Pedrito Martinez - Millennium Stage (April 6, 2023)

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Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: “Pedrito Martinez…is a source of rhythmic delight and inspiration…an incomparable performer…a traditional Afro-Cuban music superstar” -The New York Times
Pedro Pablo “Pedrito” Martinez was born in Havana, Cuba on Sept 12, 1973, in the Cayo Hueso neighborhood where rumba is played all day long. He began his musical career at the age of 11, with a foundation in the rumba and Afro-Cuban Yoruba traditions.
Since settling in New York City in the fall of 1998, Martinez has recorded or performed with Paul Simon, Wynton Marsalis, Paquito D’Rivera, Bruce Springsteen, Ruben Blades, Eddie Palmieri, Dave Matthews, and Sting. He has also contributed to well over 100 albums.
A consummate master of Afro-Cuban folkloric music and the batá drum, he is also the world’s first-call rumbero-playing, singing, and dancing with dozens of Cuban rumba groups.
Martinez was a founding member of the highly successful Afro-Cuban/Afro-Beat band Yerba Buena. With the band, he recorded two albums and toured the world in the mid-to-late 90s.
Martinez’s career as a leader began in 2005 in New York City with the formation of The Pedrito Martinez Group. He has recorded four solo albums, the first one of which was nominated for a Grammy® in 2013. The album was additionally chosen among NPR’s Favorite Albums for 2013 and among The Boston Globe Critics’ Top Ten Albums of the same year.

[@mmebigbaffe4326]

este bassistaaaaaaaaaaa amour toujours !

[@TJATJA1982]

Could listen to Pedrito for days

[@pauldecastro8921]

pedrito es muy original, tiene su propio estilo, y toca musica progesiva y moderna, buenisimo....

[@user-qu3em4iq3v]

Una maravilla de quinteto. Me recordaron a La Perfecta de Eddie Palmieri, Los Van Van, Irakere y NG la Banda. Sigan pa lante !!!

[@user-iy2cq1fw5z]

Al menos a Palmieri no se le parece en nada.

[@leonardovazquez5352]

Monster Band! pura candela.... impresionante show

[@mariacastro2984]

Tan bello eleggua te cuide siempre

[@user-iy2cq1fw5z]

Es definitivamente para las nuevas generaciones, yo me quedo con los veteranos.

[@pauldecastro8921]

TIENES que tener la mente abierta para la m,usica, no te puedes quedare en el pasado, yo admiro y gozo con los viejos vivos y muertos, esto es timba y latin jazz, very progressive, el vive en NY, Y TOC TODOS LOS ESTILOS DE LA MUsic cubna, es un maestro de verdad, lo he visto en vivo, es un musico completo....

[@tonispencer4980]

Grande, grande, grande, muy grande

[@isabelleleymarie2074]

Pedrito es un rumbero de primera!

[@michaellanda8980]

The best

[@terrencejenkins8347]

I was there. Great show!

[@biridrums]

Talento cubano ñooooo

[@bmuhamad]

As possibility, could be one's equalizer mix at home, or phone...

[@alexanderskjold9511]

Damn, the audio engineer must've had a rough day. The levels are so bad. :( cant even hear Pedritos amazing chops.

[@awoodcoc]

Sounds like they had the janitor in charge that day. This sounds like straight up booty and this is the Kennedy Center smh

[@cleoh08]

can barely hear the congas at all. very disappointing video.

[@anahiacuna7221]

❤

[@SuperAndress12]

hya lagun disco grabado en este formación de músicos?

[@enriquesosaoficial]

somebody tell the mixers we need congas. :(

[@aldomauricioable]

I think the congas are bad mic, too bad because Pedrito plays the congas amazing

[@Joseleocol]

That’s right. It shows from the first minute. Bad micd

[@daviddoyle3622]

I concure aldo. You gotta pick you sound man with the same care as picking your bass player or your drummer. It is crucial that he knows what you want or you're dead in the water.

[@daviddoyle3622]

Poor Pedrito is beating the shit out of those congas but they sound like cardboard or practice pads.

[@sebastiansalazar7026]

Lastima los ingenieros de sonido

[@elfula62]

el problema es que seguro eran americanos los sonidistas y no entienden hacer esa musica .. como mezclarla

[@SuperAndress12]

:v

[@arimquinto7217]

Increíbles músicos...pésimo ingeniero