Wanda's Picks Radio Show Special with Omar Sosa

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!  Special Guests: Cuban composer and pianist Omar Sosa is one of the most versatile jazz artists on the scene today. He fuses a wide range of jazz, world music, and electronic elements with his native Afro-Cuban roots to create a fresh and original urban sound – all with a Latin jazz heart. Omar Sosa’s musical trajectory has taken him from Camagüey and Havana to touring in Angola, the Congo, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua in the 1980s; to a sojourn in the African-descent communities of Ecuador in the early 1990s; to an extended presence on the San Francisco Bay Area Latin jazz scene; to his current engagement with artists from France, Cuba, Brazil, and several North, West, and East African nations. https://omarsosa.com/short_biography/ Omar joins us to talk about his date, Sept. 16 @ SFJAZZ: Motherland Journey w/SCULPTOR-PAINTER GITHINJI WA'MBIRE & DRUMMER AMAURY ACOSTA.  Githinji Wa'mbire joins us too.  https://www.sfjazz.org/tickets/productions/omar-sosa-motherland-journey/