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Sol y Canto

Led by Puerto Rican/Argentine singer/bongo player, Rosi Amador & New Mexican guitarist Brian Amador, Sol y Canto (sun and song) has brought audiences to their feet from the Kennedy Center and White House to the California World Music Festival, Boston’s Symphony Hall Puerto Rico’s Museo de Arte as well as the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Newport Folk Festival. Sol y Canto features Rosi Amador's crystalline voice and Brian Amador's lush Spanish guitar accompanied by outstanding Latin musicians from Uruguay, Perú, Panamá and Argentina. Their lyrics address social and global aspirations alongside matters of the heart.

Rosi and Brian Amador were two of the founding members of the renowned Latin Boston-based Nueva Canción (New Song) band, Flor de Caña (1984 - 1994). They perform regularly as a duo, trio, and sextet. The group has established a national reputation for its unique interpretations of latin music, and for making this music accessible to non-Spanish and Latinos alike, and for singing socially-charged lyrics alongside songs featuring the breathtaking poetry of other Latino contemporary songwriters alongside their original material.

With its rich, natural harmonies, Sol y Canto's sound is built upon a framework of Brian's warm, versatile Spanish guitar and Rosi's expressive, crystalline voice. Brian's playing shows how the nylon-string guitar, often abandoned in contemporary popular Latin music, has provided a backbone of harmony, melody and percussive rhythms from the Flamenco styles brought by the Spanish settlers to the sones of the Trio Matamoros, and how vibrantly relevant that instrument is to the music of today. Rosi's singing has been described by the Boston Globe as "like clean spring water: it's smooth, it's clear, and somehow, you come to believe that it's necessary for life."

Their debut recording, Sancocho, on Rounder Records, was chosen by Scott Alarik of the Boston Globe as one of the ten best recordings of 1994; Alarik describes Sol y Canto as: "Boston’s sublime ambassadors of the Pan-Latin tradition."

Sendero del Sol, their 1996 Rounder release, was produced by renowned Panamanian jazz pianist Danilo Pérez, and was chosen as "one of the best of the year" by Hispanic Magazine. It includes the participation of Danilo and Puerto Rican jazz saxophonist David Sánchez.

Sol y Canto’s fall 1999 album, En Todo Momento, features a more acoustic approach to their music than their last two Rounder Records CD’s, showcasing rich harmony vocals and a more intimate musical ensemble featuring three singer/instrumentalists: Rosi and Brian Amador, joined by Alan del Castillo.

In 2001 FleetBoston Celebrity Series commissioned Sol y Canto Musical Director, Brian Amador, to compose a latin orchestral suite. The suite, "Prisma de amores" debuted September 2001 at the historic Sanders Theater in Cambridge. Sol y Canto now tours the suite nationally with symphony and chamber orchestras and also performs in smaller venues with string quartets. On February 28, 2004 Sol y Canto will perform with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra at Springfield Symphony Hall, Springfield, MA.

Sol y Canto's newest (2003) release, "Twice as Many Friends/El Doble de Amigos" is on Rounder Records and features celebratory bilingual children's songs, both traditional and contemporary originals , to dance to and learn by. Fun for kids and adults alike guaranteed! The ensemble asks presenters to identify a local community children's choir to sing several of the songs from the CD at the performing arts center with Sol y Canto.

"Best of Boston for Latin rhythms"
Boston Magazine, 1996

"Outstanding Latin Act,"
Boston Music Awards, 1995

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To book Sol y Canto for your event just call us at (617) 492-1515, or use our online contact form.