by the El Reportero’s news services
Singer, songwriter and actress Ximena Sariñana will be the special guest for Juanes the Colombian superstar during his US tour Loco de Amor.
Ximena is currently promoting her latest album No Todo Lo Puedes Dar and its first single Sin Ti No Puede Estar Tan Mal topped the radio charts. Her current single “Ruptura” is rapidly becoming a hit.
Her debut album Mediocre was Grammy and Latin Grammy nominee as well as earning gold status in Mexico. Rolling Stone Mexico gave Mediocre four stars and praised her debut as “one of the strongest in 2008”. In 2012 Ximena released her self-titled English album, which also reached gold certification.
Roberto Carlos and Carlos Santana to be honored at Billboard Latin Music Awards
The Billboard Latin Music Awards will recognize the outstanding contributions of two giants at this year’s ceremony. Brazilian singer/songwriter Roberto Carlos will receive the Billboard Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding career, and iconic guitarist Carlos Santana will be given the Spirit of Hope Award for his philanthropic and humanitarian contributions beyond his musical work.
Both artists also will perform at the awards ceremony, the longest-running and most prestigious awards show in the Latin music world, produced and broadcast live on Telemundo Thursday, April 30, at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT from BankUnited Center at the University of Miami in Florida.
Roberto Carlos, with a musical career that spans over 50 years and more than 120 million albums sold around the world, has certainly earned the distinction. As one of the top-selling Latin artists in the world, he continues to be relevant for his artistic and personal contributions.
In 2015, the Spirit of Hope Award will be granted to Carlos Santana for his lifelong devotion to social activism and humanitarian causes, and in particular for his work on behalf of children through his Milagro Foundation. Originally established by Carlos Santana and his family in 1998, the Milagro Foundation benefits underserved and vulnerable children around the world by making grants to community based tax-exempt organizations that work with children in the areas of education, health and the arts.
La Obra del Siglo, a filmic look at Cuba’’s nuclear project
La Obra del Siglo, Carlos Quintela’’s second film, opened in Havana this film marathon known as Muestra Joven, a melting pot of new generations of Cuban filmmakers.
The film was screened at the movies Chaplin as the centerpiece of the inauguration of the Film Festival, which recreated a vaccine clinic for physical and spiritual ills.
Three personal dramas are the pretext to reflect on dreams and destinies of what purported to be a nuclear city, in the Cuban southern town of Juraguá.
This community was part of the Soviet-Cuban project commissioned to build the first nuclear reactor in the Caribbean, an undertaken halted after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
“Muestra Joven has the aim to bring works which ignite the flames of discord and this film is one of them”, said the critic Dean Luis Reyes when presenting Quintela’s work.
Renowned actors like Mario Balmaseda, Mario Guerra, Manuel Porto and Jorge Molina, make up the cast of this award-winning movie in the Film Festivals of Toulouse and Rotterdam.
La Obra del Siglo marks Quintela’s return, following the success of La Piscina (2011), his debut feature awarded in various international events, including Marrakech International Film Festival.
