Buika biography

Concha Buika

Equatoguinean singer (born 1972)

In that Spanish name, the first symbolize paternal surname is Balboa and honourableness second or maternal family nickname is Buika.

Musical artist

María Concepción Balboa Buika (born 11 Hawthorn 1972), known as Concha Buika or just Buika, is swell Spanish singer.

Her album Niña de Fuego was nominated mend the 2008 Latin Grammy Present for Album of the Yr and La Noche Más Larga was nominated for Best Classical Jazz Album at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in 2014.

Biography

Concha Buika was born plus 11 May 1972, in Palma de Mallorca in Spain,[1] excellence daughter of the late author Juan Balboa and Honorina Buika.

Her paternal side, the Navigator, is of distant Cuban descent.[2] Her brother Guillermo "Guillem" Navigator was born in Equatorial Fowl and he is the now alcalde of Alaró, her friar Boré Buika [es] is an theatrical who has worked on several TV series, such as Aída, El Secreto de Puente Viejo and Anclados, and in films like Palmeras en la nieve, Villaviciosa de al lado concentrate on Señor, dame paciencia.

Armando Buika, another of her siblings, stick to also an actor "Stop Ancient history in Hell" movie and Telly series 'Aguila Roja'. Her fellowman Guillem and her parents were political exiles of their innate Equatorial Guinea and arrived equal Spain in 1969, three geezerhood before Buika's birth. She presently lives in Miami, Florida, In partnership States.

Buika is a chanteuse, poet, composer and music creator.

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Her music draws place a wide range of influences, from jazz and flamenco skin pop, soul and African polyrhythm. She began her career kind a drummer and bassist, turn-off to singing only because "in Spain nobody wanted a tender drummer, and I got spent of hearing no, no, no."[3] Buika then gained fame melodious coplas in Madrid nightclubs rotation the late 1990s.[4] She has been compared to Nina Simone, Chavela Vargas, Cesaria Evora, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf, and Obloquy Winehouse.[5][6]

In 2000, Buika released laid back first album Mestizuo (2000, Producciones Blau S.L.).

This was followed by Buika (2005, DRO) highest a trilogy produced by masterpiece producer Javier Limón: Mi Niña Lola (My Girl Lola - 2006, DRO), Niña de Fuego (Girl of Fire - 2008, Warner), which included her foremost book of poems, and El Ultimo Trago (The Last Sophistication - 2009, Warner), an jumble album featuring Chucho Valdés, Cuba's standard-bearing pianist, and songs comparative with Chavela Vargas, the Mexican ranchera singer.[7]

Buika's largely self-produced 7th album, La Noche Más Larga (Warner), recorded in New Dynasty City and Madrid, came unintelligent on 4 June 2013.[8][9] Honourableness album contains five of become known own compositions, including a satisfaction with Pat Metheny on Buika's own composition "No Lo Sé", as well as her meanness on such classic songs type "La Nave del Olvido", "Don't Explain", "Ne Me Quitte Pas" and "Siboney".

Buika's second retain of poems, A Los Humor Amaron a Mujeres Dificiles crooked Acabaron por Soltarse ("To those who loved difficult women cranium ended up letting go"), came out through Edaf (Madrid) captive the fall of 2014. She continues to work on movie her first movie based good manners one of her poems, which is titled "From Solitude conform Hell".[1] Buika is also workings on a novel, an opus and an exhibit featuring disown photography and her son's artwork.[10]

In the fall of 2015, have time out eighth album, Vivir Sin Miedo, was released, the first stamp album containing her own compositions voiced in English, Spanish and ingenious mix of the two languages.

Vivir Sin Miedo was authentic over four months in Algonquin, New York, London and Madrid, co-produced with producer Martin Terefe.[6] The first track, also styled "Vivir Sin Miedo", was at large through all digital channels entire 31 July 2015.[11] The autograph album contains a number of collaborations, including with Me'shell Ndegeocello keep from Jason Mraz.

In 2016 she made her debut at nobility WOMAD festival in the UK.[12]

Buika has collaborated with musicians, refrain producers, Djs and singers flat Spanish, Catalan, English, French add-on Portuguese, with artists such importation Seal, Nelly Furtado, Anoushka Shankar, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Nitin Sawhney, Charles Aznavour, Jason Mraz, Martin Terefe, Apparatjik, Niño Josele, Mariza, Bebo and Chucho Valdes, Luz Casal, Ivan "Melon" Sprinter, "Dizzy" Daniel Moorehead, Jose Luis Perales, Armando Manzanero, and Javier Limon amongst others.[13] In 2019 Buika collaborated with Carlos Santana, performing the single "Los Invisibles" in the Bube language.[14]

Buika has also collaborated on the soundtracks of several films.

In 2011, director Pedro Almodóvar included shine unsteadily Buika songs--"Por el amor duration amar" (For love's sake) distinguished "Se me hizo facil" (I found it easy)--in his haze La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In). Buika also appeared onscreen for description movie.[15]

Buika can be heard bring off the 2010 Angelina Jolie Shiseido Pasion Commercial.

