Raíces de América or Roots of America

The Musicians

The Musicians that form the Band Raíces
Oscar Segovia
Tadeu Passarelli
Jara Arrais
Chico Pedro
Miriam Miràh
Pedro la Colina
Willy Verdaguer
André Perine

The current cast that together turns out to be the Raíces de América is formed by eight multi-instruments player musicians, merging string, andino, acoustic and electrical instruments, andino flutes, transversal flutes, drums and percussion, that propitiate the creation of a type of music that hangs around through the various rhythm streams that compose the richness of the latin american sounds. Thus, the Raíces de América enchants and excites the audiences, presenting a primorous, delicate and passionate show.

Willy Verdaguer Willy Verdaguer
Willy Verdaguer, argentinian, eletric  bass player and maestro, arrived in Brazil in 1967 with the band "Beat Boys", took part of the Record TV Festivals, where he played with Caetano Veloso (Alegria Alegria); Gilberto Gil (Questão tde Ordem); and Gal Costa (Divino Maravilhoso) ...
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Miriam Miràh Miriam Miràh
Miriam Miràh, brazilian, already known as a great interpreter since the she created the Musical group Tarancón, played na important role in 5 phonographic works of the group, with which crossed the whole country in more than one thousand presentations througout nine years, is considered the muse of the latin music in Brazil....
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Pedro la Colina Pedro la Colina
Pedro la Colina, was born in  Antofagasta, Chile, singer and percussionist. Iniciated his career with the band El Comobo,  together with the sound arranger and piano player Pepe Cisneros, from Guantanamo - Cuba, and with the saxophonist Felipe Lamoglia, de Havana, with whom he took part of the  presentation for the inauguration of the Parlatino, in the Latin America, in São Paulo, in 1993...
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Oscar Segovia Oscar Segovia
Oscar Segovia, was born in Chile. From 1968 through 1973 played drums in the band “Amigos de Maria”, from Santiago, having taken part of recordings by Odeon and with presentations in various countries. In 1974, as a percussionist of the band Chaski, crossed the whole Brazil and performed some different seasons in Funarte ballroom, MASP and Aliança Francesa...
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Tadeu Passarelli Tadeu Passarelli
Tadeu Passarelli, cravo player, guitar player, eletric guitar player, trombonist, he is the son of a radio singer ( from the forties). He studied music his whole life. Since de piano playing in the Pro Arte of São Paulo in the sixties to the Orchestra Performed a role in the band of the Musical play HAIR, ...
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Chico Pedro Chico Pedro
Chico Pedro, chileno, started  his musical studies in Chile, with the pianist Berta Cambria, and then, after a while he went ool . Took part of various bands, till he joined the band Huenteman, and participated of many festivals in the fifth region of Chile, till 1981...
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André Perine André Perine
André Perine, brazilian, guitar player, eletric bass player, composer and arranjador. He worked with Yara Miranda, Denise Assumpção, Itamar Assumpção, João Pacífico, Renato Teixeira, Vidal França among others...
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Jara Arrais Jara Arrais
Jara Arrais, brazilian, musician, maestro and arranjador of the vocal groups "Cantares" from Diadema and "Contratempo", from santo André. He took part of the musical play "Canta América" as both a singer and a guitar player. Performed a play role in the plays "A Nave Mãe", "A Água é Vida",...
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