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Greg
Landau is an award-winning music/video producer, educator and
music historian. He produced three Grammy nominated CD's and
among the
over 30 CDs,
film sound tracks and videos. He has worked with reknowned artists
including: Patato Valdes, Buena Vista Social Club's Juan de Marcos
Gonzalez, Susan Baca, Bobi Cespedes, Dr. Loco, Pete Seeger, Omar Sosa,
John Santos, Pancho Quinto, Quetzal, Los Mocosos, Maldita
Vecindad and
David Byrne's record label Luaka Bop, Vanguard Records, Six Degrees and
many others.
Greg just
finished recording and producing a series of three CD's with Peruvian
singer Susana Baca. This project represents a new phase in Baca's
career as togethro they explored the deep roots of Peruvian popular
music and the poetry of the revolutionary movements of the 1970's.
Recently
Greg Landau, Babatunde Lea, and John Greenham composed and produced
"The African Diaspora
Suite" for a permanent installation in the newly built Museum of the
African Diaspora in San Francisco. He is currently working with
Cuban pianist Omar Sosa, composing
and producing the film score for the film "The Judge and the General",
which will air this April 2008 on PBS. He is currently producing
a CD
in Mexico for the
acclaimed Mexican rock band, Maldita Vecindad, Brazilian group,
Sambada, as well as Mexican singer/songwriter Arturo Ortega.
Recently he collaborated with performance artist Guillermo Gomez
Peña and video artist Gustavo Vasquez on a video to be premiered
at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. In his spare time he is
the Executive Producer for Marc Bamuthi Joseph's "History of Hip Hop
Theater" book and DVD.
During the
1980's he toured
internationally as a guitarist and tresero with the
reknowed Nicaraguan Nueva Cancion group, Luis Enrique Mejia
Godoy and Mancotal, and shared stages with Silvio Rodriguez, Pablo
Milanes, Mercedes Sosa, Chico Buarque, Amparo Ochoa and Nicomedes Santa
Cruz in music festivals and concerts all over Latin America and Europe.
Over the last
two decades, Greg has worked extensively with
Oscar winning filmaker Haskell Wexler and with his father, Saul Landau
making documentary films in Latin
America. He has also done extensive cultural research in Latin America
and has recieved a doctorate in Communication from the prestigious
University of California, San Diego.
Greg Landau is a
multi-faceted artist who has worked in many areas of
media production from broadcast media to web-based streaming video and
computer telephony. His production credits include work for PBS,
Disney, Sony, Warner Bros., CNN, Lucas Film, Six Degrees Records,
McDonald's and StarMedia. As Executive Producer at Starmedia, he
has produced
videos with Christina
Aguilera, Carlos Santana, Los Lobos, Sub-Comandante Marcos and many
others.
Greg currently
teaches at the University of California at Santa Cruz and San
Francisco City College. In addition, he also continues his
professional work producing
music and videos while pursuing reseach about the role of music in
contemporary societies.
Currently in
production:
Susana Baca
Fuga
Los Cojolites
Amnesia
Guillermo Gomez Pena and Gustavo Vasquez video
Latino; The Director's Cut with Haskell Wexler
Arturo Ortega
y
Teoria Hibrida: Mexican
Rock
Maldita
Vecindad: El Pais
Omar Sosa: A Day Off II
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