Accompanied by a solo pianist, Cuban singer Candi Sosa took the stage at the Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts to share her magnetic voice and distinguished vibrato with the audience during the latest installment of Inside Latin Jazz.
Professor of Music Danilo Lozano hosted the program, a series that offers intimate on-stage interviews with Latin jazz artists. During the interview, Sosa shared how she started singing at the age of six in Cuba, during Fidel Castro’s dictatorship. In the early 1960s, she fled her home country as part of Operation Peter Pan, an exodus of unaccompanied minors from Cuba to the Unites States organized by the Catholic Welfare Bureau. Sosa began a new life in Southern California and continued to pursue her passion for singing.
Sosa started her career as a teenager performing in various venues around the country. She spent a few years in Puerto Rico refining her craft and shaped her career as a Latin jazz bolero singer and she continues to perform to this day.
The Inside Latin Jazz series continues to offer fascinating and penetrating onstage interviews with leading Latin Jazz artists such as Sheila E., Poncho Sanchez, and Pedrito Martinez, among others.
