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Begins the Cartagena Jazz Festival, organized by the City of Cartagena, on Thursday, November 3 with the American singer Lizz Wright on stage at the Auditorium The Batel.
Georgia singer comes to present his latest album Dreamer and surronder, considered by critics as one of the best jazz albums sung in recent decades.
The concert will be at 21:30 pm.
Tickets cost 18 euros.
Lizz Wright (Georgia, United States, 1980) is today one of the brightest voices in contemporary jazz.
He surprised the audience of Chicago, one of the many commemorative festivals Billie Holiday, when she was a teenager.
A young unknown who stole tears recalling the great interpreter.
Since then, his life has changed.
As the daughter of a preacher, his first musical school was the church of his father.
Years later, the fichaba the legendary Verve seal.
The singer surprised with his participation in the 2002 album by pianist Joe Sample, and a year later published Salt, his first job that went to number two of the jazz charts.
His deep voice, the passion that puts him singing and a modern approach to jazz, soon became a benchmark.
Two years after its debut and reached the top of the charts with their second album Dreaming wide awake.
"For me, singing is as natural as life, I prefer to talk, it gives me much better," he claimed in an interview.
Since then it has been gaining popularity with their albums which better.
Among them are Barack Obama this summer that included one of the tracks on the album that comes to introduce Cartagena Dreamer and surronder in the playlist in Spotify made this summer, and has been successful reproductions.
O Prince, a personal friend of Lizz Wright.
The recreation of the last hours of brilliant artist said that one of his last appearances was at the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis, where he played the singer.
It comes back to Cartagena, with its fifth album, produced by the ubiquitous Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Madeleine Peyroux, Melody Gardot, Tracy Chapman ...) Another great job for someone who has given some of the best albums of jazz sung in decades .
Tickets for the concert are Lizz Wright.
Tickets can be purchased at the ticket office of Nuevo Teatro Circo and Auditorio El Batel.
Also at the festival website www.jazzcartagena.com
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