Calle Real, a Swedish Timba band, was formed in 1999 by Patricio Sobrado. The band’s 12 members play a modern, tightly arranged style of Cuban music that swings with a totally unique sound.

Calle Real consists of:

Thomas Sebastian Eby – lead vocal
Karl Frid - guiro, backup vocal
Patricio Sobrado - tres, backup vocal
Gunnar Thullberg - piano & guitar
Christopher Peduru-Aratchi - keyboards
Andreas Unge – bass
Rickard Valdés – conga & timbales
Harry Wallin - drums & timbales
Nils Janson – trumpet
Jacek Onuszkiewicz – trumpet
Peter Fredriksson – trombone
Kristian Persson – trombone

Rickard Valdés, son of the legendary pianist, Bebo Valdes, has toured with his father’s band, Bebo Valdes & Cigalla. While Rickard is the only member of the band with Cuban roots, other members of the band have studied and played Cuban music while living in Cuba. That all the band members grew up in Sweden contributes to the unique sound of Calle Real.

The band’s international debut was in 2003, when they were invited to play at the Benny Moré festival in Cuba; a focal moment for the very best of Cuban Salsa and Timba. The event was captured in a documentary that was featured at the 2004 Gothenburg Film Festival and has played on Swedish television.

Timba is an Afro-Cuban music style that evolved out of Salsa. In the beginning of the 1990’s leading Cuban bands launched this new style, most prominently, NG LA Banda, but with major contributions from Charanga Habanera, Isaac Delgado, Paulito FG and Los Van Van.

Calle Real’s members compose most of the music they perform. While influenced by, and in dialog with the musical innovation of other musicians, Calle Real’s sound is identifiably unique.

Calle Real’s first album, Con Fuerza (2006), was nominated in 2006 by the Latin Grammy Awards for “Best Salsa Album of the Year.” The album was also awarded “Best Album” and “Best New Artist” in 2006 by the French FiestaCubana.net.

In the Spring of 2007, Calle Real was the house band on the popular Swedish talk show Stina!, hosted by Stina Lundberg Dabrowski, and frequently performed with famous Swedish artists.

Calle Real first gained international attention with their debut album and have earned fans in Europe, the U.S., South America, the Caribbean, and Australia. Musicians in those countries now even cover Calle Real songs. But it may be the French who most appreciate the band’s sound. In 2007 the band was nominated for best new artist and best Salsa album, with Thomas Eby nominated for best salsa vocalist.

In 2009 Calle Real released its highly anticipated second album, Me lo Gané. It was composed, recorded and produced in Stockholm, Sweden by the band.

Since 2003, Calle Real has been selling out concerts in Europe and across a globetrotting tour that included Ethiopia, Mali, Venezuela, Russia, Israel, Cuba, and Japan. The band’s music was even featured in the critically acclaimed HBO series, Dexter.

Salsa DJ Leon is of Surinamese descent and was born and raised in the Netherlands. He was introduced to salsa back in 2006 as he took his first salsa lesson. While dancing got less, his passion for salsa music slowly developed. He turned into a “Salsaholic” and started out DJing and collecting salsa music. Inspired by the Nuyorican-Style of Salsa from the 70ies, he believes it’s extremely important to play danceable and varied music. Since a while now he is very passionate about collecting rare vinyl records. He successfully demonstrated his love for vinyl on several salsa parties. Although he lives in Germany since 2008, he already filled many dance floors with his carefully selected salsa music and he has been invited to a number of festivals/congresses.

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schon früh kam Harry D mit der Musik in Kontakt, fand darin seine Leidenschaft und als Jugendlicher die Liebe zum Rhythmus.
1995 benutzte er seine Hände zum Scratchen und Cutten von Vinyls an den Turntables. In den Folgenden Jahren entstanden viele „Residencies“ in lokalen Clubs und Gastauftritte in Deutschland, Schweiz und Frankreich.
Harry D schaft eine Gradwanderung zwischen „Roots“ orientiertem Hip Hop, R&B, House und Club Classics so schaffte er schnell den Aufstieg zu einem etablierten Club DJ, bei denen sich Elemente verschiedener musikalischer Einflüsse in seinen druckvollen DJ-Sets widerspiegeln.
In den letzten Jahren entdeckte Harry D seine Leidenschaft für die elektronische Musik. Insbesondere House und Vocal House haben es ihm angetan.
Parallel dazu ist er auch gern gesehener Gast bei diversen Radiosendern, allen voran Big FM, Sunshine Live.

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Start collecting records more than 20 years ago, 10 years ago started radio show called Zeleno Sonce(green sun) on local radio station Student witch afterwords expend to successful funk party with the same name. Also co-founder of latin party called Guiso picante witch is total latin experience full with salsa dura, guaguanco, cumbia as well as some great latin funk. I'm also available for your mother's anniversary!
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