Yvonne Sánchez didn’t expect to become a singer, but destiny has brought her down this path.
This Polish-Cuban jazz and latin vocalist, with her honey-smooth
voice, has wooed audiences across the world. Having performed
briefly as a percussionist with some of the top musicians in her native
Poland, including Jozef Skrezek, she moved to Germany and left music
behind her. But then in 1994, she moved to Prague where she met
saxophonist Mike Tramonte and guitarist Max Voegler, who helped
her discover her hidden voice.
Within months, Sánchez had become a staple of the Prague jazz
scene, playing with the country’s top musicians including bassist
Robert Balzar, pianist Jan “Najponk” Knop and saxophonist Karel Ruzicka, Jr. Her vocal repertoire
spanned jazz standards by Duke Ellington, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, to the
Bossa Nova sounds of Antonio Carlos Jobim.
In 1995, she gave her first concert at Prague’s famed Reduta Jazz Club,
where musicians as diverse as Miles Davis to former American president
Bill Clinton have played. She continued to immerse herself in the
Prague jazz scene, which culminated in 1998 by being awarded Vocalist
of the Year by the prestigious Czech Jazz Society.
The journey of a musician is never planned and Yvonne's is no different.
Besides her phenomenal success in the Czech Republic, she has
performed in Turkey, Slovakia, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Portugal,
France, Latvia, Cuba, Brazil and the United States. These different
cultures have acted as a catalyst for her artistic development.
As she strays outside conventional jazz, she has embraced the music
of her latin roots, Bossa Nova and Samba. The results of this
can be heard on her debut 2001 album “Invitation,” recorded with
the renowned Robert Balzar Trio. The following year “Invitation”
was nominated for a Czech Grammy and to date is the all-time best
selling Czech Jazz CD.
Yvonne Sanchez just finished her work on the long awaited album entitled "My Garden" Which was released by Warner Music Czech Republic September 1st, 2008. In "My Garden" Yvonne expresses the creative fusion of her musical influences through her own original compositions. Yvonne Sanchez, since the release of MY GARDEN received two Grammy nominations for Album of the Year and Jazz Record of the year.
Congradulations Yvonne, one year after the release of MY GARDEN, Warner Music announces "MY GARDEN" reaches GOLD!
idnes.cz exclusive press release July 29, 2008:
Ačkoliv je zpěvačka Yvonne Sanchez polsko-kubánského původu, patří už více než deset let mezi první dámy české jazzové scény. První zářijový den vydá nové album My Garden. Portál iDNES.cz nabízí k poslechu exkluzivně první singl Voa Voa.
Yvonne Sanchez debutovala roku 2001 albem Invitation, natočeným se slavným triem kontrabasisty Roberta Balzara (jenž doprovází i Dana Bártu a je základem jeho Illustratosphere), My Garden bude její druhou oficiální nahrávkou a zároveň první u velké nahrávací společnosti - Warner Music.
Album My Garden je rozhodně velmi ambiciózním projektem. Bylo nahráno v České republice a Polsku, Yvonne Sanchez je autorkou či spoluautorkou všech skladeb. Instrumentální základy nahrála plejáda zajímavých instrumentalistů domácí scény i ze zahraničí.
Mezi zúčastněnými najdeme například klávesistu Viliama Bereše a bubeníka Romana Víchu (oba Toxique), pianistu Stanislava Máchu a trombonistu Filipa Jelínka (oba Illustratosphere), známé jazzové kontrabasisty Rasťo Uhríka a Tarase Vološčuka, baskytaristu Jana Jakubce, kytaristy Lukáše Martinka, Josefa Štěpánka, Thyaga Ferreiru a Pedra Taglianiho či amerického saxofonistu Stana Cherednika.
Finální mix a mastering provedl v Polsku Tadeusz Mieczkowski. Tento uznávaný producent a zvukař se podílel například i na posledním albu Dana Bárty anebo na společném projektu Anny Marie Jopek a Pata Methenyho.
Album My Garden vyjde ve stejný den nejen v České republice a na Slovensku, ale také v Polsku a jedná se o vydání v dalších zemích. Některé skladby z něj se již však objevily na chilloutových a jazzových kompilacích vydaných v Německu, Polsku a Rakousku.
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