Carlos del Junco
Carlos del Junco (born 1958 in Havana, Cuba ) is a Canadian harmonica players of Cuban origin. He not only plays blues harp, but also in other genres, a sought-after artist.
Life
At the age of one year he emigrated with his parents to Canada, where he began playing the harmonica at the age of fourteen. He had his first appearance with his mathematics teacher in a talent show at his high school. But he received his university degree as a visual artist (sculptor ). This training made him a different look at the music throw. He said that music is to make just a different way, surfaces and shapes.
His harmonica technique learned del Junto in Chicago with Howard Levy, a jazz harmonica player. In the 1980s, he performed with groups of different styles, including the Latin-/Reggae-/R & B band Eyelevel, the Ontario College of Art Swing Band and six years with the rhythm-and - blues group The Buzz Upshaw band. Composed for Tomson Highway with the Dora Award -winning play Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing and 1991 he played the music. The production toured throughout Canada and stayed for seven weeks Toronto's Royal Alex Theatre on the game board. In 1993, he took with Bill Kinnar his first album Blues, a collection of Blue classics, Big Reed Records on. This Kinnar played acoustic guitar and dobro and singing. In the Hohner Harmonica World Championship in Trossingen he won the 1993 gold medals in both the diatonic blues category and in the jazz category.
Since 1996 also in Germany and the U.S., he performs regularly in Canada, however. In 2000 he played on the Harmonica Summit 2000 in Minneapolis, where he also led a workshop. In 2003 he played the opening act for Ray Charles at the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival. In the years since his first CD, he has often been nominated for the Toronto Blues Society 's Maple Leaf Blues Award, which he won in the years 2004 to 2007.