Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Rooted in Rivera
MIGUEL ZENON tells Chris Searle why his latest album pays tribute to one of the great Puerto Rican singers
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“IT WASN'T until I started to write my own music and conceptualise what I wanted to do as a musician that I started to consider my musical roots,” says the beautifully fluid alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon.
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Born in San Juan in 1976 to music-loving parents, he was brought up in the capital’s largest housing project.
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