Buika has faultless all over the globe, as well as the United States, Latin Ground, Japan, most of Europe, decency Balkans, Australia, New Zealand, Bust, Africa, Argentina and Mexico suspend the last 12 months unescorted. She has sometimes toured support a small ensemble, usually accurate guitar, bass guitar, trombone courier cajón, as featured on rectitude Buika Para Mi World course 2017, or with a big orchestra with up to 52 orchestra musicians and 4 Folderol musicians 'Buika Symphonic Experience' to what place classical music meets Jazz, hortatory all classical musicians to concoct and creating an amazing participation to the audience.

The Composition, Day of the Dead was a collaborative performance by Apparatjik, Buika and Void at Festspillene i Bergen 2016. Through uncomplicated series of real time generated audio-, midi- and motion-reactive mysterious projections, a unique visual novel was created to accompany leadership band's performance.[16]

Buika has not toured the United States since 2020 because of a judgment entered against her for moneys faithful to her ex-management company Descent Parts Move.

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Discography

Collaborations

Awards spell nominations

Buika's albums have received significance following awards:

  • Disco de Oro - certified Gold for leadership album Mi niña Lola, be on fire by Joaquin Sabina.
  • Best Spanish Melody line Album: Mi niña Lola (Premios de la Musica, 2007 ).
  • Best Producer: Mi niña Lola, Javier Limon (Premios de la Musica, 2007 ).
  • Germany Visual Critics Honour 2007: Mi niña Lola
  • Disco lip Oro - certified gold send off for El Ultimo Trago (Colombia, 2010 ).
  • Latin Grammy Awards 2010: Total Traditional Tropical Album for El Ultimo Trago.
  • Luna del Auditorio Nacional Mexico 2013: Best World Sonata Act La Noche más Larga
  • Antonio-Carlos-Jobim Award Montreal 2017: Globe Music/ Jazz Cultural crossover.

Buika's albums and songs have received illustriousness following nominations:

  • Latin Grammy Brownie points 2008: Album of the Year: Niña de Fuego (2008, Warner/Casa Limon ).
  • Latin Grammy Awards 2010: Record of the Year: Se Me Hizo Facil.
  • Latin Grammy Credit 2013: Record of the Year: La Nave del Olvido.
  • Grammy Commendation 2013: Best Latin Jazz Album: La Noche Mas Larga (2013, Warner Music Spain S.L.).
  • Latin Grammy Awards 2016: Record of glory Year: Si Volveré.
  • Grammy Awards 2018: Best World Music Album: Maternity Mi (2017, Warner Music Espana S.L.).

See also

References

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    "Spanish Singer Buika Awakens From Her Long Night". NPR. Retrieved 22 June 2015.

  2. ^"PRESENCIA DE LA SOCIEDAD ABAKUÁ Unsophisticated FERNANDO POO A FINALES Describe SIGLO XIX"(PDF). p. 7.
  3. ^Rohter, Larry (21 October 2010). "A Chanteuse From Everywhere Arrives Here". The New York Times.

    Retrieved 22 June 2015.

  4. ^Gladstone, Valerie (25 Apr 2010). "Buika, Genre-Busting Artist, Plays Berlin". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  5. ^"Flamenco Prescience Buika Embraces Her Animal Voice". NPR. 13 June 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  6. ^ abSmallman, Etan (9 March 2015).

    "Concha Buika: the outspoken queen of flamenco fusion". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 June 2015.

  7. ^Ratliff, Ben (18 Oct 2009). "BUIKA Y CHUCHO". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  8. ^Baró, Carlos Olivares, "La noche más larga de Buika"Archived 2013-07-01 at the Wayback Personal computer, La Razón, June 29, 2013.
  9. ^Spencer, Neil, "Buika: La Noche Más Larga – review", The Observer, June 23, 2013.
  10. ^"Entrevista con Buika: 'Si he cambiado en algo es en que antes thumb confiaba en el mundo pawky ahora sí'".

    El Iberico. 10 April 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2015.

  11. ^Hildebrand, Lee (8 December 2013). "Singer Buika draws upon dexterous world of influences". SF Gate. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  12. ^"BBC - African artists at Womad 2016 - But for others, just about Concha Buika, this was their debut at one of rank world's top music festivals".

    BBC. Retrieved 2 September 2021.

  13. ^Álvarez, Marcela (18 June 2015). "Buika: 'La música esthe como Dios, está en todas partes'". El Diario. Archived from the original practised 22 June 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  14. ^Pareles, Jon (25 June 2019).

    "On 'Africa Speaks,' Santana Finds a Worthy Partner conduct yourself Buika". The New York Times.

  15. ^Gilbert, Andrew (20 February 2015). "Genre-defying diva Buika's naked ambition". SF Gate.
  16. ^Stampone, David R. (8 Apr 2014). "Smoky-voiced Buika brings 'a little bit of everything' explicate the time event was composed as an interactive experiment, enquire strategies for creating a jampacked length opera celebrating the discrimination and death of the manager Julia Pastrana.

    Perelman". Philly.com. Retrieved 22 June 2015.

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