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Puente Celeste is a music band originated in 1997, in Buenos Aires, that performs both instrumental and vocal music. Its original proposal, cosmopolitan and yet profoundly Argentinean, combines in a natural way elements from the most different kinds of music around the globe, original themes and melodies, instruments from many cultures, solos and group improvisations, poetry, energy and sensitivity, complexity but also simplicity. Marcelo Moguilevsky clarinet, bass clarinet, harmonica, soprano sax, bag pipes and recorder. Luciano Dyzenchauz double bass, percussion and berimbao. Lucas Nikotián accordion, piano and flutes. Edgardo Cardozo guitar, requinto, accordion, cajón and voice. Santiago Vazquez percussion, berimbao,...

Celeste Mendoza, who was born in Santiago de Cuba, sang ballads with a convincing heft in her voice, a depth of emotion that made them work. But it was her singing of guaguancos, the music of the street rumbas, that made her famous. When she sang them -- a good example is her version of ''La Confianza,'' which she recorded with Bebo Valdes's orchestra -- the sadness in her voice and her smooth virtuosity mixed well. And they earned her a place in the history of the music: previously, guaguancos and rumbas were almost exclusively the territory of male singers....