Italo and Sabor del Barrio - Shablul Club
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Doors at Shablul club open an hour and a half before the show starts. It's recommended to arrive close to door opening. Italo Gonzalez, one of the leading Latin singers in Israel, a stage animal and audience favorite, known to many as the lead singer of the successful Buena Vista Social Club tribute, returns to Shablul with his band Sabor del Barrio for a tribute evening to Willie Colón, one of the all-time greats of salsa, who passed away in February this year and left behind a magnificent musical legacy. Colón was one of the figures who shaped New York salsa and gave it its rough, bold, and sweeping sound. Colón, born to a Puerto Rican family who grew up in the Bronx, New York, was a trombonist, composer, arranger, and groundbreaking producer. Already in the 1960s he began shaping the new sound of salsa, combining Afro-Caribbean rhythms with jazz, dominant brass instruments, and urban energy. His legendary collaborations with Héctor Lavoe and Rubén Blades produced some of the most important albums in the genre's history, chief among them Siembra, which became a milestone in Latin music. Gonzalez, born in Chile, immigrated to Israel in 1995 and was the lead singer of Jerusalem Salsa Band, one of the pioneers of salsa in Israel, which performed for eight years at the legendary Porto Loco club in the Tel Aviv port and introduced many Israelis for the first time to South American music and culture. Over the years he has collaborated with David Broza, Boom Pam, Pablo Rosenberg, and other artists. Now he brings to Shablul, together with the seven musicians of Sabor del Barrio, Colón's music in its full power: trombones, percussion, piano, bass, and vocals, in a meeting of blazing rhythms, unforgettable melodies, and groove that's impossible to stay indifferent to. An evening of New York salsa at its best, music that goes straight to the heart and the feet. Italo Gonzalez - vocals and percussion, Yaron Uzana - trombone, Chen Chen (Pepe) Meir - congas, Oded Meir - trombone, Amir Pinto - timbales, Itay Abramovich - piano, Uriel Said - bass.
