Guitars:Edmundo Vargas, Felix Casaverde, Hernan Romero, Carlos Hayre, Sergio Valdeos, José Luna.
Peruvian Cajon: José Luna, Gigio Parodi, Eusebio Sirio "Pititi", Juan Medrano "Cotito"
Afro Peruvian percussion: Gigio Parodi
Bass: Oscar Stagnaro, David Pinto, Rubén Rodríguez, Edmundo Vargas.
Piano: Carlos Valdivia
Spoons:Olga Milla
Influences
Most of them songwriters, Creole and Afro Peruvian bass player Vicente Vásquez, singer songwriter Chabuca Granda, tondero dancer from Piura Rafael Sanchez Cerro, Jazz songstress Rachel Farrell, Mexican soulful voice Eugenia León, pionner Rosa Elvira Figueroa, late Mexican composer Marcial Alejandro, Argentinean songwriter Eladia Blasquez, well rounded cellist Yo Yo Ma, Astor Piazzola. Guitar, bass and researcher Carlos Hayre, author, researcher and radio producer and host Alicia Maguiña, Peruvian guitarist Felix Casaverde, guitar Eric Clapton, Ellis Regina from Brazil, Tom Jobim, Vinicious De Morais, Grammy winner and afable Paquito de Rivera....and the world at large.
Sounds Like
Passion, poetry, fussion, filing, fado, trova, sensual riffs, classical guitars, romance, latina, criollo, Latin jazz, Coastal Peruvian percussion, rhythm, sound documents ...
Since her first album Olga has chosen to record with different musicians and not with one band which gives to the world music fan a broader spectrum of styles and history. It has became one of her trademarks. Another thing is that Olga focuses on songwriting and not much on performing... to everyone exasperation. But she is bringing fresh lyrics to the Latino songbook in the US and that is quite an accomplishment.To convoke is another of her trademarks. Because of her we have one of the few collaborations of Afro Peruvian master Carlos Hayre and charango player Jaime Guardia, the cherished Andean maestro from Ayacucho.
Available worldwide
Itunes http://www.apple.com/search/ipoditunes/?q=olga+milla, amazon.com. in Peru Phantom http://phantom.com.pe/busqueda.php?q=olga+milla&Submit=Buscar
"Being independent and an inmigrant is a very lonely road and resources are scarce, more so when you start from scratch and your music is not mainstream.... When you are an inmigrant there is this great, interesting tension between standards and new works,...I feel my contributions reflect that tension.
I remember the US music shelves 90's in the States: Peruvian painfully meant almost only Andean, I was very naive but true when I kept wondering: Where is our repertoire from the Coast?... Where is my city within the skycrapers of NYC? ... . slowly but surely the Peruvian community paved the way for our performers to visit the US market and American producers took a harder look to what was going on in Perú... So slowly I started really focus on writing and my hope is that my songs reach established and new voices ... I feel that voices and musicians, enginners and hardware, we are all strokes of color as in a painting"
Digital Distributor The Orchard.
Born in Lima in 1956, the singer songwriter Olga Milla is truly devoted to the preservation of her native city’s musica criolla (Creole music) and other Afro Hispanic coastal forms of Peru. She was deeply influenced, at an early age by such Peruvian music legends as the patriarchal guitarist Vicente Vasquez composer Paco Pinilla and Peru’s greatest singer songwriter, Isabel Granda Larco (better known as Chabuca Granda). When Cesar Miró (the composer of Todos Vuelven, standard that was recorded by Ruben Blades) wrote about Olga’s work, he referred to her as the voice of nostalgia being away from the homeland. Olga recently launched a tribute "400 Years 400 Souls" as part of the Dallas International Book Fair to celebrate 400 years of "Los Comentarios Reales", a staple in Latin American Literature and proposed his author Inca Garcilaso de la Vega as a role model for immigrant population.
Olga’s music career was initiated around 1976, when she joined forces with other young vocalists, under the guidance of the Tondero (Afro-Andean-Hispanic genre from Peru’s northern coastal region) master Rafael Sánchez Cerro, to record the successful LP “El Carbón y sus amigos” for the Iempsa label. This album made quite a significant impact in Peru and such remote locations as France and Switzerland, long before the term “world music” was coined.
By the mid 1990s, after spending a few years in Spain, Olga and her guitar-playing spouse Edmundo Vargas, moved to the USA and had lived in New Jersey and Texas. Endowed with an enchanting and tender voice and a resilience to quietly introduce cherished but unkown repertoire to new audiences as an independent, she has published a couple of groundbreaking albums with heartfelt originals: "CARICIA" (1996) and "REPERCUSION:BALADAS AFROPERUANAS Y OTRAS AGITACIONES" (2005) both of whom were enriched with the presence of extremely gifted sidemen and special guests, including but not limited to the innovative guitarist Carlos Hayre (known for his pioneering work with Nicomedes Santa Cruz), the distinguished professor Oscar Stagnaro (New England’s número uno Latin jazz bassist), the bewitching charango (Andean string instrument) expert Jaime Guardia, and an unforgettable triumvirate of Afro Peruvian icons: Carlos Soto de la Colina (better known as “Caitro”), Eusebio Sirio (Pititi) and the one and only “Chocolate”Algendones, among others. At the time when Perú had only a few albums in the American market she forsaw the need to document different styles under one album to support Peruvian's diversity.
