Lizbeth Roman
« Lizbeth Roman is a Puerto Rican artist known for her musical and theatrical work. She is known for her histrionic and powerful performances and her ingenious way of playing with storytelling, performance and song. In her songs she captures the poetics of everyday life and fuses the bohemian with the alternative, rhythms of Caribbean folklore phone numbers in the philippines with feeling, blues, bossa nova, trova, rumba, among others, calling her style 'tropical cosmic folk'.
Her first production 'La otra ruta: Live at New York' was released in 2017 and was recorded live in 2016. Lizbeth Román has performed at festivals in New York (Loisaida Fest), Philadelphia, Cuba (Caribbean Festival), Austin, Texas SXSW (South By South West), Los Angeles, among others. She has also performed around the 78 municipalities in Puerto Rico with her independent tour 'La otra ruta'. » // Discover more on Spotify
Joe Louis
«Joe Louis is a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter who has developed a musical project that combines bolero, folklore, alternative rock, jíbaro, vocal improvisation and homosexuality. Joe Louis and the Oniric Band of the Red Door is a cabaret that explores sensuality, while embracing an unusual nostalgia and a melancholic essence, so present in a Caribbean that manages to survive in a cruel political and economic system. «Experimental bohemia», he calls it, clearly conveying an intersection between the art world and the nightlife of performance. The release of his first album, Lo Sagrado (December 2021), was celebrated with a concert at the iconic Teatro Victoria Espinosa in Santurce, Puerto Rico. With an interdisciplinary background in Journalism and Rico, Joe Louis is undoubtedly a Puerto Rican artist to watch.» // Discover more on Spotify.
Janice Maisonet
«Puerto Rican saxophonist, composer and producer. Janice Maisonet was the first female saxophonist to graduate from the Department of Jazz and Music of the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico in 2012. She has collaborated with artists such as: Maestro Cucco Peña, Tego Calderón, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Pedro Capó, Atención Atención, Ileana Cabra, Lenny Tavárez and others. In 2017 she won her first Grammy Award as a musician for Ile’s album “Ilevitable.”
In addition to this, she remains active playing and producing independent music with her projects ÉMINA and Galactic Tree, as well as collaborating with other artists in the music scene in and outside of Puerto Rico. In 2020, Janice was chosen as an artist of the prestigious Yamaha brand to represent them in Latin America and the Caribbean. Then, in 2021, she received a scholarship from the Chamber Music America organization as one of the “Jazz Female Leads” in the United States to be chosen to make a professional recording of her music. Janice Maisonet’s first album with “Galactic Tree” will be released soon.