GABRIELA BELTRAMINO
Gabriela Beltramino is an Argentine singer and actress.
“With the colors of his voice it is possible to face a journey through different feelings, from euphoria to sadness". (La Voz del Interior, Argentina)
Both human fragility and power, in an invisible setting of transcendence, call the artist to action.
Berlin-based Argentine singer and songwriter Gabriela Beltramino releases “El Camello, el León y el Niño”, the album that confirms her broadening towards pop sounds after a first stage of her career in which she stood out as a jazz singer.
“El Camello, el León y el Niño” is Beltramino's second album after her celebrated debut with “Senses” (2015), which positioned her as a figure of Argentine vocal jazz. This time, the artist from Córdoba incorporates elements of national folklore and indie pop to give shape to a concept album inspired by the idea of transformation, based on the lyrics of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", Nietzsche's classic.
Beltramino's new album features exquisite arrangements that accompany the wide range of colors that emerge from the voice of the Argentine singer, who now finds a more personal artistic identity, steeped in all the influences she has absorbed in recent years.
The singer's old jazz universe is amalgamated with poetry in Spanish and the culture of her native land. Produced by Sebastián de la Riega, the album is completed with pads, double basses, drums, strings, and programming, which dialogue with Beltramino's poetics around limits, freedom, and the strength to forge one's own identity.
In addition, as part of the album project, Beltramino developed an eponymous newsletter with texts and images that accompanied the artist's transformation process.
"When the music that makes up this album came to me, I was wondering about the weight of limits, freedom, and the strength to manifest one's own identity. I believe that El Camello, el León y el Niño is an answer that I gave myself and that I now share," says Beltramino.
The 4th track “La Inmensidad”, has just been published. You can listen to it here.
The full album is expected on October 21st. You can pre-save it here.
ABOUT GABRIELA BELTRAMINO
Since her youth in the Argentine province of Córdoba, Gabriela Beltramino shaped her career towards two very marked interests: singing and acting. But it was when she listened to Ella Fitzgerald in depth that the scales tipped towards music and, in particular, towards vocal jazz.
At the age of 23, she began to travel to Buenos Aires to play and study with Argentine jazz references such as Mariano Loiácono, Roxana Amed, and Sofía Rei, and to share stages with Javier Malosetti, Pepi Taveira or Francisco Lo Vuolo.
In 2015 she released her first independent album, Senses, with arrangements of standards and own songs in a jazz key by Mariano Loiácono. Thanks to this work, she was named
Outstanding Artist of Culture in Córdoba and participated in jazz festivals in different provinces of Argentina, besides standing out in the main clubs of Buenos Aires. She also traveled to the Dominican Republic, where she sang with the renowned Pavel Núñez and Manuel Tejada.
At the end of that year, she moved definitively to the Argentine capital, where she became interested in folklore and began to write her own songs, inspired by her interest in multiple disciplines such as theater, poetry, cinema, writing and philosophy.
In 2020 she was selected as a resident singer at the Maduro Jazz Bar in Tokyo's Roppongi Hills complex. The outbreak of the pandemic forced her to stay stranded in Japan for several months, and during that time, she was introduced to Japanese calligraphy, Zen meditation, karate and, especially, butoh dance.
After that experience, she settled in Berlin, where she is finalizing details for the release of her new album, “El Camello, el León y El Niño”, the album that marks her expansion into new musical textures, closer to Argentine folklore and electronic rhythms.
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