Leonardo Garcia with recently released album "Doce"

Leonardo Garcia an accom plished keyboardist, pianist, composer and arranger. Styles include Jazz, Latin and Salsa, and Rock/Fusion. He was nominated and won The Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA) November 2018 for the category Latin Traditional. He is a recording artist and arranger, and has performed with various groups and orchestras in the DC area for over 30 years. He maintains a busy schedule performing live and working on various recording projects; including the release of a Latin Jazz album March 2018, titled Leonardo Garcia. Doce is work of true collaboration; featuring lyrics on ten songs by Daniel Alexander. Leonardo and Daniel are very close friends and have performed, recorded and continue to collaborate on a number of projects for over 30 years. Leonardo commenced playing salsa with the DC based Orquesta Peligro that performed at Chelsea’s in Georgetown. The concept of this album, Doce, translation is Twelve, was to bring twelve aggressive salsa songs, or ‘Salsa Dura’ that were well played for the salsa dancer, salsa enthusiast, and also for the ear of the listener enjoying different rhythms, harmonies and melodies. Doce has a lot of symbolism to it, but also has significance to Leonardo, as it was about this age that he started to play piano; having commenced music with guitar and percussion. The album includes tracklist with featured artists are "Baila Mi Rumba" features Miguel Angel Barrios, "Ella" features Gonzalo Diaz, "La Verdad" features Mariana La Sonera, "Gitana" features Gonzalo Diaz, "Ahora" features Jorge Nicolay Aviles, 'No Preguntes" features Rodrigo Mendoza, "Ojos Que No Ven" features Hector Pagan and "Vivian Mojica No Me Mires Asi" features Marcial Isturiz, "Tonto Corazon" is dedicated to Bill Moore the song features by Memo Arroyave, "Otra Ocupa Tu Lugar" features Miguel Angel Barrios, "Cuidala" features Verny Varela, "Sabor a Mi Tierra" features Miguel Angel Barrios on vocals.

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