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Nicolas Herrera

I´m an Argentinian musician based in Barcelona, Spain. I grew up in San Juan, Argentina, a small city next to the Andes Mountains in the west part of the country. There I began studying classical guitar at age 12, and started playing regular gigs on electric guitar by age 15, after studying for several years at the Music Conservatory of the city. In 2000 I moved to Barcelona to continue my career in music and began writing my own material as well. In 2014 I earned a degree in Jazz Guitar after attending the Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña, “ESMUC”. As a renowned guitar performer, I´ve had the chance to work as a freelance artist in different kind of music productions in Europe, South America and even China and Costa Rica. Also possess more than fifteen years of progressive experience in guitar teaching. After many years recording and performing as a sideman on many different projects, my debut album, “Kala”, is about to be released. Here it´s been put together an incredibly fine, yet distinctive quintet, assembled with some of the most relevant musicians at the local scene, and very close friend of mine as well! The recorded music goes from some originals songs I wrote sometime ago, plus a few arrangements of mine, which are based on the music of the very well known Argentinian artist Atahualpa Yupanqui. The record, to my point of view, introduces an intimate, warm kind of music, and I believe we achieved an extraordinary sense of comunication at the session. Hence there is an excellent opportunity to get to this sort of “particular musical universe”, where Jazz and Argentinian musical roots gets together in a beautiful combination.

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Kala

Self Produced
2017

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Red Rose

From: Kala
By Nicolas Herrera

La Copla

From: Kala
By Nicolas Herrera

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