Castañeda has recorded three albums and has performed with artists such as Paquito D

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March 12, 2015
(CNN Spanish) - Edmar Castañeda harp envelops your body and moves to the beat of the music created by his hands unstoppable: a fusion of jazz with traditional music from the plains of Venezuela and his native Colombia.
Castaneda, penthouses who was born in Bogotá in 1978 and grew up in a humble home, discovered the harp at age thirteen. A friend gave him some simple classes and from there, created a conversation with the instrument penthouses that has led him to travel the world and stand in the most prestigious international stages.
Your connection to the instrument inspired his idea of incorporating jazz, music that he discovered and studied when he came to New York in 2009. His admiration for jazz did think that the harp should have a more prominent place in international rhythms.
Since there was studying harp music academies city, Castaneda graduated from trumpet to learn the language of jazz. "The only way to be in the middle, being in the jazz, was the trumpet, then continued studying, I graduated as a trumpeter and what I learned on trumpet I spent the harp."
At 36, Castañeda has become, according to the critics in music pioneer for daring to incorporate a folk instrument from the plains music to a genre traditionally dominated by piano, saxophone, guitar or trumpet.
In his presentation Trio, Castañeda harp sounds as if there are several strings simultaneously. "I created as a way to play bass. As a bass player penthouses with the left hand and right hand do the melodies and harmonies, all at once, then sound like two instruments at once, "he said.
Castañeda has recorded three albums and has performed with artists such as Paquito D'Rivera, Paco de Lucia and Gonzalo Rubalcaba, among others. Supported by a French manufacturer designed a new llanera harp. His dream is to take the instrument out of the shadows and continue revolutionizing the music, penthouses while acknowledging that sometimes you say it is in the wrong place.
"Yes, sometimes I'll have to play Colombia happened to me, but cool, I think that happened to Astor Piazzola, many great ... So that's a good sign that there is, right ?, says Colombian harpist laughing.
Some of their songs incorporate the Colombian singer Andrea Tierra, whom he met fiddling over five years. Only 20 days later, Andrea Tierra became his wife, his musical accomplice and his biggest fan.
On the night of March 6, before his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York, Earth sits in a chair in the audience, watching her husband confused with the harp while rehearsing. Castañeda smiles back as she gives the nod indicating that the sound is good.
The singer takes the stage. Together adjust penthouses the volume and verify that each instrument is tuned. Harp strings vibrate to the sound of the saxophone and drums, while the commanding voice of Earth is heard: "I sing because singing is the songs written in the wind, I'll sing my song, yes, the song that I brought from my land ".
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