Valeria Matzner – Tamborilero (Lulaworld Records, 2023) Valeria Matzner’s latest musical venture, Tamborilero (drummer in Spanish) intertwines her Uruguayan roots with a splash of contemporary…
There are significant differences between adjacent South American countries Brazil and Uruguay. Size is the most readily obvious, and the degree of influence that results…
Candombe originated in Uruguay between the 18th and 19th century, developed by Africans and their descendants that were taken to South America through the slave…
Known to his many friends and fans simply as ‘Rada,’ Rubén Omár Rada Silva was born July 17, 1943 was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. As…
Jose Luis Perez, a master candombe drummer, began to study this unique African rooted drumming style at the age of 1 in Montevideo Uruguay where…
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Hugo Fattoruso began his musical career as a prodigious and somewhat reluctant piano student at the age of four. By the…
I‘ve long asserted that Latin music was the first “world” music to make its way into the mainstream. Arguable though that may be, there’s no…