Leonardo Garcia

About Leonardo Garcia

Leonardo Garcia y Son Horizonte is an ensemble that was formed over 10 years ago to explore a wide variety of original compositions in Latin Jazz, original arrangements, and a wide variety of Salsa and Salsa Jazz; from the classics (salsa dura), including original salsa music of the band.

Leonardo and the band has been diving into its own productions and creations, along with songs from other members of the group, in the spirit of collaboration, to bring musical flare to the Salsa and Latin Jazz genre.

Leonardo was nominated and won the Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA) in November 2018 for the Latin category. Dominque Patrick Noel's composition, the percussionist in the group, was nominated for HMMA November 2019. Leonardo was recently nominated and won the 2019 FOX Music Awards (Premios Fox Music USA)

Leonardo and the band maintains a busy schedule recording a wide variety of projects; singles and albums. Leonardo released a Latin Jazz album in March 2018 and a salsa album titled Doce in March 2019.
Leonardo expects to release another salsa album in March 2020 along with a Latin Jazz album summer 2020.

Here are just a few of the highlights of performances of recent years-
The band has performed and accompanied many vocal guest artists over the years, recently Tito Puente Jr., Melina Leon May 2019, Aug 2019 Johnny Love and Van Lester
For the past 6+ years they have performed at The Richmond Salsa & Latin Jazz Festival.

2020- commencing in February, performing monthly at Maximon in Baltimore, Md.

Jan 2020- NAMMShow in Anaheim, CA

2019 Art on the Avenue festival; Alexandria, Va.