Toni Zenet presents his latest work "Todas las calles" (All the Streets) in Lanzarote

The singer and actor from Malaga, Toni Zenet, arrives in Lanzarote to present his latest album "Todas las calles" (All the Streets). A work with which he has obtained a Music Award, as the best fusion album in the ...

June 14 2011 (14:02 WEST)
Toni Zenet presents his latest work "Todas las calles" in Lanzarote
Toni Zenet presents his latest work "Todas las calles" in Lanzarote

The singer and actor from Malaga, Toni Zenet arrives in Lanzarote to present his latest album "Todas las calles" (All the Streets). A work with which he has obtained a Music Award, as the best fusion album in the XV edition of these awards.

The performance, in which he will be accompanied by Antonio Taboada's guitar, will take place next Saturday, June 18, at 11 p.m. in the Biosfera Hall in Arrecife. Tickets can be purchased at Tambo Bar, Callejón Liso, Pub Tsunami and Cafetería Biosfera.

In "Todas las calles" (All the Streets), Zenet merges the copla with the tango, the bossa nova, the salsa and the boleto, the swing and the jazz... sounds that are the result of the combination of all those rhythms that the multifaceted artist assimilated in his youth. As Zenet himself anticipates from this album that he will present in the Canary Islands, "it is a fusion that represents a return to the beginning". "My mother has fantastic tapes where I appear singing some flamenco things at the age of six. My first recordings date back thirty years, I'm older than the pesetas," he says humorously.

Then came the tangos of Roberto Goyeneche, the copla, Chavela Vargas... All that music that the young Zenet listened to at his grandmother's house, "on that giant radio that had such large round controls". At that time, the musical preferences of the man from Malaga went in other directions, he liked punk, funky and the music that teenagers listened to back then. "I rejected all the old genres, but over the years there has been an evolution and, after making three albums with the group Sur S. A. I returned to those paths," he explains.

His family tried to straighten out his life and the young Zenet studied arts and crafts and worked in a printing press and even in banking. "But then they realized that mine was art and they had no choice but to enroll me in the Conservatory of Malaga, and there I found my natural place," he recalls.

Zenet has always tried to make a living and has combined his artistic side with the most diverse jobs, selling encyclopedias or unloading containers, among other trades. One of those jobs, in Mallorca, changed his life. "There I did a cabaret-type show in the summer seasons, and with what I earned from unemployment I made several 'attacks' on Madrid, with one of which I hit the nail on the head."

Singer and performer

The musician refers to that winter he spent in the capital when Juan Antonio Bardem was casting for the series "The Young Picasso", a production for which he was selected. This work opened the doors of the seventh art, where he later worked in films such as "You Will Die in Chafarinas", by Pedro Olea; "The Law of the Border", by Adolfo Aristarain; "Iona Arrived with the Rain2, by Sergio Cabrera; "Mensaka", by Salvador García Ruiz, and "The Path of the English", by Antonio Banderas. In the film by the man from Malaga, in addition to making a cameo, Zenet collaborated in the selection of the young actors, since Banderas asked him for help to respond to the applicants during the tests.

In addition, he plans to premiere the short film "Las tacitas" (The Little Cups), based on a story by Benedetti and directed by Rafael García, starring the singer, who plays a blind man. And he has pending the premiere of the feature film "La mula" (The Mule), by Michael Radford, based on the homonymous work by Eslava Galán, with María Valverde and Mario Casas, and in which Zenet plays a colonel.

A facet, that of actor, that he has always developed in parallel with his work in the world of music, where his move to Madrid led him to shape the current musical project of Zenet. Understanding, chemistry and good work achieved throughout the concerts of the "Los mares de China" (The Seas of China) tour and which is demonstrated in the elegant and full-bodied sound of "Todas las calles" (All the Streets).

"We wanted the drive and freshness of the live performance, without the dictatorship of the clapperboard. So the essence of the album was made in three days, something that can only be done with these musicians", explains Zenet, who adds that "rehearsing is for cowards".

Before arriving in Lanzarote, Toni Zenet will also perform in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, on Friday the 17th.

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