Olga’s far reaching reverberation of Afro-Peruvian, Mestizo sentimental songs and other exciting movements is rooted on the dialogue between ancestral drums and ardent strings that has given birth to her native country lively’coastal manifestations- vals, festejo, marinera, lando, zamacueca, tondero, etc. Her work has been compiled by the popular series Rough Guide of Afro Peru in London and Repercusión was chosen as one of the 5 most interesting albums produced by Latinos by music editor Luis Tamargo from Latin Beat magazine in LA. Her song Palo Santo has been chosen by the green French organization Plante & Planete 2010 exhibition and well established singers in the Peruvian music scene are recording her songs.
She has been invited to perform at root grass events for Peruvian songwriters in her native Peru like the Centro Cultural de España in Lima. When independent productions were not so easily popular and mass produced she was highly recommended by noted Creole music reviewer Alonso Rabí from El Comercio. Currently she continues writing and performs at Letra and Música, and Milla Zero, monthly Hispanic trova and poetry events in the Texas area to promote Spanish literature and Trova within the community.
Based on the above mentioned factors, Olga’s heart felt and sensual vocals, applied with equal passion to venerable standards and imaginative originals place her at the top of the hierarchy of Peru’s great divas, alongside such international stars as Susana Baca, Eva Ayllon and Tania Libertad.
hola amiga Olga,felicitaciones por tu trayectoria,soy Brenda de recientes
15 años y estoy debutando como pianista y cantante de jazz,estamos
trabajando jazz fusion por ahora tenemos doas canciones,un comentario
sera alegria que compartiremos,abrazos,Brenda
hi friends, we just got invitation
for to performance in a spanish program tv.(escandalo tv)
where we're going to sing one of these songs: (Raspame or Quizas Quizas), if you don't mind check out the music
and let us know which is your favorite.
hey Olga.....recibi su mensaje por youtube...voy a contactar a Jose Antonio, el que baila en el video, y le voy a dejar saber que lo quiere contactar...hace tiempo no me comunico con ellos, pero se como contactarlos. Jose tiene una pagina de hi5...pero no se con cuanto tiempo lo mira......Apenas tenga sus numeros se los doy.......Gracias por el add...y espero tener la oportunidad de conocerla.....Me encanta su trabajo, su voz y su música.....Cuídese mucho.....LM
Que disfrutes de una linda Navidad al lado de los tuyos y que el nuevo año por venir, sea el de grandes logros, sueños alcanzados, y que te depare solo alegrías y mucha felicidad!! Con cariño. KIKE.
Querida Olga, Espero estés muy, muy bien, componiendo esos hermosos temas que hacen muy bien al corazón. Quería aquí compartir contigo esta noticia que me llena de alegría: el JUEVES 2 DE OCTUBRE me estaré presentando junto a mi grupo y Patricia Saravia compartiendo temas de nuestro 2do disco: AROMAS, el JUEVES 2 DE OCTUBRE 10pm, en el JAZZ ZONE, ojalá estés por Perú y puedas venir. Te mando un abrazo grande!!!!Mucha buena fortuna!!!
ZAPATEANDO de alegría e imaginando el olor del PALO SANTO de mi tierra siento LA REPERCUSION en un CORAZON DE MANJAR BLANCO , gracias a EL HUAYRURO tuve la suerte de conocerte y luego de tiempo sin vernos recibo tus canciones en un PRENDE Y APAGA guiándome a recordar EL PARQUE DEL AMOR donde algun día me sente a cantar algunos FUEGOS DISIMULADOS.
Escuchar a Olguita es realmente disfrutar de lo bueno!!!! y apreciar excelentes nuevos aportes en nuestra música. Gracias por compartir tu gran talento y tu amistad. Hasta siempre Billy Castillo
Hola, Olga. Permíteme felicitarte por tan bellas canciones, deliciosa voz, maravillosa interpretación... y felicitarme por la suerte de encontrarte y disfrutar de tu talento... Gracias por compartirlo!!... Vaya para tí el deseo de muchísimos éxitos que tal vez merecidamente ya has logrado, y que lamentablemente, no por no quererlo, he ignorado. También un abrazo enorme que espero logre alcanzarte desde esta lejana orilla... Con aprecio: KIKE GOYA.
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