LADAMA
LADAMA | |
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| Origin | Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, United States |
| Genres | cumbia, maracatu, joropo, soul, pop[1] |
| Years active | 2014–present |
| Labels | Six Degrees |
| Associated acts | Callers |
| Website | www |
| Members |
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LADAMA is a Latin alternative band of four women musicians and activists—Lara Klaus, Daniela Serna, Mafer Bandola and Sara Lucas—originating from Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, and the United States respectively, along with their collaborator, American bassist Pat Swoboda. Their music fuses sounds from South America and the Caribbean with soul, R&B, and pop.[2]
In addition to public performances, LADAMA holds educational workshops in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, where they hope to provide a foundation for participants to "use music as a basic form of personal expression to address issues pertinent to them."[3] LADAMA continues to perform and offer workshops at venues and festivals around the world.[4] LADAMA seeks to empower primarily women and youth (but everyone is welcome) through these interactive musical experiences.[3]
History[edit]
The quartet formed in 2014 while touring the West Coast as part of the OneBeat Program.[1] Their self-titled debut album was released September 8, 2017 on Six Degrees Records and reached #1 on both iTunes and Amazon’s Latin Music Charts in January, 2018.[2] It contains mostly new songs written and performed by the band members, embracing a variety Latin American musical genres.[5] LADAMA has performed at TED, the Skoll World Forum, and on ESPN’s hispanic heritage special “The Latino Experience”, which aired on October 10, 2017.[2] In January 2018 they were featured on NPR's All Things Considered which praised their "irresistible spirit and universal appeal.”[6]
Band Members[edit]
- Mafer Bandola (María Fernanda González Olivo) is a bandola llanera player, educator and composer born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. She also studied the mandolin, the cuatro and the violin, Mafer has been recognized as the world's most prominent female bandola llanera player. With a degree in social communication and through her concerts, activism and educational work, González seeks to encourage and promote more female musicians playing traditional Venezuelan music, and to promote the bandola llanera in the world.[7]
- Lara Klaus is a Recife, Brazil-based percussionist, educator, singer, and composer. Her percussion instruments include pandeiro, alfaia, and zabumba, amoung others. She has played at numerous music festivals (Montreux Jazz Festival [Switzerland], Latino Americando Festival [Italy], Samba Festival [Germany]) and taught all-ages workshops throughout South America, Europe and the United States. Klaus has performed with Elba Ramalho, Roberto Menescal, Moraes Moreira and Emílio Santiago and other Brazilian musicians.[7] In March 2018 Lara released Força do Gesto on Six Degrees Records, a solo album exploring a variety of styles and instruments which features Klaus on drum-kit and guitar.[8]
- Daniela Serna is a Bogotá-based composer, percussionist, educator and sound artist. Serna was noticed in 2012 after winning a Señal Radio Colombia contest to perform with legendary folk-singer bullerengue queen Petrona Martínez. In 2014 she presented “Bullerengue Covers,” a sound installation exploring the sonics of tambour alegre (hand drum) and surrounding space for which El Puente, her experimental duo with Uva Lunera, composed the music.[9] In the same year, Serna co-founded an all-female Caribbean folk band La Perla, and performed with the group until 2017. Serna continues to teach traditional Caribbean Colombian music styles (bullerengue, gaita, cumbia, porro, fandango) and perform with LADAMA.[10]
- Sara Lucas is a New York City-based singer-songwriter and guitarist. Before LADAMA, Lucas co-founded the band Callers with Ryan Seaton, with which she produced three full-length albums (Fortune, Life of Love and Reviver) and a seven-inch split with Luaka Bop artist, Delicate Steve.[11] In 2012, Callers featured on WNYC’s Soundcheck on Spinning On Air.[12] The group has since performed at numerous festivals (Primavera Club, Tanned Tin Festival, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry at BAM, Festival de la Musica Nelle, Hillside Fest), toured with Dirty Projectors, Here We Go Magic, ESG and Wye Oak and shared stages with Nat Baldwin, Patti Smith, Arto Lindsay and Tune-Yards. In 2015 Lucas began serving as a facilitator for production workshops with youth in Brooklyn and Hudson, NY with Found Sound Nation and Hear Be Dragons. Lucas is currently working on a solo record.[13]
Discography[edit]
- LADAMA (2017)
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Johnson, Catalina Maria (18 May 2018). "LADAMA: The Pan-Latinx Sound of Self-Actualization". NPR. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Press Kit". LADAMA. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "For Pan-American Band LADAMA, Empowering Other Women Is The Ultimate Reward". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
- ↑ "Agrupación Ladama le canta a las mujeres de América Latina". Diario Las Américas. 15 Mar 2018. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
- ↑ Johnson-Laird, Dorothy (17 Jan 2018). "Interview with Ladama". World Music Central. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
- ↑ "In Debut Album, Ladama Reinterprets Sounds From 4 Countries". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 http://www.ladamaproject.org/english#whoweare-english
- ↑ https://www.sixdegreesrecords.com/lara-klaus/
- ↑ https://anchor.fm/femalex/episodes/World-music-Daniela-Serna-ev66k
- ↑ https://1beat.org/people/daniela-serna/
- ↑ https://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/133086826/callers-better-living-through-limitation
- ↑ https://www.wnyc.org/story/234378-callers-studio/
- ↑ http://www.talkhouse.com/sara-lucas-talks/
External links[edit]
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