Muriel Marco - keyboards, singer, composer
Innovative pianist MURIEL MARCO, embarked on a journey as young woman from Argentina to South Africa with the desire to explore and discover the roots of rhythm.
She studied at the University of Cape Town completing her degree in composition and arrangement with distinction in Ethnomusicology.
Muriel is also a founding member of TUCAN TUCAN and has written or co-written and co-arranged most Tucan Tucan's original music.
Muriel also creates jingles for radio stations and has experience in movie scoring having scored, together with Ghalik Jacobs, the music for "Confessions of a gambler" movie premiered in Dubai, North America and South Africa in 2008.
Muriel together with Ghalik Jacobs won the Golden Horn Award 2009 for the "best music composition" from the South African Film and Television Awards.
Muriel's silky voice can be heard in TUCAN TUCAN's latest release "Make a difference", in Lo Rez Electronic tango album "Hemisferio Sur" as well as in the "Hope for Aids" album. ‘Esa Morena’, composed by her and Frank Paco and sung in Spanish by Muriel, was chosen finalist in the International songwriting competition 2008.
Muriel has toured the United Arab Emirates with Blaze band , Nambia with Salsa band Carambola and Cuba libre and Tanzania, Zambia and Kenya with Tren Latino.
Visit my website: www.murielmarco.com