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Biography
Yilian Cañizares is a Cuban and Swiss musician. She has lived in Switzerland since 2000.
Born in Havana, Yilian Cañizares began studying violin in her hometown, in the strictest tradition of the Russian violin school.
At the age of 14 she obtained a scholarship in Caracas and in 2000 she moved to Switzerland to complete her studies at the Freiburg Conservatory.
Soon after, the main orchestras in the area began to contact her and once settled in Lausanne, she collaborated for six years with different ensembles.
In Switzerland, she opened up to jazz and decided to embark on a new musical path, including singing in her career as a professional artist.
It was during this period that the artist decided to form a quartet with musicians from Germany, Venezuela and Switzerland (and later Cuba), and the group “Ochumare” was born, with which, just six months after its creation, in 2008, she won the prize of the Montreux Jazz Festival Competition.
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