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yoel soto's latin-jazz projectgenre country origin biography CUBA 1989 - 1996 Yoel Soto started studying classical guitar at the age of 11. In 1995 he participated, playing electric bass, in the Festival Jazz Plaza de La Habana with Bobby Carcassés, one of the most important jazz representatives of the island. In 1996 he obtained his diploma of electric bass from the National School of Art and the same year, before leaving for Italy where he stayed for several years, he collaborated with known Cuban bands like Bamboleo and Diákara. Italia 1996 - 2004 In Italy, with the Havana Mambo orchestra, he participated in various festivals like Umbria Jazz, San Remo Festival and in many others all over Europe, sharing the stage with some of the biggest figures of Latin music like Celia Cruz, Tito Gomez, Oscar D’ Leon, Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, Eddie Palmieri, Pochi y La Cocoband, Jossie Esteban y La Patrulla 15, Sergio Vargas, Issac Delgado, Manolito y su Trabuco etc... In 2002 he was part of a jazz trio that toured many Universities in north Italy. From 2001 to 2003 he was also part of Tribá (for many years considered as one of the most famous multiethnic music bands in Italy), participating in some of the most important Italian TV shows like Buona Domenica (Canale 5), Domenica In (Rai 1), Il Volo (La7), and in Italian festivals like Arezzo Wave and Heineken Jammin. In the same period he was also part of the Diego Borotti´s jazz quartet (prolific Italian saxophonist) and of the project of Bruno Genero, pioneer in the late eighties of World Music in Italy and named as the best non-African ¨djembefolᨠon the evening of the Grand Masters of Percussion at the First International Biennial in Conakry, Guinea (May 1999). Greece 2004 - 2011 Yoel Soto is currenty living in Greece where for three years he was the director of the Latin All Stars Salsa Orchestra, the biggest salsa event in Greece, which has played with musicians of international fame like Alfredo de la Fe, Jimmy Bosch, Orlando Watussi, Luisito Rosario, Larry Harlow, and singers of the Spanish Harlem Orchestra (2005 Latin Grammy winner and 2007 Latin Grammy nomination) Ray de la Paz, Herman Olivera, Frankie Vazquez and Marco Bermudez; with the same orchestra he recorded and produced an album not yet released, with all the compositions and arrangements by himself. Other relevant participations are his performances with Angel Parra (important song-writer from Chile, son of the unforgettable Violeta Parra), the Lou Bega orchestra (European tour 2007), Tony Lakatos and Global Vision. His song “La Tengo Amarrá” was included in a film soundtrack of Antonis Kafetzopoulos “H gynaika einai poly kakos anthropos” (The woman is a very bad person). With his salsa project ¨La Cucaracha¨ he has performed at an international stage in different countries like Greece, Germany, Albania and Cyprus, and in many Latin music clubs and festivals all around Greece. With his Latin Jazz Project he has played in several important jazz stages in Italy and Greece and he has recorded his first personal album “Waking Up” in Turin (Italy); the album was released by DDE Records, a record company based in UK. DISCOGRAPHY:
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Yoel Soto started studying classical guitar at the age of 11. In 1995 he participated, playing electric bass, in the Festival Jazz Plaza de La Habana with Bobby Carcassés, one of the most important jazz representatives of the island. In 1996 he obtained his diploma of electric bass from the National School of Art and the same year, before leaving for Italy where he stayed for several years, he collaborated with known Cuban bands like Bamboleo and Diákara. Italia 1996 - 2004 In Italy, with the Havana Mambo orchestra, he participated in various festivals like Umbria Jazz, San Remo Festival and in many others all over Europe, sharing the stage with some of the biggest figures of Latin music like Celia Cruz, Tito Gomez, Oscar D’ Leon, Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, Eddie Palmieri, Pochi y La Cocoband, Jossie Esteban y La Patrulla 15, Sergio Vargas, Issac Delgado, Manolito y su Trabuco etc... In 2002 he was part of a jazz trio that toured many Universities in north Italy. From 2001 to 2003 he was also part of Tribá (for many years considered as one of the most famous multiethnic music bands in Italy), participating in some of the most important Italian TV shows like Buona Domenica (Canale 5), Domenica In (Rai 1), Il Volo (La7), and in Italian festivals like Arezzo Wave and Heineken Jammin. In the same period he was also part of the Diego Borotti´s jazz quartet (prolific Italian saxophonist) and of the project of Bruno Genero, pioneer in the late eighties of World Music in Italy and named as the best non-African ¨djembefolᨠon the evening of the Grand Masters of Percussion at the First International Biennial in Conakry, Guinea (May 1999). Greece 2004 - 2011 Yoel Soto is currenty living in Greece where for three years he was the director of the Latin All Stars Salsa Orchestra, the biggest salsa event in Greece, which has played with musicians of international fame like Alfredo de la Fe, Jimmy Bosch, Orlando Watussi, Luisito Rosario, Larry Harlow, and singers of the Spanish Harlem Orchestra (2005 Latin Grammy winner and 2007 Latin Grammy nomination) Ray de la Paz, Herman Olivera, Frankie Vazquez and Marco Bermudez; with the same orchestra he recorded and produced an album not yet released, with all the compositions and arrangements by himself. Other relevant participations are his performances with Angel Parra (important song-writer from Chile, son of the unforgettable Violeta Parra), the Lou Bega orchestra (European tour 2007), Tony Lakatos and Global Vision. His song “La Tengo Amarrá” was included in a film soundtrack of Antonis Kafetzopoulos “H gynaika einai poly kakos anthropos” (The woman is a very bad person). With his salsa project ¨La Cucaracha¨ he has performed at an international stage in different countries like Greece, Germany, Albania and Cyprus, and in many Latin music clubs and festivals all around Greece. With his Latin Jazz Project he has played in several important jazz stages in Italy and Greece and he has recorded his first personal album “Waking Up” in Turin (Italy); the album was released by DDE Records, a record company based in UK. DISCOGRAPHY:
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