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Bonus Track - LA SANDUNGUITA

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Let it Out

As a pianist Diego Amador is known as “The Gypsy Ray Charles”, because of the carefree and vigorous spirit with which he plays the piano.  He has become famous as a Flamenco singer-songwriter through a broad progression of flamenco styles and keys. That combination of exceptional musician and interpreter has been his passport to collaborating with the great stars of flamenco, such as Tomatito, Camarón de la Isla, Diego El Cigala, and Remedios Amaya just to name a few.  

At age nineteen, the opportunity arose for his first recording titled Anticipo Flamenco, a glimpse into what would be a new door opening for the new flamenco piano of the time.  This work was produced by Ricardo Pachón, the most influential producer of the genre.  Despite his young age, Diego’s undeniable passion for jazz and the piano asserted itself in this project. 

In El aire de lo puro and Piano Jondo, he emerged on the scene with his unique style of playing the piano as though it were a guitar, a style that has become his hallmark and has cemented his reputation as a great master of flamenco piano. 

Thanks to his powerful flamenco voice, Amador gained fame with his versatile vocalization, awakening in his audience an array of emotions where the fierce and the magical blend in perfect harmony.  That free and fascinating style was embodied in his album Rio de los Canasteros, for which he won his first nomination to the Latin Grammy Awards 2008 in the “Best Flamenco Album” category. This would be followed by his recording Live in Paris / Flamenco Jazz Tribute (2012); his tribute to the great masters who have inspired him.  By 2013, when he recorded his sixth album, Scherzo Flamenco, the international press was already calling him “one of the most brilliant flamenco pianists of all times.”  

Between one recording and another, he always found time to share the stage with important musical icons, such as Chick Corea, jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, the legendary double bass player Charlie Haden, as well as Abraham Laboriel and Alex Acuña, among many others.

The year 2016, marked the beginning of a new musical phase in Diego’s artistic career.  Along the side of renowned Cuban musician, arranger Alain Perez he explored the world of Salsa and Latin Rhythms and it incentivized his return to the studio.  Miami was the inspiration to produce this, his most biographic record yet:  Soy de las 3,000.  He arrived in the company of two of the masters of music, his fellow countryman Alejandro Sanz and the “Pharaoh of Salsa,” Oscar De León.

Accompanied by De León, Diego blends his flamenco voice with salsa rhythms to produce the first single of his album called, La Sandunguita.  Meanwhile with Sanz he recorded Regálame la silla donde te esperé, a musical flare where two of the most complete voices of the Hispanic world draw a pentagram in which the new flamenco glows in all its splendor. 

The album has two recordings authored by him: Soy de las 3,000, which is a tribute to his family and his childhood memories, and Me Trae el Aire, two flamenco rumbas with the perfect stamp of Amador. The CD also includes El Son de la madrugada; an emotionally charged song he recorded two decades earlier with the popular Cuban artist Omara Portuondo, and which on this occasion Diego renews with a fabulous solo interpretation. 

In El Alma al Aire y Dos Gardenias, what comes to the fore is how the boundaries among various musical genres disappear to give way to a new musical horizon where good music and the purest feeling passionately embrace.    

With a career spanning more than twenty years and these nine new recordings on his new album, Diego Amador consolidates himself as one of the greatest interpreters of the new flamenco and the perennial flamenco. Only someone with his interpretative spirit – in voice and hands – achieves what others believed to be impossible: the melding of the spontaneous and the wild to reach the heart, from the very first note.

Bonus Track - LA SANDUNGUITA

Diego Amador

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