Luis Giménez Amorós

Luis Giménez Amorós is an artist from Spain.

Over the last two decades, Luis Gimenez Amoros has been performing internationally, both as a solo artist has released twelve albums and as a composer/performer with multiple artists from the World Music industry.

Luis Giménez Amorós started performing live at the age of 15 with local bands in his hometown Villena, Spain. During that time, he also toured around Spain with a story-telling company called Colorín Colorado. He moved to England at the age of 18 and started performing with world music artists such as Ahmed Muktar (Iraq), Chartwell Dutiro (Zimbabwe) and Mzungu Kichaa (Tanzania).

After his time in England, he went back to Spain where he established two bands – Dimeiwe (2005-2008) and Demachena (2009-2011) – releasing nine albums and touring throughout Europe and Africa.

In 2011, he moved to South Africa where he formed a new band called “Café con Leche” and performed with African artists such as Mariem Hassan (Western Sahara), Ramata Diakite (Mali) and Hope Masike (Zimbabwe).

From 2019 to 2020, he released two new albums entitled 'Middle Passage' and 'Pagoda Session'. Both albums are based on a musical journey from Spain to South Africa (Middle Passage) and a historical journey from Al-Andalus to Malaysia (Pagoda Session).

The international experience and musical influences during these two decades of performing are reflected in his albums and live performances.

Besides his artistic career, Luis has been an Ethnomusicology lecturer in various Universities and conducted interdisciplinary research in three different continents from which he published many academic articles, five documentaries and two academic books.