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In front of a stalls full of audience, Cyrille Aimée and Concha Buika, one after the other, filled the New Theater Circus with jazz and fusion music on Saturday, November 18, at the penultimate weekend of the Cartagena Jazz Festival Organizes the City of Cartagena.

With a French father and Dominican mother, Cyrille Aimée is one of the new voices that has illuminated the jazz scene of recent years with its naturalness, freshness and personality.

He started singing and playing the guitar at 14 after learning jazz thanks to the gypsies who visited the French town where he lived, attracted by his spirit and his music.

Now, with several international jazz awards behind him, he performed for the first time in Cartagena, showing his versatility and his self-confidence on stage.

Showing a Castilian, who said she had acquired throughout the last year on her tour of Spain, the jazz player was very close with the public.

Intercaló performances with the quartet that accompanies him and she alone, making use of the looper, which handles with ease.

With large doses of humor and showing their natural talent for music and dance, Aimée left a great taste in the mouth of the audience that came to listen to her.

After the break came the turn of the powerful voice of Concha Buika, with one of the most particular and recognizable styles of the Spanish music scene.

Buika returned to Cartagena with "Para mí", her latest work where she once again shows that she has plenty of talent and pedigree.

With the self-confidence on the stage that characterizes her, and her ease to combine soul, reggae or flamenco with a surprising naturalness, the singer aroused applause, laughter and spontaneous shouts of encouragement among the audience.

Buika shone on the stage, figuratively and literally, and left its mark on the memory of the audience with a great performance in which they could enjoy a whole range of styles in their purity and fused.

Pedro Almodóvar already highlighted it when, in 2011, he selected two of his songs "Por el amor de amar" and "Se me made fácil" for the soundtrack of "La piel que habito": "Seeing her attracted by so different musical genres and mixing them all with such grace and spontaneity, one can not help but think that there is a brighter future while one can witness the unlimited evolution of this infinite interpreter. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena