Music unites Azerbaijani and Cuban musicians [VIDEO]
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By Laman Ismayilova
Latin musician Yanssel Castellon and his band Los Amigos has surprised music lovers with a new video "En Casa" (At Home).
The project brought together Azerbaijan`s talented musicians Samira Rajabli (back vocal), Farid Agayev (piano), Sheida Alaskarova (flute), Rashid Aliyev (violin), Ismayil Zulfugarov (tar), Aykhan Ismayilli (drums) and Turan Isazade (trumpet).
Each musician recorded his performance at home. Then all the records were mounted in one video. The musical project was met with great interest.
Notably, Yanssel Castellon is a powerful Cuban artist, singer, bass player, composer, arranger and director.
He had a lot of chance with his father's band to
play older talented musicians and had so many experiences; Yanssel
was only 15 years old when he had his first stage experience
together with some of them and he was on the percussions.
He graduated (bass guitar) from Conservatory of
"Alejandro Garcia Caturla" (2002) in Havana, Cuba.
In 2008-2011, Yanssel Castellon worked as a
professionel musician; bassist, singer, musical director, composer
and arranger at "Centro Musical Adolfo Guzman Co." in Havana, Cuba.
He continued his music career in Turkey and
successfully represented his latin Cuba music in 2011-2018. Yanssel
Castellon is a founder of Latin Cuba Orchestra Yanssel & Los Amigos
(Turkey-Azerbaijan).
His father is a professional guitar player and he
was born into a very famous Cuban musician family who called Egües.
Richard Egües, nicknamed "la flauta mágica" (the
magic flute) successfully represented Cuba abroad.
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