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Curtis Salgado has one of those voices — muscular, soulful, capable of holding a thousand-person room in absolute silence on a ballad and driving the dance floor apart thirty seconds later. Fifty years in, he remains one of the most distinctive and commanding presences in American music.
His sound draws from funk, soul, gospel, and R&B — absorbed from a childhood spent in the linen closet listening to his brother's records, at his mother's piano learning his first songs, and at his father's side discovering that Jess Stacy's solo on “Sing, Sing, Sing” changed what music could be.
The songwriting matches the voice. DownBeat praises his “impressive gift” as a songwriter. His originals sit alongside deep-cut covers of OV Wright, Clay Hammond, and Bobby Womack — artists he brings to rooms that have never heard of them, and makes them care.
Curtis Salgado saw Count Basie at 13 years old, turned to his father, and said: “This is what I want to do.” He has never wavered.
He learned racism through music — Count Basie couldn't walk through the front door of Carnegie Hall — and he learned history through the records his family stacked in every room of the house. By his early twenties he was playing harmonica in Eugene, Oregon, fronting The Nighthawks and co-leading the Robert Cray Band, fusing the five genres he'd inherited: funk, soul, gospel, R&B, and blues.
The recognition followed. Fourteen Blues Music Awards — including B.B. King Entertainer of the Year, multiple Soul Blues Male Artist awards, Soul Blues Album of the Year, and Song of the Year for “Walk a Mile in My Blues.” Every one earned under his own name, on his own records, with his own band.
The concert is open for all ages.
Age limit: All ages
Time: Doors at 18:00
Showtime 19:00
Cloakroom fee 3 € included in the ticket price.
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