Ugi Agana

Ugi Agana is a multifaceted jazz drummer, percussionist, composer, mixing engineer and record producer. She is also the co-founder of the independent record label Agana Records.

Based in Los Angeles, Ugi has performed in various celebrated venues, including the San Jose Jazz Festival, Sam First, Churchill’s and the Whisky a Go Go. She has recorded with the Miami Symphony Orchestra and has played with innovative emerging voices of the NYC, LA and Miami scenes, such as guitarist Juan David Agana, altoist George Winstone and tenor player Christian Cummings.

She is currently producing, together with artistic partner Juan David Agana, the soon-to-be-released concept album Poemas de Alhelí. The project will include songs that present a paradigm-shifting fusion of salsa with jazz, rock and psychedelia, as well as four orchestral movements performed by the Miami Symphony Orchestra.

Her relentless pursuit of elegant phrases coupled with a ferociously elastic time-feel and an undeniable intuition for the avant-garde stand at the front of her musical identity.

Originally from Italy, where she was influenced from an early age by the works of some of the most distinguished musicians and writers of the past, Ugi has made her quest to shape compelling lyrical universes in the context of daringly sophisticated and unbound musical flights, striving to expand the modern-day musical landscape through her refreshingly uncharted artistic directions.