BIOGRAPHY

Heritors and followers of Eduardo Saborit, one of the most important Cuban musicians and composers, Clave Azul Group is the outcome of his two grandsons` hugest wish to continue his work and keep on enhacing the popular Cuban music.

Halio Eduardo Avila, pianist and arranger and his brother Abel Avila Bello, percussionist, decided to start a musical project named "Clave Azul" precisely due to the fact that in the second half of the previous century, their grandfather founded in Camaguey -one of the Cuban central provinces- a trio named "La Clave Azul" (The Blue Clef), integrated by Teodoro Benemelis and Luis Raga.

Along ten years "La Clave Azul" Trio was a complete success, delighting an expert audience on real talents and gaining admiration, prestige and popularity in Cuba and some other latitudes.

Later on, Eduardo Saborit became a symbol of country music, placing important landmarks to our musical history and his family. For this reason, "Clave Azul" is founded as a Cuban musical group in 1998, directed by Helio Eduardo Avila and honoring Saborit as the author of the famous song "Cuba que linda es Cuba", approaching the Cuban traditional music and most of this prestigious author`s compositions.

"Clave Azul"`s team is conformed by young musicians from the National School of Art, and since their first presentations, they have called the attention of critics and specialists, precisely due to their selected repertory, where we can find boleros, songs, guarachas, sones, guajiras, cha cha chas, and some other genres, showing the versatility of these musicians. Their performances have been always appreciated by the auditory, exactly because they know very well how to combine the talent they have with the passion they show at every performance reaching a great scene domain.

Multiple performances at prestigious theaters and night clubs in Cuba, among which we can highlight the "Karl Marx", "America" and "Nacional" Theaters, and even the famous touristic center "Chan Chan" in Marina Hemingway, where they have been considered exclusive artists for two years and where they are always welcomed for tourists from different parts of the world, have been conforming this group's profile, adding the international tour they did for more than six months, they visited important cities in The Popular Republic of China and were acclaimed for thousands and thousands of people during their performances.

Nowadays, Clave Azul is part of Musicalia, ARTex' Artistic Representative Agency, starting a new stage where their international projection is wider and their national contracts are more intense, due to the quality they have showed just six years after the group foundation.

Professionalism, strength, passion for their great grandfather Eduardo Saborit, what exactly means passion for the history of Cuban music, are the hallmarks of Clave Azul, a group which is a spotlight also for the quality of each member and mainly because of their leader singer's voice, and the voices of two young and gifted Cuban women, who not only impressive vocal qualities, great lyrism and high aesthetic sense evincing a grandiose performing control.

To add more details we state that Clave Azul is inserted within the Cuban sonorous world, boasting a very personal tone distinguishing them from the rest of the Cuban groups and this is the reason why they set the difference and attract the attention of all those who watch their performances to finally stablish a grandiose affair with this group pervaded by its rhythms and deep enthusiasm. Their assessment as a high-profile line up is not casual, they insist on proving its definitely Cuban taste, do you doubt it?
Just ckeck it at any of their concerts.

Marianela Dufflar.