The talented actress and singer surprises with ranchera music
by the El Reportero’s news services
The renowned and talented vocalist and actress Raquenel releases a new and simple video “If You Don’t Like What I Am” at the mariachi beat.
After a successful career in the world of music, theater and television, Raquenel, María Raquenel, whose real name is María Raquenel Portillo Jiménez, ventures into the genre with her single that premiered on Sept. 4 on all digital platforms.
Characterized by its unique vocal skills, Raquenel shows again the unique and intoned nuances of her powerful and seductive voice in a genre that has not yet been able to spread or promote female talent.
If You Don’t Like What I Am, it is authored by Enrique Coqui Navarro and produced by renowned producer and music programmer Eduardo León and the Morena Music record label. The theme, according to Raquenel, “is a song that is not only personal to me and the insecurities that I have overcome in my life, but also aims to promote acceptance and self-esteem, especially in the world we live in, which is increasingly superficial and more antagonistic against people who do not meet certain physical standards dictated by society, ”concluded Raquenel.
Currently, Raquenel continues to work on more themes of the same musical cut and on September 14 he will be performing at The Space in Las Vegas for the Divas Mexicanas show next to Carmen Jara.
Mexican impressionist artist Francisco Toledo dies at 79
The famous Mexican artist known for incorporating pre-Columbian techniques, images of shamanist animals and political iconoclasm into his work, and who was a prolific cultural philanthropist in his native Oaxaca, died on September 5. He was 79 years old.
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced the death on Thursday on Twitter, calling Mr. Toledo “a true defender of the nature, customs and traditions of our people.” No further details were given.
The paintings, drawings, prints, collages, tapestries and ceramics of Mr. Toledo were largely inspired by his indigenous Zapotec heritage prior to the Spanish conquest of the 16th century. Insects like grasshoppers and animals like alligators, monkeys and tapirs, which Mr. Toledo found in his childhood, appear in his works as symbols and metaphors of everything from sex and fertility to a dying natural landscape.
Toledo first emerged in the world of international art in the 1960s, but his celebrity flourished especially in Oaxaca, where he was “El Maestro”, considered a legend for his strong cultural patronage, his prolific production and his aversion to fame That only increased it. His paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, tapestries, ceramics and vibrant and often funny photographs are based on his indigenous Zapotec heritage, as well as American expressionism. In reviewing his watercolors in the March 1987 edition of Artforum, Ronny Cohen wrote: “Only a sensibility in tune with the magical aspects of art […] can produce the fantasy of such an unforced and irrepressible character”.
He was recognized with the Princess of Asturias Award, the National Science and Art Award (1998) and the Right Livelihood Award (2005).
Toledo has works in the Museums of Modern Art in Mexico, Paris, New York and Philadelphia, in the New York Public Library, the Tate Gallery in London and the Kunstnaneshus in Oslo, to name a few.
