Instruments Harmonica Education OCAD University Record label NorthernBlues Music | Website carlosdeljunco.com Genres Jazz, Blues Name Carlos Junco | |
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Role Musician · carlosdeljunco.com Albums Steady Movin’, Up and at 'em, Big Boy, Big Road Blues, Blues Mongrel, Just Your Fool Similar People Jimmy Bowskill, Colin Linden, Bruce Cockburn | ||
Carlos del junco hohner masters of the harmonica
Carlos del Junco (born May 17, 1958 Havana) is a Cuban-Canadian harmonica musician.
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Mr. del Junco immigrated with his family when he was one year old. He started to play the harmonica at 14. He graduated from college with honours at the Ontario College of Art majoring in sculpture.
He specializes in playing the ten-hole diatonic harmonica. He was taught to play chromatically by using an "overblow" technique taught to him by Howard Levy, a jazz virtuoso.
In the 1980s, Mr. del Junco performed with many bands including Latin/Reggae/R&B band "Eyelevel", "Ontario College of Art Swing Band" with Bill Grove and for six years with the rhythm and blues group "The Buzz Upshaw Band".
In 1990, he formed a blues/jazz/fusion band, "The Delcomos" with Kevin Cooke. He has also recorded with Marcel Aymar, Cassandra Vasik, Oliver Schroer, and Holly Cole.
In 1993, he won two gold medals at the Hohner World Harmonica Championship held in Trossingen, Germany. He was judged the world's best in both the diatonic blues category and the diatonic jazz category. In November of that year he released his first CD with Bill Kinnear (musician).
He is currently signed with Toronto's NorthernBlues Music.