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Ana Carla Maza, born in 1995, is a Cuban cellist and jazz singer, composer and producer.

Born in Havana, in the Bahia district, during the period when Wim Wenders was recording Buena Vista Social Club, Ana Carla Maza, singer and virtuoso musician. She t took her first steps on stage at the age of 10 In the Havana Jazz Plaza Festival and then continued to evolve internationally since. Ana Carla Maza was born on June 14, 1995 in Havana to a Chilean musician father, Carlos Maza, and a Cuban guitarist mother, Mirza Sierra.

At age 5, she began to play the piano, taught by pianist Miriam Valdes Daughter of Bebo Valdés. She grew up in Guanabacoa neighborhood of Havana where she lived with her grandparents and which happens to be the epicenter of the Latin rythms where musicians known as "rumberos," percussionists from the pure Afro-Caribbean tradition Lived."She started the cello at 8 years old and appeared on stage for the first time in Havana when she was barely 10 years old. In 2007, her family left Cuba for Spain.

At the age of 13, she began play with her father on his musical projects. Thus, she plays on two recordings that her father released in 2010, Carlos Maza en Familia and Quererte.

In 2012 she moved to Paris to study at the Conservatory of Music in the French capital. She continued her musical studies at the Paris Boulogne-Billancourt Higher Center for Artistic Education (PSPBB), branch of Sorbonne Universities, then embarked on a solo career, performing throughout all four corners of Europe in record time, meeting cellist Vincent Ségal at that period, who encourages her. In 2016, she released Solo Acoustic Concert, inspired by the musical traditions of her childhood, from Brazilian bossa nova to Cuban habanera and a broader musical vocabulary, and in 2020 she released La Flor, her first studio album. Both albums incorporate Latin rhythms, pop tunes, jazz harmonies and classical techniques. A new album, Bahía, was released in February 2022, a mixture of classical cello and voice, also drawing on Cuban sound, samba, bossa nova, tango, jazz and song. She has played on stage in festivals, including the Paris Jazz Festival, Souillac en Jazz and Jazz à la Villette. In 2023, a new studio album was produced, Caribe, which she recorded as a sextet.

Cellist, singer and composer Ana Carla Maza was born in 1995 in the Cuban capital – Havana. At the beginning of her career, the young performer, as befits the daughter of a musician, performed in a family jazz band under the direct supervision of the head of the family - pianist and composer Carlos Maza. For the first time, Ana Carla joined as a singer at the age of bearly four on her father's record Fidelidad. And at age ten, at the insistence of her father, she performed with solo cello on the stage of the Havana Jazz Festival Jazz Plaza. This is how she began her personal take-off towards the musical Olympus.

In 2009 Ana won two classical music competitions in Barcelona at the same time and won the Francesc Dagà special prize for the best interpretation. In 2010‑2011, as soloist of the European Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christian Florea, she gave several concerts in Spain with an interpretation of the music of Tchaikovsky and Saint-Saens. At the age of 17, Ana Carla continued her classical studies at the CRR Conservatory in Paris and later joined the Paris Higher Conservatory PSPBB and the Paris Sorbonne University in Musicology and Classical Interpretation on the cello, simultaneously developing the concept of fusion of genres. and experiments with Latin jazz, electronic pop music and Afro-Cuban folk art.

For the European listener, Ana's talent was discovered not only as a cellist, but also as a distinctive singer, by the ubiquitous musician, defender of multicultural values and master cello producer Vincent Ségal, who always had a exquisite taste and a remarkable intuition for talents. The concert program with which Ana Carla Maza and Vincent Ségal performed

in the summer of 2014 at the Jazz à Porquerolles festival included the full range of his melodies from classical to jazz. French director Frank Cassenti formulated his first impression of the young talent's music very clearly and vividly: "A moment of grace that touches the unspeakable, like witnessing the birth of a star. If Archie Shepp plays the music of the devil, then we can say that Ana Carla plays the music of angels, so much the emotion that she puts in each of her notes or in her voice carries us away. »

In 2015, after 4 months of touring zeniths throughout France with Jean Louis Aubert, Ana was accepted at the age of 19 for an artistic creation residency at the Cité des Arts in the Marais in Paris where she met artistic works of other cultures which will then inspire him for her music and her travels in Tunisia and Jordan.

It was at the Cité des Arts that Ana discovered Serge Gainsbourg, he too had lived at the Cité des Arts. Ana sung La Javanaise in these concerts and her way of singing it amazed the public and the press. At that time, she recorded solo cello music for the soundtracks of films such as Oka by Souleymann Cissé, music composed by Amine Bouhafa, presented at the Cannes Film Festival, or the film Underground Fragances by Peingfei Song, composed by Jean Christophe Onno, Venice price.

In 2015 she played at Jazz à Vienne in solo and duo with V.Ségal and met the great singer and composer Sting. An article published on Le Parisien on her participation in the ¨Cuba Libre with Ana Carla Maza¨ festival.

In 2016 and 2020, two albums by the the Cuban artist were published, a 2017 live performance – Solo Acoustic Concert – and the studio album La Flor with a release scheduled for June 19, 2020.

Ana Carla Maza collaborated as a cellist with the Compagnie Théâtre la Romette in the show HEN by Johanny Bert, nominated for the Molière 2020 in the Musical Theater category.

Currently she is composing film music and giving cello masterclasses in non-traditional styles. Ana Carla is very committed to defending the rights of artists, so in 2019 she created her label Persona Editorial Limited. His next album Bahía, a tribute to the Bahía of Havana, Cuba which was released in February 2022.

In 2023 she will release "Caribe " her first full band album. Published by her Label Persona Editorial Limited.


 * 2016 : Solo Acoustic Concert
 * 2020 : La Flor
 * 2022 : Bahia
 * 2023 : Caribe




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 * Jean-Baptiste Urbain, « Un été à Cuba avec la violoncelliste Ana Carla Maza », sur radiofrance.fr (France Musique), 1er juillet 2022 (consulté le 1er juillet 2022 )
 * Véronique Mortaigne, « Biographie : Bahia, Ana Carla Maza », sur jmp.fr (Jazz musiques productions), <time datetime="2022-02-25" class="nowrap" data-sort-value="2022-02-25">25 février 2022 <small style="line-height:1em;">(consulté le <time datetime="2022-07-04" class="nowrap" data-sort-value="2022-07-04">4 juillet 2022 )