Kepa Junkera Urraza (born 1965 in

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) is a

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musician and composer. A master of the

trikitixa The trikiti ( standard Basque, pronounced ) trikitixa ( dialectal Basque, pronounced ), or eskusoinu txiki ("little hand-sound", pronounced )) is a two-row Basque diatonic button accordion with right-hand rows keyed a fifth apart and twelve un ...

, the diatonic accordion, he has recorded more than 10 albums.

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/ref> Junkera won the

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in 2004 for his album ''K''.

Discography

Albums *'' Infernuko Auspoa'' - Kepa, Zabaleta eta Motriku (1986) *'' Triki Up'' - Kepa, Zabaleta eta Imanol (1990) *'' Trikitixa Zoom'' (1991) *'' Trans-Europe Diatonique'' - Kepa Junkera, John Kirkpatrick and

Riccardo Tesi Riccardo Tesi (; born 1956 in Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy) is an Italian musician. He specializes in folk music. His instrument is the diatonic accordion or melodeon. He has founded or recorded with a number of groups, including Banditaliana an ...

(1993) *'' Kalejira Al-buk'' (1994) *'' Lau Eskutara'' - Kepa Junkera and

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(1995) *'' Leonen Orroak'' - Kepa Junkera and

Ibon Koteron Ibon Koteron (born in Bilbao in 1967) is a Basque musician renowned as a player of the alboka. His 1996 debut release was a joint record with Kepa Junkera, entitled '' Leonen Orroak'' (''the roarings of Leon'', a homage to the great ''albokalari'' ...

(1996) *'' Bilbao 00:00h'' (1998)

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*'' Tricky!'' (2000) *'' Maren'' (2001) *'' K'' (2003) *''

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'' (2004) *''

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'' (2006) *''Etxea'' (2008) *''Fandango - Provença Sessions'' (2009) *''Kalea'' (2009) *''Fandango - Habana Sessions'' (2010) *''Beti Bizi'' (2010) *''Herria'' (2010) *''Ultramarinos & Coloniales'' (2011) *''Ipar Haizea'' Kepa Junkera with the ''Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi'' (2011) *''Galiza'' (2013) *”Kepa Junkera & Sorginak – Trikitixaren historia txiki bat/Una pequeña historia de la trikitixa (2014) *''Kepa Junkera & Sorginak – Maletak'' (2016) *''Kepa Junkera - Fok'' (2017)

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Junkera, Kepa 1965 births Living people Basque musicians Spanish accordionists Latin Grammy Award winners People from Bilbao