BIX TIPP • Yilian Cañizares

Yilian Cañizares is a unique artist - and not just because of her talent and aesthetics.

As part of the diaspora of talented Cuban artists who share their music, social consciousness and spiritual sensibility with the world, her Afro-Cuban style combines her classical virtuosity and jazz sensibility with her Havana experiences.
As a violinist, singer and composer, Yilian toured for several years with Cuban jazz legends Chucho Valdés and Omar Sosa and regularly collaborates with renowned artists such as Michael League, Ibrahim Maalouf, Youn Sun Nah and Richard Bona.

In 2021, she received the Swiss Music Prize and was invited by the United Nations as the "Voice of the Ocean" to produce and present a new composition for World Oceans Day. Her last album "Erzulie" was highly praised by critics. At the Songlines Music Awards 2021 she won the award for Best Album/Best Artist. As a soloist, she takes a feminine perspective of Afro-Cuban music, embracing the power, rhythms and nurturing warmth of Mother Earth.

As an international artist with a strong social and environmental conscience, Yilian defines her music with these words: "My sound reflects the richness and mix of cultures I carry today. It reflects what I am: a woman, Cuban, musician and citizen of the world".

To celebrate her ten-year stage career, the unmissable violinist and singer is now surprising us with a secret and completely unexpected project that was recently recorded in Brazil: Habana-Bahia.

Cast: Yilian Canizares (vl, ld); Inor Sotolongo (perc); Childo Tomás (b)