Andy Santana
Biography
Andy Santana, following his grandfather and father poet, composer & musician careers, at age of 16 started his music career in the Martha Abréu Conservatory in Villa Clara City playing the bass.
After 3 years, he graduated and became part of a famous local band called “Aceituna sin Hueso” which was a mixture of oriental, flamenco & Latin music. After a year, he covered for 3 months the bass in “Moneda Dura”, a band of seven Cuban musicians with a more commercial style.
In 2004 he moved to Mexico City, being part of David Torrens’band. Later, he went back to Cuba & with other musicians created the band “Habana en Clave”, a Cuban Latin concept. The band was fast hired by a London famous Latin restaurant & bar, “El Floridita” from 2006 to 2009. Then in winter 2009, the band was hired & they moved to Beijing to play in “Casa Latina”. After the end of the agreement, Andy decided to stay in China.
He saw a lot of musical opportunities and since then, he has been playing with different musicians from around the World in different cities of China. He plays bass, guitar, drums, piano & sings. His aims are Latin music, Jazz and Latin Jazz. Andy Santana right now lives in Shanghai, working for TV recording, huge events, and tours.
http://www.andysantanabass.com
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Gear
LS648 #429
WJB-330
I’m so glad to find this bass! It’s very easy to play, elegant, lovely, and with a very good sound. I think one of my better skills, or what I like more is the slap style. With this bass, I really improve it much more! Also, I feel it so easy each time I play no matter what, for example, pop, jazz, rock, or Latin. It’s like my hands and the bass really understand each other and they go alone!
It is my pleasure to show you this bass, because in my experience when I got this bass in my hands I start to improve all the new techniques, that I’m getting now, after years of playing bass.