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Daniel Huezo is a 22-year-old musician from El Salvador who now makes his home in Toronto. Trained in Latin American folklorico musical traditions, Daniel started playing with Xolotl, El Salvador's premier folklore ensemble, at the tender age of sixteen. More recently, he has become known to Canadian festival aficionados as a member of Nacascol, Uru and Grupo Raymi. Daniel's debut solo album for AVA, Comienzos (Beginnings), features classic traditional and folklore songs from El Salvador, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela. A versatile multi-instrumentalist, Daniel sings and plays most of the instruments himself, from guitar and quena to charango and cuatro. Comienzos introduces Canadian audiences to Latin American classics that are still relatively unknown in North America, from the joyous cumbias "La traviesa" and "Moliendo cafe" to the touching Salvadorean ballad "Regalo para un nino." Beautifully performed and richly textured, Comienzos is a truly timeless recording, establishing Daniel as one of Toronto's foremost acoustic artists. |
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Title: Comienzos (Beginnings)
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Big news: Only week after his splashy introduction in the November 1996 issue of Sound Choice magazine, Daniel Huezo's Comienzos has become an enormously popular album with BMG Music Club members. Congratulations to Daniel!
Gig Announcement: Daniel Huezo and his five-piece band will be playing in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada at 8 pm Saturday March 22, as part of the Folk Under The Clock series. Bring your dancin' shoes!
Recording Plans: Any day now, Daniel will be heading back into the studio with producer Robert Wright to begin work on an album of Latin American and traditional Christmas music, played in the folklorico style and sung in Spanish. Anybody who saw Daniel's Christmas show at Harbourfront (Toronto, Canada) will agree that his treatment of seasonal music is a rare treat. We hope to have the new CD available for purchase by Christmas 1997! We'll keep you posted on its progress.
Last update: 13 February 1997.
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