Sequoia - Angela Esmeralda Santoceano

Sequoia (CH)

The spontaneous and improvisational ease of jazz and the powerful catchiness of a pop song: Sequoia brings both together. The Zurich-based band started playing together in 2021 and had their first concert in Musikklub Mehrspur in Zurich. Earthy beats, colorful chords, crisp basslines and a soulful voice take you into a new world and offer you a powerful cocktail of soul, jazz and disco. Inspired by "D'Angelo", "Hiatus Kaiyote" and "Erykah Badu", Sequoia presents you an inspiring set that has it all!

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Angela Esmeralda Santoceano (IT)

Angela Esmeralda is a southern Italian-born singer, songwriter and composer who has established herself as one of the most expressive voices, capable of a charge of power and elegance that is breathtaking even in the personality of her songs. Over the years she has created and collaborated on projects that have led her to represent Italian blues in the USA, Memphis TN with the Angela Esmeralda & Sebastiano Lillo project for the International Blues Challenge international finals and at the European Blues Challenge European finals in the Azores Islands with The Drive. 

Since 2019 she has been permanently collaborating with saxophonist and composer Gaetano Partipilo, whose personal sound and advanced improvisational concepts have led him to become a prominent figure among jazz fans and critics, in the crossover jazz project Boom Collective with Federico Pecoraro, Seby Burgio, and Dario Congedo.

With more than five albums under her belt as a leader and collaborator, Angela Esmeralda has graced stages such as Pistoia Blues, the Bellinzona Blues Festival, JazzTempo in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Fest Jazza in Croatia, the Italian Cultural Institutes in Portugal and Albania and many more. 

SANTOCEANO is the project with which she is completely facing up to her music and an audience of her own. A vortex of music at once sanguine and intimate. 

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