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Andrea Motis

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Andrea Motis (Barcelona, May 9, 1995) —singer, composer, trumpeter and saxophonist— is one of the most international artists to arise from the Spanish jazz scene. At the age of eleven she joined the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, and at fourteen she recorded her first album of standards, Joan Chamorro Presents Andrea Motis, which was followed, in 2012, by Feeling Good.

Following the repercussion of her first albums came her first worldwide release, Emotional Dance (2017) on Impulse! and, later, Do outro lado do azul (2019), on Verve, which made her the first Spanish artist to publish under these labels, both emblematic in the history of jazz.

Throughout her career, Andrea has collaborated with legendary artists such as Quincy Jones, Omara Portuondo, Milton Nascimento, Gil Goldstein, the WDR Big Band, Scott Hamilton or, in 2021, together with Yo-Yo Ma, with whom she performs as a duet “El cant dels ocells”, on the latest album by the remarkable cellist. He has performed concerts in some of the most representative jazz venues on the planet, such as the Tokyo Jazz Festival, Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, Jazz a Vienne, Festival de Jazz de Barcelona, Blue Note Japan, the National Music Auditorium in Madrid, or the Palau de la Música in Barcelona.

Andrea Motis Temblor Trio

After her different experiences with large formats, Andrea Motis explores a different sound with a new formation, a trio accompanied only by violin, mandolin and percussion. «I wanted a more intimate experience, perhaps more naked, less extroverted, in which to give space to my own compositions, with a message that I hope is also unique in terms of lyrics.» The trumpeter and singer from Barcelona is, in fact, inspired by the long tradition of Anglo-Saxon singer-songwriters, but also by author songs with Latin American roots. To do this, he has a trio with two instruments in which wood is the essential material, which for Motis is a very stimulating starting point: «To be on stage with the percussionist Zé Luis Nascimento and with the violinist Christoph Mallinger is to play with two musicians who multiply almost infinitely the resources of a trio, and the warmth of their instruments inspires me, above all, to adapt my sound to theirs.»
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