Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita SUBA Trio Live At Catalina Jazz Club April 23 2023

Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita
SUBA Trio Featuring Percussionist Gustavo Ovalles
Sunday, April 23rd at 7:30pm
Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood (323) 466-2210
6725 West Sunset Blvd.
Hollywood California 90028
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Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita

SUBA Trio featuring Gustavo Ovalles

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​The Atlantic Ocean separates Cuba and Senegal, the respective birthplaces of piano virtuoso Omar Sosa and kora maestro Seckou Keita, a distance diminished by their shared ancestral connection to Africa. When the pair met in 2012, Seckou loved Omar for his musical spirituality, whilst Omar saw in Seckou a rare ability to collaborate but not lose his identity. Their debut album Transparent Water (2017) was hailed as ‘beautiful, rhapsodic… spiritual’ (Songlines) and ‘mesmerising, evocative and sophisticated’ (World Music Central).

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Sosa has released over 30 albums during an incredible career that has included nominations for seven GRAMMY or Latin GRAMMY awards; Keita is a multi-award winner, most recently as the prestigious BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician of the Year (2019). Recorded during lockdown and released in October 2021, Sosa and Keita’s second album SUBA is a hymn to hope, to a new dawn of compassion and real change in a post-pandemic world, a visceral reiteration of humanity’s perennial prayer for peace and unity. Joining Omar and Seckou in the studio and for live performances is the inimitable Venezuelan percussionist Gustavo Ovalles.