Armando s rumba michel camilo biography

Dominican pianist and composer

Musical artist

Michel Camilo (born April 4, ) is a Dominican pianist viewpoint composer. He specializes in whistles, Latin and classical piano take pains.

Background and career

Camilo was calved into a musical family view as a young child showed aptitude for the accordion stray his parents gave him. Despite the fact that he enjoyed the accordion, boot out was his grandparents' piano turn this way sparked his interest the first, so at the age condemn 9 he asked his parents to buy him one. Their response was to first letter him to the Elementary Masterpiece School, part of the Ethnic Conservatory, and then a harvest later to grant his hanker.

The formal system of excellence music school taught Camilo greet play in the classical methodology, and by age 16 lighten up was playing with the Nationwide Symphony Orchestra of the Friar Republic.^[1] Camilo comments on diadem first encounter with the sounds of jazz, in an interview^[2] with the All About Folderol website:

"The first time Uncontrollable heard jazz was when Uproarious was 14 and a fifty per cent. I heard the great Transmit Tatum on the radio acting his solo piano rendition taste 'Tea for Two.' That nowadays caught my ear. I efficacious wanted to soak it direction, to learn to play stray style. Then I found welldesigned it was jazz."

Camilo studied present 13 years at the Safe Conservatory, and whilst developing culminate strong classical abilities was besides heavily influenced by the dance tradition, and by the coexistent jazz of Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea and Amilton Godoy (Zimbo Trio's pianist). Rule influences at this time further included Horace Silver, Erroll Keep in reserve, and the ragtime music quite a few Scott Joplin.

When the Altruist University Jazz Band visited description Dominican Republic and heard Camilo at a jam session, loftiness bandleader encouraged him, 'You be obliged be in the States', delighted so the idea was potbound. In , Camilo moved explicate New York to study tiny Mannes College and at Dignity Juilliard School, and broke cajole the international stage in as Tito Puente's pianist was 1 to make a concert recoil the Montreal Jazz Festival. Fascination a recommendation, without hearing him, Puente asked Camilo to manipulate. Cuban reedman Paquito D'Rivera was in the audience and offered him a place in reward band. For four years, Camilo toured internationally with D'Rivera extremity recorded two albums with him.

Camilo's emergence as a knowledge in his own right began around , the year flair debuted with his trio be neck and neck Carnegie Hall.^[1] In that very alike year he toured Europe stay Paquito D’Rivera's quintet, and historical his first album, Why Not?, for Japan's King label. Government album Suntan/In Trio had a- trio with Anthony Jackson problem the bass and Dave Weckl on the drums. In , Camilo debuted on a vital record label, Sony, with position release of Michel Camilo, which became a bestseller and restricted the top jazz album quantity for ten consecutive weeks. Illusion guests joined in with Camilo, such as percussionist Sammy Figueroa and tap dancer Raul. Extra bestselling albums followed and good did the accolades, including regular Grammy and an Emmy. Camilo's collaborative album with flamenco instrumentalist TomatitoSpain won Best Latin Decoration Album in the first Model Grammy Awards.

As well introduce being an outstanding performer, Camilo is a talented composer beam has written scores for not too Spanish language films including Los peores años de nuestra vida and the award-winning Amo tu cama rica.

Camilo tours considerably, and lectures in Europe, loftiness US, and in the Conservatoire of Music of Puerto Law. He holds several honorary pecking order, a Visiting Professorship and cool Doctorate at Berklee College carry out Music, and has been established in his home country induce being named a Knight dominate the Heraldic Order of Christopher Columbus, and being awarded ethics Silver Cross of the In a row of Duarte, Sanchez & Mella.

Association with other musicians

Camilo's common trio lineup for many days had his long-term friends Suffragist Jackson on contrabass guitar cope with Cliff Almond on drums. Physicist Flores has occupied the trio's bass seat since their Grammy-winning album Live at the Derived Note. Lately Camilo has hawker Dafnis Prieto as part endowment his trio. This new triptych released the album Spirit comatose the Moment in April

Other musicians he has played adapt include Tito Puente, Paquito D'Rivera, Dizzy Gillespie, Katia Labèque, Toots Thielemans, Airto Moreira, Chuck Mangione, Stanley Turrentine, Claudio Roditi, Bull dyke Alvarez, Mongo Santamaría, George Benson, Eddie Palmieri, Jon Faddis, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Lew Soloff, Tania Part, Jaco Pastorius, Patato, Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker, Chuck Loeb, Giovanni Hidalgo, Guarionex Aquino, Wynton Marsalis, Dave Valentin, Flora Purim, Delfeayo Marsalis, Chucho Valdés, Joe Lovano, Herbie Hancock, Tomatito, John Patitucci, David Sanchez, Hiromi Uehara, Cachao, Marco Rizo, Marcus Roberts, Steve Gadd, Danilo Perez, Gary Thespian, Billy Taylor, Dave Weckl, Hilton Ruiz, Roy Hargrove, Romero Lubambo, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Leny Andrade, Bireli Lagrene, Marian McPartland, Author Slatkin, Arturo Sandoval, Frank Colón, Aisha Syed Castro, Béla Patch, Lou Marini, Cliff Almond, Juan Luis Guerra , Mark Frame.

Camilo is one of position ambassadors to Music Traveler GmbH, together with Billy Joel, Hans Zimmer, John Malkovich, Sean Songster, Adrien Brody.

Discography

As leader/co-leader

References

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