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"Her music has some of the most powerful rhythmic diversity I've ever heard, and on top of that, the words she has put to music are breathtakingly inspiring. She's a mix between Cesarea Evora and The Buena Vista Social Club with incredible spiritual depth... I make Latin music for a living and Leonor's CD Amame blew me away! There are 20 songs on the CD each with a different Latin roots rhythm and the backing musicians are awesome. The words that Leonor chose to set to music couldn't be more powerful and spiritually inspired!" KC Porter WorldBeat Productions (Producer - Santana/Ricky Martin/Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, etc..)


Daughter of musicians, wife of a musician, mother of musicians, she has made music, breathed music, lived music since early childhood but never made a living out of it. Born from Afro Colombian father and Amerindian mother in the valleys of the Andes in Central Colombia, educated in Bogotá and settled for the past 25 years in Cartagena on the Caribbean Coast, her music rightfully incarnates the rich tri-ethnic diversity of Colombia, the Caribbean and the whole of South America.
Discovered for international audiences by three time Grammy Award winner music producer KC Porter in 2001, she’s now into her second album of inspirational world music, Talisman, under KC’s Insignia Records label. Here again she sings Bahá’u’lláh’s Words in a variety of ethnic musical styles from the sacred drumming traditions of the Circum-Caribbean with a new tribalglobal sound.

 


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Evergreens of Colombian folk and popular music. Leonor and Istvan Dely’s self-produced album pays a very personal and intimate tribute to the unique diversity of Colombian music. Learn more and listen >>

 


New album coming up soon!

With husband Istvan and executive producer KC Porter, Leonor has just finished recording this new album of the Dely-Porter team: Ora Tambó (Pray Drum) in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

ORA TAMBÓ brings together prayers by Bahá’u’lláh and the Báb with the sacred African drumming traditions of Cuban Santería, Haitian Vodoun, Colombian Lumbalú, Puerto Rican Bomba, Bush Negro Winti and Brazilian Candomblé, as a universally viable way, along with other modes, of expressing the veneration of the sacred which lies at the very heart of every culture.


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