“I was able to produce two amazing albums,” Rosado says. “They are very special because they came from a place of despair of what’s going to happen, I’ve got nothing to do, no work, nowhere to go to a place of hope for the future.” Rosado is no stranger to beating the odds. His music isn’t played on Latin commercial radio even though he has won two of the music industry’s biggest awards: a 2012 “Best Tropical Latin Album” Grammy for
Retro, which he recorded with his band, Marlow Rosado y La Riqueña, and a 2015 “Best Children’s Album” Latin Grammy for
Orun is a deeper, almost meditative recording and Rosado’s first Latin jazz album. (He interprets the Yoruba word as meaning a protective ancestral spirit.) The album also marks the first time the Puerto Rican musician has worked with Afro-Cuban jazz legend Chucho Valdés. The veteran musician is a guest artist on the track, “Marlow y Chucho,” which Rosado wrote.
“I was able to produce two amazing albums,” Rosado says. “They are very special because they came from a place of despair of what’s going to happen, I’ve got nothing to do, no work, nowhere to go to a place of hope for the future.”