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Afro-Latin Musician Omar Sosa Brings His World Music To Attucks

     Omar Sosa is a musician extraordinaire, composer, arranger, pianist, percussionist, improvisatore, communicator. His Afro-Cuban-based mix of jazz and world music is broadly expressive—full of power and passion, subtlety and grace.
    Omar brings his musical genius to Hampton Roads for one show only at the Attucks Theatre in Norfolk on April 6, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
    Born and raised in Camaguey, Cuba, Omar Sosa studied percussion for many years in Havana. When he couldn't find his first-choice instrument—the marimba—he began to focus on the piano, finishing his formal studies in 1984. In the late '80's, having studied everything from Afro-Cuban folkloric traditions to European classical music, Omar began working with two Cuban pop singers and jump started the Cuban hip-hop scene in the early '90's.
Drawing from his African and Cuban cultural heritage, Omar Sosa creates a modern, urban music with a Latin jazz heart. In so doing, he touches the energy and storytelling of hip-hop, the free-spirited experimentation of jazz, the heartfelt emotion of an Afro-Ecuadorian choir, the sensuality of popular Cuban music, the hypnotic trance of Gnawa ritual. The result is an electrifying performance that is sure to please his Hampton Roads audience as it has audiences around the world.
    To purchase tickets, call ticketmaster at 757-671-8100 or visit ticketmaster.com.

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Posted March 26, 2008