Biography SON DOS Daisy Jopling (Great Britain): Violin, Voice Milagros Piñera Ibaceta (Cuba): Guitar, Voice, Percussion Milagros and Daisy met in Vienna in a band bringing musicians from latin, funk, jazz and classical music together. They were immediately ignited by each other's expertise in such contrasting, yet appealing styles of music. They shared a passion to develop into new styles and form their own, original sound. Daisy spent much of her childhood in Ireland soaking in the fiddle tunes from the local pubs; and while Mily studied percussion, guitar and singing, she discovered beautiful, unusual Cuban songs, and became inspired to write some of her own. SON DOS is the musical encounter of Cuba and Ireland, the sound of the Irish fiddle in the streets of Havanna, a Bolero at the riverside of the Themse. SON DOS is also the life in Vienna, with Rumba and English ballads in the air. Son Dos present contrasting programmes including original compositions as well as arrangements of traditional Cuban and Irish music. SON DOS have toured Belgium, Norway, Austria, Germany and Mexico, and have released their first CD „Mañana mi Amor with Extraplatte, www.extraplatte.at.       DAISY JOPLING Daisy Jopling was born in England in 1969. At the age of fourteen she made her concerto debut at the Royal Albert Hall in London. She studied with Itzhak Rashkovsky at the Royal College of Music, David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and Boris Kuschnir at the Vienna Konservatoire. In London she played in many varied ensembles, including the classical chamber music groups "Capricorn","Endymion" and the "Matrix Ensemble"; the contemporary music group "Mercia"; the West African band "Dunni"; and with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Daisy also recorded and performed with traditional Hungarian folk violinists in Transilvania and spent 3 months studying African Panlogo drumming in Ghana. In 1994 she moved to Vienna, where she founded the string trio "TRIOLOGY", with whom she has recorded the CDs "Triology plays Ennio Morricone" and "Who Killed the Viola Player?" on RCA Victor, Around the World in 77 minutes" with Extraplatte, and That's All Daisy Needs" with Wolfgang Muthspiel on Material Records. With Triology she has toured the world and arranged & recorded the Hans Zimmer film score for two Hollywood Dreamworks films, „El Dorado‰, with Tim Rice and Elton John, and Jim Brook's latest film "Spanglish", which was released on 12th December 2004. Triology have just performed in Mexico with Bobby McFerrin. In 2000 Daisy founded the duo "SON DOS" with the Cuban singer MILAGROS PIÑERA-IBACETA . Their first CD Mañana mi Amor" was released on Extraplatte in May 2003, and their new project with JON SASS the New York tubist will be on tour in Europe and USA in 2004/5. SON DOS & SASS -the sound of an Irish fiddle in the streets of Havanna intoxicated on New York jazz! In 2001 Daisy played a solo performance of her own music in the opening of the Vienna Town Festival, and the Danube festival in Austria, and wrote the film music for the Vienna documentary "Wien - Gesicht einer Stadt". In May 2005 she played a solo with Omara Portuondo in the Opening of the Vienna Festival.       MILAGROS PIÑERA IBACETA MILAGROS PIÑERA Celebrated singer and guitarist at many festivals in Cuba, Milagros, the daughter of a musician, was born in Cardenas Cuba in 1965. From a young age, music was her favorite form of expression. After her graduation from the "escuela nacional de instructores de arte" (la Havana) in singing, guitar and directing, she performed as a singer and guitarist at numerous festivals in Cuba. She taught music at the "casa de la cultura" at Limovar and Varadero. In 1988, her daughter Claudia was born. Since the mid-nineties, she has lived in Austria, where, at numerous events and festivals, she impresses the crowds as a lead singer and percussionist in different groups (among others "son rumberos", "sanmera"). At the same time, she is highly successful with solo projects in Viennese Clubs such as Porgy & Bess, roter Engel and Metropol. In the "falco a cyber show" she played the role of the "demon death" directed by Paulus Manker in the Ronacher establishment in Vienna. In summer 2000, she teamed up with Daisy Jopling : the duo "son dos" was born. Milagros continued to perform with different latin-formations and Austrian musicians at festivals and events (e.g. Jazz on Snow at Bad Gastein, Sunsplash Wiesen). In 2002, she started working on her first solo-CD, a collection of her own compositions which reflects the great variety of her music. Her extensive knowledge of afro-cuban music makes her a popular guest speaker at symposia and workshops. She took part at the opening ceremony of the Vienna Festival 2003, where she performed, as a solo singer, an impressive interpretation of "auscencia" (goran bregovic/cesaria evora). In 2005 she released „Leche Condensada", her first album with the hot Salsa band „Sanmera" „Milagros Pinera , the woman who perfectly conciles spirit and musical prowess Robert Urmann, Oberösterreichische Nachrichten