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We have a hunger of the mind, which asks for knowledge of all around
us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see,
the more we are capable of seeing.
-- Maria Mitchell
We owe almost all of our knowledge not to those who have agreed,
but to those who have differed.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
How do you describe the flavor of a mango to someone who has
never tried one?
--Wayne Dyer
Don’t try to describe the ocean if you’ve never seen it.
--Jimmy Buffett
I heard a lot of people play some really good songs. The
difference was, I never heard Hugo Duarte play a bad one.
-- A Hugo Duarte fan
Someone once asked friend and house concert host, Jeanne Combo, to
describe my music and here’s what she had to say:
Trying to define Hugo Duarte’s music is a bit like trying to define
good Cuban food to someone who’s never experienced its satisfying,
mouth-watering sensations. Throw in a creamy, caramel colored flan
for dessert; top it all off with shot of kick-in-the pants,
revive-the-dead Café Cubano, and there you have it. |
Like good Cuban food, Hugo’s music is a combination of a little bit
of this, a little bit of that, and a whole lot of down-to-earth
ingredients that come together in an adventure of the senses. You
can’t really describe it; you just have to try it in order to
understand and appreciate the flavors and
subtleties of whatever it is that you've just been presented.”
Such are the elements of this remarkably talented
Singer/songwriter/
storyteller. Duarte blends of a bit of Country, a pinch of
Bluegrass, a handful of Southern rock, a cup or two of Blues, a dash
of Island music, occasionally sprinkled with some American history,
or tales of the sea, to form an eclectic style that doesn’t fit into
the traditional definitions of the Rock and Roll world, the
Tropic/Island sound, Blues, Country or any other particular genre.
Born of Cuban, Chinese, and Scotts-Irish ancestry, Duarte’s music
is as diverse as his origins.
His early childhood years were spent in Tigerville, South Carolina,
an extremely small community in the foothills of the Blue Ridge
Mountains. It was there he came to understand the basics of life in
that close-knit, rural community where life was simple, where
everyone’s parents parented everyone else’s kids, and music and song
were an integral part of everyday life.
Somewhere along the line, Hugo’s family moved to North Carolina
where Duarte’s musical influences drifted away from the native
Bluegrass and traditional country music that had been so much a part
of his life and began to take a new direction. He began to focus on
the Allman Brothers, the Marshall Tucker Band, Poco, the Eagles,
Billy Joel, Elton John, Pure Prairie League, the Outlaws, Loggins
and Messina, and many others. And that focus didn’t stop there. It
also included Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, Crosby, Stills and Nash,
Led Zeppelin, Glen Miller, John Phillip Sousa, Aaron Copeland, and
other equally divergent styles. |
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