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Buika at Nourse Theatre

Courtesy of Nancy Tubbs | Posted on January 16, 2015

Where

Nourse Theatre
275 Hayes Street
San Francisco, CA
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When

Sat, February 28, 2015
8:00 pm

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About

Since her introduction to the American marketplace in 2007 with her album Mi Nina Lola (My Little Girl Lola), Buika has experienced a meteoric rise, earning lavish praise from The New York Times, The Miami Herald, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as NPR, which quickly included her in their "50 Great Voices" radio gallery. Despite just a few concert appearances she earned two Latin Grammy nominations in 2008. Her next release, Nina de Fuego (Fire Child) paved the way for relocation to Miami in 2011 (she lovingly calls the US "the country of happiness and noise").

Before her career took off in the US she had already achieved success in Europe, performing on screen in the Pedro Almodovar film The Skin I Live In and dueting with pop singer Seal. Music from those projects and more were collected in 2011 on the essential 2-CD set En Mi Piel (In My Skin) to satisfy a growing demand for her music in her new country. Rare is the artist to garner comparisons to Nina Simone, Chavela Vargas, and Cesaria Evora, but Buika has been compared to all of them. She has clearly inherited their steely independence and uncompromising creative vision....

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