Yilian Cañizares

Yilian Cañizares

Yilian Cañizares at the Marseille Jazz festival des 5 continents 2015
Background information
Origin Havana, Cuba,
Genres jazz, World music, Music of Cuba
Occupation(s) musician/composer
Instruments violin,
Years active 2009—present
Labels Naïve Records
Website yiliancanizares.com

Yilian Cañizares is a Swiss-Cuban musician who has lived in Switzerland since 2000.[1]

Biography

Yilian Cañizares was born in Havana, Cuba, and studied violin there, in the strictest Russian tradition.[2] In 1997, she moved to Venezuela, in order to pursue her studies. Three years later, she moved again, to Switzerland, in order to complete her studies at the Fribourg/Freiburg| conservatory.[3] She originally wanted to become a classical musician.[1] As she was in Switzerland, she became interested in Jazz and decided to sing.[1] She has remained in Switzerland and has acquired the citizenship.[4] · [5] She found her own style after having discovered the French jazz violin player Stéphane Grappelli. She decided to use elements of his style with Cuban music.[6] At the end of her studies, she started the band Ochumare, or “rainbow” in Yoruba language,[2] with David Britto (Double Bass) and Cyril Regamey (drums and percussions). She continued her career under her own name.[5] She has been considered the discovery of the year 2013 by the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur [7] and the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles selected her album Invocación in the ten 2015 albums from South America not to be missed.[8] She teaches violin and jazz improvisation at the Ecole de jazz et des musiques actuelles in Lausanne.[4]

Style

Her style reflects her various influences with shades of jazz, classical music and cuban music, with a lot of space left for improvisation. [9] · [3] · [4] The French magazine Les Inrockuptibles speaks of a jazz instrumentation mixed with Yoruba ritual percussions.[8] She sings in Spanish, Yoruba and French. One of her hallmarks is that she plays violin and sings at the same time.[10][1][11]

Discography

Ochumare Quartet

Yilian Cañizares

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Demandez le programme" (video). TV5, Program 64 Minutes. 8 March 2015. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Yilian Cañizares, de Bach à la santería". Radio France Internationale. 10 February 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Yilian Cañizares, Havanaise du monde". Le Courrier. 3 April 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 "La Suisse, une autre île nourricière". Le Temps. 5 April 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Yilian Cañizares, par-delà les océans et les traditions". Le Nouvelliste. 7 March 2013.
  6. ↑ "Die Sängerin und Geigerin Yilian Cañizares in Moods". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 16 September 2013. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  7. ↑ "Violon magique – la chanterelle du latin jazz". Le Nouvel Observateur. 30 January 2014.
  8. 1 2 "Dix albums incontournables d’Amérique du Sud". Les Inrockuptibles. 11 April 2015. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  9. ↑ "Moncalieri Jazz festival: dallo swing italiano al jazz cubano". La Stampa. 14 November 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  10. ↑ "Yilian Cañizares – Havanna liegt im Waatland". Radio SRF 2 Kultur. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  11. ↑ "Le 12:15". Télévision suisse romande. 3 May 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2015.

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