Edmar Castañeda

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Start with Cuatro de Colores (2006) album — debut as leader

Bio

Edmar Castañeda is a Colombian jazz harpist, born March 31, 1978 in Bogotá, Colombia. The son of harpist Pavelid Castañeda, he began on the Andean/llanera harp as a boy and moved to the United States in the mid-1990s to study jazz at Five Towns College in New York, where he developed a technique that plays bass lines, harmony and melody simultaneously. He debuted as a leader in 2006 with Cuatro de Colores and has been a Latin Grammy nominee, collaborating with artists including Paquito D'Rivera, Béla Fleck and Antonio Sánchez.

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