What do salsa, flamenco and reggae have in common? Fundamentally, they are genuine, unadulterated musical languages, all of them expressions of the feelings of communities and peoples traditionally forgotten by those in power. This is what the legendary Gilberto Santa Rosa, emblem of salsa, and the exceptional cast of flamenco musicians gathered to pay homage in their own way to the music of the patriarch of reggae, Bob Marley, share.
Veteran is a degree for Gilberto Santa Rosa, one of the world's great names in salsa and one of the most influential musicians in the genre, although his production also extends to boleros and romantic ballads. The Puerto Rican musician has sold more than thirty million records of his more than thirty albums released in the last fifty years, since his debut in 1973. Songs such as "El último adiós", "Conciencia", "Conteo regresivo", "Que alguien me diga" or "Vivir sin ella" are classics celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, and all of them are great calling cards to get into the vast work of this two-time Grammy Award winner.
Israel Súarez "El Piraña" is behind the project "Flamencos salute Bob Marley", premiered last year at the Rototom festival in Benicàssim with a resounding public success. It is a dream cast of musicians, formed by guitarist Josemi Carmona, pianist Álex Conde, singer Alana Sinkey, singer Noemí Humanes, bassist Josué Ronkío and percussionist Juan Carmona Jr, with the collaboration of Kiki Morente, who fuse reggae with cante jondo, in a daring fusion of sounds and cultures that has no precedent.
