Las Melli
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| las Melli | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Puerto Padre, Cuba |
| Genre(s) | Pop, Nu-Jazz, Fusion |
| Years active | 2004 – present |
| Label(s) | El Pescador de Estrellas |
| Website | Oficial Website; MySpace Profile; |
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[edit] About las Melli...
Angélica and Annelis Suárez (Puerto Padre, Cuba, 18th December 1979) are las Melli. Singers and Composers, they have sung together since they were 5 and have won, at the same time, first prizes in Children and Junior's Festivals. They have studied in the prestigious Music University of ISA (Instituto Superior de Arte de Cuba), where they graduated with a first class and maximum qualification in the Speciality of Lyric Singing in April 2002.
Angélica and Annelis are both similar not only in the physical appearance, they are twins, but in their vocal and performing talent. Not just their wide vocal range, their tuning and the colour of their voices, but also for the diversity of the genres that they have ventured to interpret with total success, and for the striking, fresh, casual but elegant image they portray. las Melli represents a very interesting example of a vocal format, fusing the traditional music of their native country (Cuba) and assuming the influences of the European music, jazz, bossa nova, R&B and adult pop.
Their recording career was launched in 2005 (with the project “Angelisa”) thanks to their first album “En Alma Misma”. Targeted to a jazz audience, this work featured important artists like Chucho Valdés. They took part in important international festivals, like XXI Jazz Fest of Madrid, Jazz Plaza in La Habana, Son Latinos, etc.
In 2007, las Melli signs with the famous producer Paco Ortega (owner of the new truly talent label El Pescador de Estrellas). Together, they venture in a surprising and curious project that becomes in the album “Reformas”, where they give new loudness, sounds and ambients for traditional Cuban songs, with bold and ingenious arrangements. With this release las Melli wants to reform various things in their career: name (formerly Angelisa), music style (formerly Jazz)…
las Melli proposes to the musical panorama, in their performances and compositions, the fusion of several styles, that not pretend remaining in a hermetic genre. Always looking for a constant experimentation, and betting for creative and ingenious ways.
[edit] Members
- Angélica Suárez - voice
- Annelis Suárez - voice
- Keyboards and Programations
- Electric Guitar
- Electric Bass
- Drums and Percusions
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- En Alma Misma - 2005 (Angelisa Project)
- Reformas - 2008
[edit] Singles
- Estás - 2005
