1. Concha Buika was born on 11 May 1972, in Palma de Mallorca in Spain, the daughter of the late writer Juan Balboa and Honorina Buika.
12 Facts About Concha Buika
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Concha Buika's brother Guillermo "Guillem" Balboa was born in Equatorial Guinea and he is the current alcalde of Alaro, her brother Bore Buika is an actor who has worked on various TV series, such as Aida, El Secreto de Puente Viejo and Anclados, and in movies like Palmeras en la nieve, Villaviciosa de al lado and Senor, dame paciencia.
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Concha Buika has been compared to Nina Simone, Chavela Vargas, Cesaria Evora, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf, and Amy Winehouse.
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Concha Buika's largely self-produced seventh album, La Noche Mas Larga, recorded in New York City and Madrid, came out on 4 June 2013.
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Concha Buika continues to work on producing her first movie based on one of her poems, which is titled "From Solitude to Hell".
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Concha Buika is working on a novel, an opera and an exhibit featuring her photography and her son's artwork.
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Concha Buika has collaborated with musicians, music producers, Djs and singers in Spanish, Catalan, English, French and Portuguese, with artists such as Seal, Nelly Furtado, Anoushka Shankar, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Nitin Sawhney, Charles Aznavour, Jason Mraz, Martin Terefe, Apparatjik, Nino Josele, Mariza, Bebo and Chucho Valdes, Luz Casal, Ivan "Melon" Lewis, "Dizzy" Daniel Moorehead, Jose Luis Perales, Armando Manzanero, and Javier Limon amongst others.
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In 2019 Concha Buika collaborated with Carlos Santana, performing the single "Los Invisibles" in the Bube language.
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Concha Buika can be heard in the 2010 Angelina Jolie Shiseido Pasion Commercial.
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Concha Buika has performed all over the globe, including the United States, Latin America, Japan, most of Europe, the Balkans, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Africa, Argentina and Mexico in the last 12 months alone.
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Concha Buika has sometimes toured with a small ensemble, usually with guitar, bass guitar, trombone and cajon, as featured on the Buika Para Mi World tour 2017, or with a large orchestra with up to 52 orchestra musicians and 4 Jazz musicians 'Buika Symphonic Experience' where classical music meets Jazz, encouraging all classical musicians to improvise and creating an amazing experience to the audience.
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Concha Buika has not toured the United States since 2020 because of a judgment entered against her for moneys owed to her ex-management company All Parts Move.