Eleonora Eubel

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the 11th of December 1951.
Fluent in Spanish, German, English and Portuguese.
Since her childhood she went to schools where German and Spanish were taught. She is the only child of María Elena Lus, a music teacher. Her father: Hans K. Eubel was a German immigrant who arrived in Argentina as a refugee at the beginning of World War II, and then returned to Argentina in 1948 attracted by a peaceful country, far from the consequences of war and bombing. At age 25 she met her first husband, a photographer and political activist, which had been arrested (He spent 4 years in jail) due to political reasons, Federico R. Frontini. In 1977 she moved with her husband from Buenos Aires to Bariloche in a sort of self exile. She had to postpone her musical career for a few years because of those reasons. She divorced in 1995 and met her present husband, Raúl Francés, in the same year. Her son Lucas Frontini, studies bass and contrabass. Nowadays she is performing songs whose lyrics are stories are about real people living in an underdeveloped Latin-America.

Acting and musical training:

Degree in Stage Design, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Two years at the Actors Training Studio directed by Martin Adjemian.
Singing, vocalization and interpretation with Lucy Savorido and Mariela Juni.
Piano lessons with Jorge Navarro and Guillermo Romero.

Musical career:

Eleonora Eubel started her carrier as a singer in various based rock & blues bands in Buenos Aires during the late seventies. Later, while living at the southern ski-resort of Bariloche, she got involved in the local Jazz scene and started including Jazz and pop material in her singing repertoire. At the time she worked with Luis Alberto Spinetta's keyboardist Diego Rapoport among others.Back in Buenos Aires she joined several Pop groups as singer and lyricist.
She has worked with several important musicians such as Tony Salvador, Walter Malossetti and Manuel Fraga, at concerts and jam sessions.Eleonora has also taken part in different projects of Latin-American music (Latin, Bossa and Bolero) with local masters Jorge López Ruiz and Aníbal Ponce.
In 1992 she joined the Fenix Jazz Band, well known locally for its Jazz interpretations since 1973. As lead vocalist she recorded the "Vol. 9" album and took part in the Connecticut Traditional Jazz Festival in the USA.Since 1993 she has been the lead vocalist of the Creole Jazz Band, created in 1967. She had weekly shows at the historic Café Tortoni, (from 1992 to 2001) and performed in the local club circuit, concerts and occasionally on TV shows.
She has been leading her own Jazz & Blues trio, The Eleonora Eubel + Trio, with Guillermo Bazzola on guitar, Fernando Galimany on acoustic bass and Diego Lutteral on drums. With these musicians she performed "From Billie Holiday to Natalie Cole" and "Espejos Negros" ("Black Mirrors").On October 3rd, 2000 she presented "Full Moon" the first album under her own name. Her main collaborator on the project is guitarist and fellow Argentinean Guillermo Bazzola, who did many of the arrangements. In widely varying ensemble contexts, Eubel offered an engaging menu of standards and originals, sung in English.
Accompanied by musicians of the new generation, on April 11, 2003 Eubel presented her second solo album called "Esthesia", (esthesia: opposed to anesthesia, capacity for sensation and feeling, the state of feeling, or of being sensible.) With songs composed by Eubel, Argentine reality became one more element of this project. This album has the support of Amnesty International.
Without leaving aside the interpretative freedom that Jazz, whether traditional or contemporary have provided, now she takes rhythms and sounds from the South American folklore to bring us her next recording project "Espejos de agua" (Water Mirrors), with Marcelo Gutfraind, on the guitar /Julián Montauti c./bass, Carto Brandán, drums, a guest, Mario Gusso, on the percussion and Eleonora on the vocals, melodica and composition.

Discography:

YANG - "Tu biología está rara" - DGC 203 /1987
FENIX JAZZ BAND - "Fenix Jazz Band, Vol.9" - R-2070/1992
CREOLE JAZZ BAND - "Creole Touch" - Epsa Music 16010/1994
CREOLE JAZZ BAND - "Sabor Creole" - Epsa Music 16050/ 1999
ELEONORA EUBEL - "Full Moon" - EU101/2000
ELEONORA EUBEL - "Esthesia" - EU102/2002
ELEONORA EUBEL - "Espejos de agua" - Pai Records/2007