Lautaro "LuKa" Bellucca (born January 4, 1986 in
La Plata
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,
Argentina
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) is a bass and double bassist, composer and arranger, best known as the key bassist in jazz group
MUSA's
MUSA's is a musical band led by piano/ keyboardist Martin "Musa" Musaubach. Members combination in MUSA's varies in different live shows.
While the band members' origins are from different countries, currently they are usually staying in Taipei, ...
.
About
LuKa has been learning and playing bass since the age of 12. At 14 he studied in EMU, a jazz musical school in La Plata, and started receiving lessons from bass masters like Karl Miklin and Herve Selin (Europe), Hugo Fattoruso (Uruguay), Pedro Aznar (Argentina), and Argentinean Bassist Alejandro “el zurdo” Herrera. By the age of 16, he was actively jamming in different
ivesessions in La Plata and
Buenos Aires.
Started his career as a professional musician playing in his own hard rock band Pelones,
in 2006, with his younger brother Joaquin Bellucca (flute and saxophone), band members Jose Antonio Centorbi (drums and hand percussion) and Juan Gascon (Electric and Acoustic Guitar), his jazz-folkloric band Lo Que Te Falta Quarteto won a contest in La Plata and later released an album under the name of the band.
In 2007, together with the band-leading pianist
Martin "Musa" Musaubach also from La Plata, LuKa travelled to
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
and started a new musical journey in another perspective. By 2011 he was playing with Musa, and drummer/ percussionist
Adriano "Gaofei" Moreira, in Shangri-La Summit Wing Hotel Beijing as house band MUSA's Trio.
[台灣壹週刊 Next Magazine Taiwan #581 (2012/07/12) - p.194 - 紅男綠女「音樂讓我們相遇 Sensation」]
In mid-summer 2011, accompanying Musa and Adriano, LuKa moved to
Taipei to join ''
Project SENSATION'' with the Malaysian Chinese vocalist
Gary Chaw
Gary Chaw (; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Tshâu Kak; born 9 July 1979 in Kota Belud, Sabah, Malaysia), also known as Gary Cao or Cao Ge or by his alter ego Cao Xiaoge, is a Malaysian Chinese singer-songwriter based in Taiwan, who has had achieved success in ...
and Taiwanese compose-producer Michael Tu.
His own group, LuKa Group had performed debut in October 2013.
Related artists and groups
* LuKa Group
* The Lifers (with Andrew Page and Cody Byassee)
* Olivia & The Fat Cats (with Olivia Berendsohn, Oren Dashti and Adam Sorensen)
*
MUSA's
MUSA's is a musical band led by piano/ keyboardist Martin "Musa" Musaubach. Members combination in MUSA's varies in different live shows.
While the band members' origins are from different countries, currently they are usually staying in Taipei, ...
*
SENSATION
External links
LuKa facebookMUSA's facebookDFM Jazz Club facebook (record label)
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bellucca, Lautaro
1986 births
Living people
Argentine composers
Jazz composers
Jazz arrangers
Jazz bandleaders
Latin jazz ensembles
Jazz double-bassists
Jazz bass guitarists
Funk musicians
21st-century double-bassists
21st-century bass guitarists