Okan is a Canadian Afro-Cuban jazz group, whose core members are Cuban Canadian musicians Elizabeth Rodriguez and Magdelys Savigne. They are most noted for their 2020 album Espiral, which won the Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2021, and their 2023 album Okantomi, which won the same award at the Juno Awards of 2024.
They were previously nominated in the same category at the Juno Awards of 2020 for their 2019 debut album Sombras.
Rodriguez and Savigne are both former members of Jane Bunnett's band Maqueque, who left that band in 2017 to form Okan. They perform both as a duo, and as leaders of a larger combo featuring session musicians.
Discography
Albums
- Sombras (2019)
- Espiral (2020)
- Okantomi (2023)
Extended Play
- Laberinto (2018)
Singles
- Luz (2018)
- Mas Que Nada (2019)
- Yemaya (Ile Ladde) with Rauzzy Ferrer (2022)
- Iglú (2023)
- La Reina Del Norte (2023)
- Okantomi (2023)
- Bailando en tu vibra with Ramon Chicharron (2024)
- + Que 1 Chingx with Boogát (2024)
Appearances
- AAA with Phosphore (2021)
- Toadas do Norte with Aline Morales and Anita Graciano (2021)
- Del Horizonte with Boogát (2024)
- Niebla with Ramon Chicharron (2024)
References
- ^ Roger Levesque, "Cuban-born Okan explores musical roots in Canada, Cam Neufeld traces Gypsy routes to the Far East". Edmonton Journal, January 16, 2020.
- Holly Gordon and Andrea Warner, "Here are the 2021 Juno Award winners". CBC Music, June 4, 2021.
- "Junos 2024: full list of winners". CBC Music, March 23, 2024.
- Melody Lau, "Alessia Cara and Tory Lanez lead the 2020 Juno nominations". CBC Music, January 28, 2019.
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