Angela Maria

GUARDIAN REVIEW WOMAD festival highlights:From Peru (and France) came Radiokijada, with the Gotan Project's Christoph H Müller ­ joining in for a cool, percussive reworking of black Peruvian styles. This was only the second performance from a band that started out as a studio project, and they succeeded thanks to the soulful vocals of their new singer, Angela Maria Fontana, and Müller's restraint with the electronics READ ALL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jul/27/womad-festival -review
BIOGRAPHY

Angela Maria grew up in Lima at the coast side of Peru, at the end of the 80’s when the political situation in Peru was very instable because of the terrorism; she emigrated to Rome-Italy to learn more about the Italian culture and to study jazz vocals at the Saint Louis music school. Besides jazz she had the opportunity of learning more about the Italian music and performed with several bands through Italy, after seven years she departed to The Netherlands where she is actually fully dedicated to the Peruvian music giving especial attention to the rhythms of the coast.Angela Is currently working in her first album that will be released soon, the production is in hands of Angela & Tito Manrique, producer, musical director and first guitar of Afro Peruvian singer Eva Ayllon. In this Peruvian fusion production they will be using the complex rhythms of traditional instruments like the Peruvian cajon (wooden percussion box) and the elegant sound of the Peruvian vals.
Womad Charlton park 2009 with Radiokijada
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