date: 22.5.20
A magnificent singer, Totó La Momposina has earned respect and admiration all over the world for the power and spontaneity of her performance. Drawing on the music and dance of the Colombian Caribbean, her work is informed and inspired by a rich cultural mix that combines elements from African, Native Indian and Spanish traditions.
Normally associated with powerful rhythmic pieces and a full band, this is an unusual and very personal song performed solo a cappella. 80 this year, Totó is a proud grandmother with 9 grandchildren. She spent many hours looking after them as babies and would often sing this lullaby, Tanguita, to comfort and lull them to sleep. Something of a family treasure therefore, this is the first time Tanguita has been released and we hope it is of help to mothers and babies everywhere!
Totó La Momposina's entire life has been dedicated to representing the music of Colombia’s Caribbean coastline. As a singer, dancer and teacher she embodies that fertile place where Colombia’s African, Indigenous Indian and Spanish cultures mingle to create a unique musical tradition. Totó is not only its greatest interpreter, but a restless innovator too. Whilst still a child, civil war forced her family to flee their home and move to the capital Bogotá. There her mother started a dance group from which Totó emerged as a promising singer in the 1950s, forming her own band in the 1960s. She began touring internationally a decade later but it wasn’t until the early 1990s that her global fame was cemented by a WOMAD tour across three continents, the release of La Candela Viva on Real World Records and the many international shows and recordings that followed. She continues to work tirelessly to promote the music of her homeland, driven by passion and the simple joy of performance. In 2006 she was presented with the WOMEX Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2013 the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, followed in 2016 by the French Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
For further information: euridice@astarartesrecordings.co.uk
www.astarartes.com
Produced by John Hollis
Recorded by Jonathan Lane at Sunny Spells, Bristol, UK
Mastered by Franz Erl, High Line, Gronsdorf, Germany
Also, after the Astar website address please add:
https://www.facebook.com/TotolaMomposinaOfficial/
https://www.instagram.com/totomomposina/
https://totolamomposina.bandcamp.com
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