Luis Salinas is an Argentine

Argentina

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 jazz guitarist who plays both electric and nylon string guitars. His music includes elements of bossa nova

Bossa nova

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, Brazilian samba

Samba

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, Afro-Uruguayan

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 candombe

Candombe

Candombe is a musical genre that has its roots in the African Bantu, and is proper of Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil .Uruguayan Candombe is the most practiced and spread internationally and has been recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity...

, salsa

Salsa music

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, boleros and jazz

Jazz

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He blends traditional South American musical forms with improvisational modern jazz.
Luis worked for Egle Martin, a well known Argentinean singer, dancer, and producer from 1985 to 1991 and played on her bossa-nova album "El Atre Del Encuentro." In 1993, Swedish pianist Anders Person invited Luis to play at the Umea Jazz festival, followed by a small tour of Sweden

Sweden

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. Luis was signed by the GRP Records

GRP Records

GRP Records is an American jazz record company, owned by Universal Music Group and operates through its Verve Music Group. The company's name has had different meanings. In its early days, it stood for "Grusin/Rosen Productions," after the founders...

 in 1995, and recorded his debut album Salinas for that label in March 1996 with various musicians from George Benson

George Benson

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's group. Luis played at the 30th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival

Montreux Jazz Festival

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. Judith Schlesinger writing in All Music Guide describes the track "Blue Zamba" on his debut album as "a lovely solo track that belongs squarely in the tradition of the great Latin acoustic players, but with a whiff of Joe Pass

Joe Pass

Joe Pass was an Italian-American jazz guitarist of Sicilian descent. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 20th century...

 as well. All told, a very promising debut."

On August 22, 1997 Luis Salinas played to 30,000 concert-goers at the "Palabra de Guitarra Latina" show in Palma de Mallorca

Palma de Mallorca

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, Spain

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. One week later, at the Guitarras del Mundo festival in Buenos Aires (August 26–31), Salinas was one of main attractions, playing three concerts at Buenos Aires' La Trastienda Club

La Trastienda Club

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His second album Solo Guitarra included a version of Stevie Wonder's "You Are the Sunshine of My Life."

Albums

• Salinas 1997
• Solo Guitarra 2001
• Rosario 2001
• Ahí Va 2003. Includes performances by Daniel Maza, Facundo Guevara, Sebastian Peycere, Jose Reynoso, and Reynald Colom.
• Musica Argentina 2003. Includes "Salgan" and "Despues".
• Luis Salinas y Amigos en Espana 2005
• Muchas Cosas 2006
• En Vivo 2009
• Sin Tiempo 2010