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Axel And Xiomara Laugart
Courtesy of Brendan McGeehan | Posted on September 19, 2019
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Fri, October 18, 2019
8:00 am
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Axel and Xiomara Laugart return to @exuberance.
Presenters, like parents, are not supposed to have favorites. But of the 53 salons we have presented, these musical artists are mine. They spelled exuberance from A to X to a spellbound audience here in February 2018. They cannot help but do so again.
Xiomara is a phenomenon. James Nadal calls Xiomara Laugart “the preeminent Cuban songstress of her generation.” A trio of Chesky recordings testify to the truth and scope of that claim—Xiomara (2006), La Voz(2010), and Tears and Rumba (2015). Check out “Escandalo” from that last album. She steps easily through slack time, ever on it. Her delivery of a lyric is bright, persuasive. Her chest voice shakes my soul....