Orlando Valle "Maraca"
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Orlando Valle (Havana, September 5, 1966) is a Cuban flutist, arranger, composer and director, who continues to explore the roots of the island's music, adding modernity, and always influenced by Jazz and salsa, with the willingness to spread and defend this music internationally.
Coming from a family of musicians, he has studied flute since he was 10 years old at the Manuel Saumell and Amadeo Roldán conservatories, and enters the Higher Institute of Art of Havana, ISA. Because of his physique, being very skinny with a bald “Afro”, he was given the nickname “Maraca”.
He is a flutist, composer and arranger, possessor of a brilliant, rich, surprising style.
Maraca enjoys international recognition and acquires a great musical maturity that leads him to leave Irakere in 1994 and create his own group Otra Visión in 1995, in homage to Emiliano Salvador whose first album was titled Nueva Visión.
With “Maraca y Otra Visión”, called some years later also “Maraca Salsa; Latin Jazz band”, Maraca tours extensively the most important jazz, Latin music and World-music festivals and venues in Europe, Canada, the United States, Africa and Latin America. Due to the success of his group, he returns several times in their programming.
His energetic performances on stage; his sense of spectacle; the intense communication and the fusion achieved with the different audiences; the musicality and variety of genres in his repertoire are celebrated and applauded by the most demanding international critics and contribute to the fame of this very creative artist and to the unique character of his group.