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Greg
Landau is an award-winning music/video producer, educator and
music historian with a doctorate from UC San Diego's prestigious School
of Communication. Over the last 15 years he has produced three Grammy
nominated CD's and
among the
over 50 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.
He has produced
a lot of local Bay Area groups recently such as Francisco Herrera,
Fuga, Sambada, The Creole Belles, Goodfeather, La Ventana, Manicato,
Carne Cruda and others. Currrently Greg is recording a new CD with Omar
Sosa and Susana Baca, featuring songs by the legendary Cuban singer,
Bola de Nieve. In March, he
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 togethor 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.
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 and the soundtrack
for Gomez
Peña's latest bus performance tour of the Mission. District.
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. He lived and worked in Nicaragua's Minsitry of Culture,
The Nicaraguan Community Radio Network and the Folkloric Research
Department where he did extensive research into Nicargua's folk music.
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
Maldita
Vecindad: El Pais
Omar Sosa: A Day Off II
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