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Cantinero is Christopher Hicken, a British born NY based singer-songwriter/composer who makes lovingly crafted alt/folk-pop. Witty, incisive and coolly melodramatic, Instantly hummable pop song’s, meet keenly observed insights that chronicle the complicated world we live in. Set to live instrumentation with subtle electronic and organic textures.
“Championship Boxing”, the critically acclaimed Artems/V2 Records debut, hit Top 40 on Amazon.com and Top 20 on the CMJ/Triple A Radio , was featured on National Public Radio’s “All Songs Considered” and earned an 11 minute special on NPR’s “Weekend Edition”, which drew an audience of over eight million. MTV played the video multiple times.
New album “Better For The Metaphor”, was recorded over an 18 month period after a move from NYC to a rural, secluded log cabin in the Catskill Mountains. Producing the record himself, the album features a wealth of studio and touring musicians who had previously worked with everyone from Frank Sinatra and Stevie Wonder to James Brown, Lambchop and Britney Spears.
Prior to his solo career, the native of Birmingham, England, arrived in America in 1993 with the Alternative-Rock group Bigmouth. When the group dissolved, Hicken spent seven years working as a bartender (hence the moniker “Cantinero,” a nickname bestowed on him by a Spanish co-worker) before deciding to give music another try .
Cantinero is Christopher Hicken, a British born NY based singer-songwriter/composer who makes lovingly crafted alt/folk-pop. Witty, incisive and coolly melodramatic, Instantly hummable pop song’s, meet keenly observed insights that chronicle the complicated world we live in. Set to live instrumentation with subtle electronic and organic textures.
“Championship Boxing”, the critically acclaimed Artems/V2 Records debut, hit Top 40 on Amazon.com and Top 20 on the CMJ/Triple A Radio , was featured on National Public Radio’s “All Songs Considered” and earned an 11 minute special on NPR’s “Weekend Edition”, which drew an audience of over eight million. MTV played the video multiple times.
New album “Better For The Metaphor”, was recorded over an 18 month period after a move from NYC to a rural, secluded log cabin in the Catskill Mountains. Producing the record himself, the album features a wealth of studio and touring musicians who had previously worked with everyone from Frank Sinatra and Stevie Wonder to James Brown, Lambchop and Britney Spears.
Prior to his solo career, the native of Birmingham, England, arrived in America in 1993 with the Alternative-Rock group Bigmouth. When the group dissolved, Hicken spent seven years working as a bartender (hence the moniker “Cantinero,” a nickname bestowed on him by a Spanish co-worker) before deciding to give music another try .
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| FULL TRACK GO GETTER | 3:09 |
| FULL TRACK Goodbye Life | 2:24 |
| FULL TRACK Lights Went Out | 3:49 |
| FULL TRACK Medicated | 3:30 |
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Happy New Year - It’s a Long Way Home…
2 Jan 2010 | from cantinero.com/news
Hello and stuff.
So it’s the end of another decade, an eventful one to say the
least. Here’s “Long Way Home,” a Cantinero song that I think
pretty much sums it up.
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luchi01, samcrown34 and roberinho added Cantinero to their libraries. October 2011
- Cantinero posted a news item ‘Cantinero Live at Canadian Music-Fest 09’. May 2011
- Cantinero posted a news item ‘Better For The Metaphor - NPR best CDs of 2008!’. May 2011
- Cantinero posted a news item ‘Plasticine - A new song for summer.’. May 2011
- Cantinero posted a news item ‘Better For The Metaphor CD released and Obama won !!’. May 2011
- Cantinero posted a news item ‘Cantinero Update + New Shows + Huffington Post Blog-Song’. May 2011
- Cantinero posted a news item ‘No Apologies, a song for the writers strike’. May 2011
- Cantinero posted a news item ‘Moving out from the middle of the woods....’. May 2011
- Cantinero posted a news item ‘You can get a signed copy of my first CD, Championship Boxing’. May 2011
- Cantinero posted a news item ‘Of Course in those days.....,’. May 2011
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