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15 - 24 November 2024

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Osvaldo Chacon + DJ Javier

Osvaldo Chacon + DJ Javier

Sun 20 November 2022

Stage time / 8:00pm

Celebrating the Jazz Clubs

Location

Juju's Bar & Stage,
15 Hanbury Street
E1 6QR
A regular at The Jazz Cafe and other iconic London venues, Osvaldo Chacon's band have earned a reputation as the UK’s leading Timba orchestra, while winning and being nominated several times at the prestigious LUKAS awards.

Composer, producer and songwriter Osvaldo Chacón (or “El Professor de la Timba”, as he was baptized in Peru), has performed alongside Latin greats including Adalberto Santiago, Azuquita, Tito Allen (Fania All Stars), Roberto Plat, Salsaceltica, Eddie Palmieri, Chick Corea and Latin percussionist Giovanni Hidalgo, as well as America's supreme luminaries Celia Cruz, Oscar d'León, Rubén Blades and Alberto 'El Canario'.

Chacon has played extensively with his band at festivals across the UK and Europe including Cuba Presente! Festival, the Clerkenwell Festival, the World Beat Festival in Morecombe Bay, Musicport in Whitby, as well as headlining at the Barbican Center, Royal Festival Hall, the Millennium Dome and Africa Centre.

A regular at The Jazz Cafe and other iconic London venues, the band have earned a reputation as the UK’s leading Timba orchestra, while winning and being nominated several times at the prestigious LUKAS awards.

Supporting Osvaldo Chacon, DJ Javier La Rosa has been DJ-ing in the UK since his arrival from Cuba several years ago, playing Salsa and Timba Cubana, Reggaeton, Latin, Hip-Hop and R&B .
Javier has supported many of Cuba’s greatest musicians in concert in the UK and France, including Los Van Van, Pupy Y Los Que Son Son, Maykel Blanco, Havana De Primera, Elito Reve Y Sy Charangon, Sierra Maestra, Osvaldo Chacon, Paulito FG, Sur Caribe, Manolito Simonet Y Su Trabuco and Candido Fabre.

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