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Cande y Paulo are Cande Buasso and Paulo Carrizo. They
caught the attention of the world when a performance of ‘Barro Tal Vez’,
an achingly intense but minimalist Argentine rock classic went viral on
YouTube amassing 13 million views.
Incredibly, the pair first met when Cande was fifteen, a restlessly
creative child who had told her mother at four that she fully intended to
be famous. Paulo, a multi-instrumentalist and arranger equally at home in
classical and rock music, gave Cande some piano lessons. For several
years Paulo’s work as a keyboardist took him into the mainstream rock
scene in Buenos Aires, before he returned to San Juan to find his former
pupil, who is self-taught in opera and jazz, rapidly mastering a unique
combination of vocals and double bass.
The duo’s spellbinding NPR: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert, which is
part of this year's edition of the LAMC (Latin Alternative Music
Conference) was filmed at the Teatro Bicentenario in San Juan (the same
venue that ‘Barro Tal Vez’ was filmed, the performance that started it
all for the duo).
Watch the session here.
Co-creator and host of Alt.Latino (NPR's pioneering program about Latin
Alternative music and Latino culture) Felix Contreras says that the duo
are "one of our
favorite discoveries of 2021", and continues, "The first time I heard this
Argentine duo was love at first sight”.
Cande y Paulo have also recently performed at this year's Cheltenham Jazz
Festival. Introduced by Gregory Porter, he expressed: "expect big things from this
duo."
They will perform this summer at the Montreux Jazz
Festival.
Their debut album (out via Decca Records in London), recorded and
produced in LA alongside multi-GRAMMY award winner Larry Klein
(Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock), is a beautiful collection of re-worked
songs including, ‘I Fall In Love Too Easily’, ‘Summertime’, ‘Treaty’ ‘The
Thrill Is Gone’, ‘Sugar Mountain’,
‘Tuyo’ and ‘Barro Tal Vez’.
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