Carlos Matos – Keys

Carlos is pianist, keyboardist, producer, arranger and composer. After graduating on both Classical music and World Music, he became a well respected artist around the globe  in different music genres Cape Verde (where his parent came from) as a producer, session player and conductor of the National Orchestra of Cape Verde. Latin-Jazz with the group Nueva Manteca, Rumbata and Timbazo. With the tango group Tango Extremo he toured in Russia and China and recorded the acclaimed album ‘The Mattheus Passion’ in Tango style. In 2005 he became a member of the blackgospelgroup Inside Out and since then has been active in the Dutch Christian music scene for Gerald Troost, Talitha Nawijn, Reni en Elisa, Orville and many others. In 2008 he founded along with percussionist Nils Fischer the group CaboCubaJazz where he mixes Afro-Cuban music with Capeverdean music and Jazz. With this band he has been touring around the globe (e.g. Canada, Cuba, Thailand, Malaysia, Germany)