User:Alossola/Magalí Datzira

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Magalí Datzira Salas (* 1997 in Barcelona) is a Spanish jazz bassist, singer and songwriter.

Education
Datzìra started to learn the upright bass at the age of seven at the municipal music school Escola Municipal de Música de Sant Andreu. At that venue, Joan Chamorro introduced her to jazz in his Sant Andreu Jazz Band, and she also began to sing. Still in highschool, she obtained a stipend as a jazz singer to participate in a preparatory year at the Conservatori del Liceu in her home town (2013-2014). She studied for Bachelor degree at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya. This included one year at Conservatorium van Amsterdam. In Amsterdam, she also performed as a trio with Michael Moore und Rogerio Bicudo.

Performances
From 2009 to 2017, Datzira participated in numerous CDs of Sant Andreu Jazz Band, accompanying guest stars like Scott Hamilton, Scott Robinson, John Allred, Joel Frahm, Joe Magnarelli and Perico Sambeat. The second CD-DVD, Jazzing 2, saw her debut as a singer (age 13), in addition to playing the double bass. On the CD Joan Chamorro presenta la Màgia de la Veu (2015; Jazz to Jazz) she performed together with Andrea Motis, Eva Fernández and Rita Payés. In 2014, Chamorro presented her debut CD Joan Chamorro presenta Magalí Datzíra with Sant Andreu Jazz Band and guests, including Robinson and Sambeat.

In 2016, Datzíra played in Toni Xuclàs Album De poetes, cançonetes. 2020 and 2021, she published a few singles and one EP. . She performed in Ciudad de Mexico with her own quartet at the Festival Internacional de Jazz de Polanco (December, 2017 and December, 2022). In August, 2018, she had a concert at Auvernier Jazz Festival in Switzerland. 2019, she presented her own quintet including her brother Iscle Datzira (saxophone) in Barcelona.

2023, Datzira published her first full album exclusively from her own compositions, Des de la cuina. One review concludes that she definitely "follows her own path."

Discography (selection)

 * Joan Chamorro presenta Magali Datzíra (with Ignasi Terraza, Josep Traver, Esteve Pi, Josep M. Farràs, Víctor Correa, Scott Robinson, Perico Sambeat, Curro Gálvez, Sant Andreu Jazz Band) (2014, Jazz to Jazz)
 * Fruites (2020)
 * Better To The Top (2020)
 * Sad & Bad (2020)
 * Casida de la Rosa  (2021)
 * </3 (2021)
 * Des de La Cuina (2023)

Collaborations

 * Toni Xuclà: De Poetes, Cançonetes (2016, Picap S.L)
 * Various: Jamaicat - Jamaican Sounds From Catalonia Vol. 2 (2022, Liquidator Music)
 * Jazzing 12 vol. 2 (with Sant Andreu Jazz Band) (2022, Temps Record)
 * Joan Chamorro Presenta's Big Band (with Sant Andreu Jazz Band) (2022, Jazz To Jazz)

Weblinks

 * Magali Datzira at Allmusic
 * Magali Datzíra on Facebook
 * Magalí Datzira at Fresh Sound

Category:1997 births Category:Living people Category:Women jazz composers Category:Jazz double-bassists Category:Musicians from Barcelona Category:Spanish jazz singers Category:21st-century Spanish singers