Chico Chica

Chico Chica - Band Members' Biographies

Barbara Snow - flugelhorn/percussion/voice

Barbara attended the Royal Academy of Music. She has toured with countless artists including Paul Weller, The Blow Monkeys, Jools Holland, Carmel, Spiritualize and Maxi Priest. She led her own band Que Barbara! with which she recorded Lucky Star, an album of original latin-jazz songs and instrumentals. But it was the fifteen years spent with the legendary Roberto Pla Latin-Jazz Ensemble
that formed Barbara's musical identity. The band's busy worldwide touring schedule meant this was a very busy and formative time for her. She was busy with the latin-jazz club scene where she wrote and performed the club hit Timba which is still being played around Europe. By the end of the '90s, Barbara was working
with Hilary in the salsa band Candela. Barbara teaches piano at the Royal Russel School, Croydon.

Tom Hannah - guitar/voice

Tom's main focus has been on leading his own bands. He performed over 2,000 gigs alongside saxophonist Kelvin Cristiane. Tom Hannah's Agenda, like Chico Chica, played original and latin-influenced songs. The album Desolate Streams was recorded and released in 1996. A follow-up album was abandoned. Instead he
started Zeigon, a space-jazz/spoken word project and recorded the album Dogs Don't Have Uncles. He recorded an experimental solo guitar album called Tom Hannah Plays Post-Jazz Guitar. All the albums were followed by nation-wide tours. By 2008, he had written the words, story and music for the musical Out There! and
with the help of Hilary Cameron he recorded the show. In 2008 he founded and became director of The Memory Trust which promoted and measured the memorisation of classic verse. Tom teaches guitar at The London Oratory School, Platanos Academy, Graveney School and St James Independent School for Girls.

Hilary Cameron - piano/flute/voice

Hilary attended the Guildhall School of music and is a renowned Jazz pianist. In 2000, she went to New York to attend the Manhatten School of Music and it was here that she brought her piano playing and her whole jazz vision to new heights.
She has worked with countless other jazz bands led by Kelvin Christiane, Bob Stener and Clare Hirst. But is was with the The Hilary Cameron Trio, a vocal-led piano jazz band, where Hilary had her greatest successes on the London jazz scene. Hilary teaches piano at The Royal Russell School and Jazz piano and jazz
singing at the Guildhall School of Music.