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Titi Robin Quintet

From France

Titi Robin Quintet are:Titi Robin - guitar-ud-buzuqPepito Montealegre - canteFrancis Varis - accordionKalou Stalin - bassZe Luis Nascimento - percussionsTiti Robin Biography:A career spanning 20 years, 600 live performances, quite 100,000 records sold.Thierry Robin is a self-taught musician born at the end of the Fifties in the West of France. He built his personal musical universe by borrowing instinctively from various musical sources: India, North Africa, his two main sources of influence being the Gypsy and Eastern cultures.These two communities welcomed him warmly, the French mainstream music world not understanding his approach at the time. Community celebrations were a way for him to test the validity of his original approach of music, taking his inspiration from these strong traditions without ever simply copying them. His two main masters at the time are flamenco “cantaor” Camaron de la Isla and Iraqi ‘oud master Munir Bachir.Thierry “Titi” Robin is a special artist. “World music” is a category he does not accept. Combining music from different parts of the world has no value in itself, but represents a reality, his reality. The main point is to find the best way to translate the feeling at the heart of creation and the artistic form that can express it, be it in a purely traditional style or by transforming established codes.Thierry “Titi” Robin chose to follow his own personal road, with a constant and authenticity.