Roxana Amed

ROXANA AMED , Jan 2016 Born in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, vocalist and songwriter Roxana Amed is considered by colleagues, audiences and critics one of the most important voices in Argentine music. Along the last twelve years she has released six albums and developed a sophisticated sound including the greatest authors in her country. Also delivered original music and received for that awards and nominations apart from an undisputed title as one of the best vocalists in Argentine Music producing a fusion of jazz with Argentine folk and rock, the only performer in this music in Spanish Language. She has released six albums, LIMBO and ENTREMUNDOS, produced with Grammy award winner Pedro Aznar (ex Pat Metheny Group), LA VOZ MÁS ALLA (DVD), CINEMATECA FINLANDESA, dúo album with Grammy nominee Adrián Iaies, INOCENCIA, tribute to Argentine folk music with celebrated collaborations from jazz arranger Guillermo Klein, LA SOMBRA DE SU SOMBRA, dúo album with NY pianist composer Frank Carlberg, featuring original music to the poetry by Argentine author Alejandra Pizarnik. Her albums, now released by SONY Music US Latin, have received Gardel Awards and Gardel Award nominations. Amed is exclusive author for SONY/ATV Music Publishing also works as a songwriter for world known commercial artists and collaborates with jazz composers as lyricists. Some reviews: “Roxana Amed’s is as unclassifiable as the most jazzistic works by Joni Mitchell. In her second album, produced by Pedro Aznar, she shines as a Performer and songwriter”. Considere done of the best 5 Jazz albums of the year, Claudio Kleiman – ROLLING STONE, anuario 2006. “Argentine Roxana Amed is a delight, with a rich voice that has both great flexibility and emotion. She conducted some master classes on singing during the festival. (Classes were also led by Hersch, Waits, Penman and Cardenas during the festival). But she was not part of the 2009 concert schedule. She did, however, appear at one of the jam sessions led by trumpeter Gillespi, where she did a killer version of Monk's "Ask Me Now," backed only by festival director Iaies on piano. She has a great way of playing with the melody, using her voice like an instrument. She and Iaies both have great fervor in their performance and the duet was exquisite. Overall, Amed can be just as likely to sing a Joni Mitchell song, an original composition, jazz or pop—all with equal joy and excitement.” RJ DELUKE, January, 2010, ALL ABOUT JAZZ “Roxana Amed has built a remarkable place in the Argentine musical map because she is responsible for the whole creative process, composition, arrangements, production and, of course, the fine art of performing. What is interesting is that this place is not conceived as a safe place to rest, for example, on the virtues of her magnificent voice, but as a platform from which risks are taken.” Roxana Amed’s originality: Risk zone, Revista Veintitrés, May, 2011 by Nicolás Russo "Her voice is prodigious, she has a huge range and never falls in the demagoguery: on the contrary, Amed's last albums demand almost an absolute concentration." "The voice that implodes", PÁGINA 12, August 14th, 2011, by Mariano del Mazo