Music: Omar Sosa - Reposo (Cuba)

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Cuba is one of the paradises of the music of our world.
His musicians have a wonderful formation.
Education in Cuba is very important.
People in Cuba uses the books.
Very good people, too friendly.
Some part of my heart is in some Cuban angels that I met in my life.
I also pray for my angels with music.
To: Ss, agG an E, little E, fc, and others

Cuba es uno de los paraísos de la música de nuestro mundo.
Sus músicos tienen una formación maravillosa.
La educación en Cuba es muy importante.
La gente en Cuba utiliza los libros.
Muy buena gente, muy amistosa.
Una parte de mi corazón está en algunos ángeles cubanos que conocí en mi vida.
(como dijo el filósofo anónimo cubano: ¡No es facil!)

Thanks to Wikipedia for this data: 

Omar Sosa (born April 10, 1965, in Camagüey, Cuba) is a composer, bandleader, and jazz pianist.

Biography

Sosa began studying marimba at age eight, then switched to piano at the Escuela Nacional de Musica in Havana, where he studied jazz. Sosa moved to Quito, Ecuador in 1993, then San Francisco, California in 1995. In San Francisco he became deeply involved in the local Latin jazz scene and began a long collaboration with percussionist John Santos. He also made a series of recordings with producer Greg Landau, including the ground-breaking Oaktown Irawo, featuring Tower of Power drummer Dave Garibaldi, Cuban saxophonist Yosvany Terry and Cuban percussionist Jesus Diaz. Sosa and Landau recorded with Carlos "Patato" Valdes and Pancho Quinto and worked on several film scores. In approximately 1999 Sosa moved to Barcelona, Spain.

Musical style

He has played with a number of world musicians all around the globe, and often collaborates with those outside the jazz and Afro-Cuban traditions. Sosa mixes jazz influences alongside Latin rhythms, North Africanspoken word/rap lyrics. He also references Classical music. Deeply political and spiritual, he describes his music as an expression of humanism and Santeria. On various projects his sounds have ranged from pleasant and melodic, big Latin band, piano improvization, world music, to free jazz and avant-garde. percussions and

Current projects 

Omar recently collaborated once again with Greg Landau for a CD with Peruvian singer Susana Baca, deconstructing the music of Cuban legend Bola de Nieve. His newest band, Afreecanos, explores African traditions in a powerful funky mixture that breaks many of the conventions of jazz and World music.