GalicianTunes: Artist - Nelson Quinteiro

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Nelson Quinteiro

Root music and latitude game. Vibrant, evocative, traditional and modern. Pieces of great Galician and universal sensitivity.

Musically active since 1997, Nelson Quinteiro is a percussionist, tambourine player and vocalist, cantareiro and arranger of interesting proposals of traditional singing.

In 2007, he came into contact with loops and delay pedals, achieving an innovative polyphonic proposal live around Galician oral music, which launched shows and soundtracks for traditional-contemporary dance shows. In 2014 he published his first album, "Orquesta Gharbo!", which gets incredible reviews from the specialized press and is presented in scenic locations such as Teatro Colón (A Coruña).

Since 2017, he has been accompanied by Brais González (piano) and Bla Castañer (percussion), from Caspervek Trío, touring in unique spaces such as the Hiru Arteta (Urrugne-French Basque Country) or Músicas al Natural in Viveiros O Piñeiro.

With the album “Músicas de Domingo” (2019) he achieves a high-quality and exciting live show. Moving tracks that make you travel within your armchair; a game of latitudes designed for a living room, a theatre, a lounge, an auditorium, a plaza, a museum, an unconventional space anywhere in the world, with the addition of a grand piano. A business card of Galician music with an impeccable invoice.