Annette A. Aguilar and StringBeans

Percussionist/bandleader Annette A. Aguilar was born in San Francisco into a family from Nicaragua. She began playing music at the age of 11 and began drum lessons at 13. She was influenced by the music of Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead. When she was 16 she was performing with Latin artists Chepito Areas, Cal Tjader and Pete and Sheila Escovedo (Sheila E.

Percussionist/bandleader Annette A. Aguilar was born in San Francisco into a family from Nicaragua. She began playing music at the age of 11 and began drum lessons at 13. She was influenced by the music of Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead. When she was 16 she was performing with Latin artists Chepito Areas, Cal Tjader and Pete and Sheila Escovedo (Sheila E.). She studied Afro-Cuban percussion with Marcus Gordon and learned Brazilian percussion performing with the Afro-Brazilian group Batucaje. She holds a degree in classical music/orchestral percussion from San Francisco State University, and her masters in music from the Manhattan School of Music. She has performed with Stevie Wonder, Tito Puente, Jefferson Airplane, Jimmy Cliff, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the Greatful Dead and others. StringBeans, her Latin Brazilian jazz group, was formed in 1992.

Guitarist/vocalist Emanuel Moreira was born in Miami. He took his first guitar lesson at the age of seven from the famed Brazilian guitarist Sebastiao Tapajoz. He studied a mixture of arts including orchestral conducting at the Juilliard School in New York, acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, and Brazilian dance with famed Carlinhos de Jesus in Rio de Janeiro. He has worked professionally as a guitarist, singer, arranger, musical director, composer and producer. His repertoire includes pop, rock, jazz, blues, reggae, samba, salsa, calypso, mambo and he has performed in Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean.

Harpist Ellen Marie Uryevick Adams grew up in New York City listening to Latin music. She combines a classical background with Afro-Cuban, Caribbean, and a Brazilian beat. Adams studied classical harp with Bernie Horowitz, and jazz harp with Anita Clark. She has performed with Laura Nyro, Pete Seeger, Dizzy Gillespie, and personal appearances include Carnegie Hall and presently as a solo harpist in the Plaza and Waldorf Astoria hotels.

Electric bassist Ana Milat Meyer is a native of Brooklyn, New York who studied bass with Ron Carter, Ray Santos and Guillermo Edgehill. For two years she toured extensively with the ska band, Pilfers, and has performed Latin jazz for the Brooklyn Museum, and the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.

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5/13/03: Annette A. Aguilar and StringBeans

Annette A. Aguilar and StringBeans is a Latin Brazilian ensemble of percussion (Annette A. Aguilar), guitar (Emanuel Moreira), harp (Ellen Marie Uryevick Adams), and electric bass (Ana Milat Meyer). This preformance kicks-off their U.S. Department of State Jazz Ambassadors tour to Africa.

Annette A. Aguilar and StringBeans

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