Pamela Rodriguez
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Pamela Rodriguez is a Latin Grammy Nominated artist, who is exploring the cross-cultural musical languages within her home city Lima, Peru. She records with the award winning and three time Grammy Nominee producer Greg Landau
and together work to find a modern homogenous sound and a connecting thread to her music that contains a wide range of styles such as landó
, festejo
, Peruvian waltz, zamacueca
, the Peruvian jungle’s Cumbia, indie rock and reggae.
Her first album Peru Blue explored the new arrangements of Peruvian classics like Augusto Polo Campos´ "Cuando llora mi guitarra" and Chabuca Granda's "Cardo o Ceniza", next to her own compositions. Rodriguez is a middle class, European-Peruvian based in the capital city, which has brought a discussion within Peru of appropriation (and profiting) by an outsider of the coastal African-Peruvian tradition. Being a Peruvian folk composer is quite an achievement since most singers and musicians in the Afro-Peruvian genre tend to sing the same songs from the Afro-Peruvian songbook. "Peru Blue" was also controversial since she decided to sing a Jazz Ballad written by her ("silent tears") in a Peruvian folk production scheme.
She has recently released a new album "en la orilla". In this new work she explored more deeply into her Peruvian roots, and sets in stone a style of her own. She writes all of the songs, except the landó version of Billie Holidays “Don’t explain”. The melodies are very strong and also her lyrics that speak about women identity in the new Lima, politics and intimate poetry.
Greg Landau
Greg Landau is a San Francisco-based music and video producer, and an instructor of music and Latin American Studies focused on the social movements that produced revolutionary music and art. He is a five-time Grammy nominee who has produced over 40 CDs and numerous film scores including serving as...
and together work to find a modern homogenous sound and a connecting thread to her music that contains a wide range of styles such as landó
Lando
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, festejo
Festejo
Festejo is a festive form of Peruvian music. It can be seen as a celebration of Perú's independence and the emancipation of slaves, or as an attempt to reinvent diaspora African music without reference to slavery. Composers of all races have contributed to the development of festejo repertoire...
, Peruvian waltz, zamacueca
Zamacueca
The Zamacueca is an ancient colonial dance that originated in the Viceroyalty of Peru, taking its roots from African, Spanish, and Andean rhythms...
, the Peruvian jungle’s Cumbia, indie rock and reggae.
Her first album Peru Blue explored the new arrangements of Peruvian classics like Augusto Polo Campos´ "Cuando llora mi guitarra" and Chabuca Granda's "Cardo o Ceniza", next to her own compositions. Rodriguez is a middle class, European-Peruvian based in the capital city, which has brought a discussion within Peru of appropriation (and profiting) by an outsider of the coastal African-Peruvian tradition. Being a Peruvian folk composer is quite an achievement since most singers and musicians in the Afro-Peruvian genre tend to sing the same songs from the Afro-Peruvian songbook. "Peru Blue" was also controversial since she decided to sing a Jazz Ballad written by her ("silent tears") in a Peruvian folk production scheme.
She has recently released a new album "en la orilla". In this new work she explored more deeply into her Peruvian roots, and sets in stone a style of her own. She writes all of the songs, except the landó version of Billie Holidays “Don’t explain”. The melodies are very strong and also her lyrics that speak about women identity in the new Lima, politics and intimate poetry.