Jurandir Santana is a Bahian guitarist born in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Instrumentalist, composer and musical director, he has dedicated his 25-year musical career to the interpretation, research and dissemination of Brazilian music. His long career has allowed him to assimilate a deep knowledge of Brazilian musical complexity through the creation, search and discovery of new sounds and rhythms. His alliance with music surprised him when he was ten years old, and since then he has accumulated a great background, which he has been able to transmit and apply in his tours around the world and in his activity as a workshop teacher, for which he has developed a plan highly respected and valued study.

As a professor, he has been invited to transmit his musical experience in some of the most famous music schools in the world: Berklee College of Music in Boston (USA), Western Illinois University (USA), and at events of the Curitiba Music Office or the African Marketplace, an important African music festival in Los Angeles (USA).

There is a milestone in his career as an instrumentalist and soloist: the collaboration in 2003 with the well-known American bassist Matt Fergusson and with the singer Ithamara Koorax, (chosen by Downbeat magazine as one of the three best jazz singers in the world). In 2006, Jurandir Santana released his first album “Só Brasil”, a project that was the result of two decades of musical research, which provides a new sound and reveals unexpected nuances in music Brazilian. With this work he traveled carrying his music for three years in Brazil, Spain, Italy, Portugal and the USA.

In parallel, he carried out works as musical director or guitarist for artists who also express themselves in the key of regional rhythm, such as Mariene de Castro, Armandinho Macedo and Roberto Mendes. In 2012, he decided to move to Barcelona in order to absorb new musical information, as well as exchange and mix rhythms. In 2015 he released his follow-up album "Um Segundo", for which he added to his instrumental proposal his facet as singer and lyricist.

Throughout his career he has had the honor of working alongside musicians and great artists such as: Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Daniela Mercury, Jaques Morelenbaum, Rosa Passos, Seamus Blake, Mariene de Castro, Fabiana Cozza, Xangai, Toninho Horta, Fredrik Nooren, Nelson Veras, Nelson Ayres, Chico Pinheiro and Filó Machado.

A recognized musician in the Brazilian market with a solid career, Jurandir Santana has reached a deserved place on the international scene, thanks to his work that has made him a prestigious musician in Europe and America. In November 2018 he will start a new tour with saxophonist Seamus Blake, in the "Seamus Blake Brazilian Quartet".

His partnership with singer Carme Canela both live and in the studio show us several magical moments in passionate duets voice/guitar around the most recognizable Brazilian songbook as shows his 2021 album "Celebrating 'La Fusa'."

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