The legendary Aurora Flores: A break-through Renaissance Woman and Salsa music Historian
About Aura Flores: Aurora Flores
bandleader, author, and "badass" performer
A Latin from Manhattan, Aurora is a BMI composer, producer, educator & entrepreneur, the recipient of numerous awards and included in Who's Who in Hispanic America.
A published author and journalist she broke barriers as the first woman music correspondent for Billboard Magazine while still attending Columbia University. Her name appears on hundreds of Latin music liner notes and thousands of articles on music, culture, community, and politics over mainstream newspapers, magazines, and media outlets.
As a BMI composer she writes original music for the Nickelodeon' hit series "Dora the Explorer," and for orchestra Zon del Barrio which she leads and directs performing from New York to the Caribbean to France's Cotes d'Azur. A play on the words "son" a musical genre found throughout the Islands and U.S. barrio "zones" where people of colorwork and struggle hard only to party just as hard —Zon del Barrio is NOT your average grandma's "salsa" group. Zon del Barrio is the intergenerational, creative, and co-ed sound of Latin music genres from the mean streets of El Barrio and the Bronx. The big band expresses her own original songs from a political and women's focus as well as the virtuoso music from the streets of Latin NY that she so misses from the scene today.
Aurora can be seen over many documentaries on Latin music, has written for the WNET Latino American series, lectures at colleges and universities, and conducts cultural tours of East Harlem for students and corporate organizations.
A break-through renaissance woman, Aurora is an entrepreneurial publicist & award-winning media consultant, writer, and producer. She founded Aurora Communications in 1988 producing national music, culture, and health events from community block parties to sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden as well as providing corporate public relations to various Fortune 500 companies and political campaigns.
www.aurora-communications.com