Corina Bartra was the first vocalist to blend Afro Peruvian and criolla music with jazz. As a composer, she also pioneered subtle and exciting instrumental textures in her compositions and her arrangements, while writing extensive intros, interludes, and solos filled with inventive rhythms and beautiful harmonies. She also guides her musicians to do so. With this approach, she adds an instrumental section to her unique & historic projects. With degrees in both jazz percussion and vocal performance, she resides in the New York area (when she is not in Peru), where she not only plays but can study the works of all those artists who came before her, building the international sound of jazz to what it is today. Corina was the recipient of the prestigious Queens Council on the Arts award in 2008. Her ground-breaking fusion of jazz and afro Latin music has been chronicled on her releases: Corina Bartra Quartet, Son Zumbon, and Travelog, when one could hear the incorporation of the cajon (Peruvian percussive box) and the festejo groove blended with jazz.

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