Yilian Cañizares
Born in Havana, Cuba in 1983, Yilian Cañizares is a jazz and world music
violinist, singer, composer, and percussionist of Cuban and Swiss descent. At
the age of seven, she began studying both percussion and the violin. She moved
to Caracas, Venezuela to attend the Academia Latinoamericana de Violin for three
years, and then completed her studies at the Freiburg Conservatory in
Switzerland. Although she was classically trained, she began to show an interest
in jazz. Once she finished her studies, she formed the Ochumare quartet and
released two albums with the group – Caminos (20...
