Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff
Alexander Acha
Though one day he’d like to be known for his own achievements in music and no longer as the “son of Emmanuel,” Mexican singer Alexander Acha told Efe that he knows he’ll never stop being identified that way because his father is “one of the greats.”
“If he were some insignificant character in the world of music, maybe nobody would say ‘the son of,’ but my dad is one of the greats and so in my lifetime that’s never going away,” the 27-year-old artist said in an interview with Efe.
So, the young musician acknowledged, even though he achieves success and “gets to be even greater” than Emmanuel, it won’t matter, he’ll always be known as the son.
“That doesn’t bother me, just the opposite, it reminds me of who my father is,” he said about one of the most renowned performers of Mexican music and the author of hit tunes like “Chica de Humo” (Girl of Smoke) and “Bella Señora.”
The artist admits that being Emmanuel’s son has made his work easier in some ways, it has opened many doors, it’s like “bait,” but that afterwards he’s had to work harder than usual to show that he’s more than a name.
Ruben Blades 500,000 Comic Book Collection to Be Auctioned
Panamanian singer and politician Ruben Blades has been collecting comics almost since he reached the age of reason, but now thinks enough is enough and plans to put them up for auction.
Comic lovers will be able to bid on the almost 500,000 copies belonging to Blades up to Aug. 13 when the online auction organized by ComicConnect.com comes to an end.
Blades started collecting comics when he was a little boy in his native Panama and except for a few years when he left the picture stories aside, the Panamanian singer spent over 30 years piling up a huge, diversified collection.
“My mother threw a lot of them in the trash, and when I turned 18 I perspecstopped buying comics because other things began to matter more in my life,” Blades, the singer-songwriter of smash hits like “Pedro Navaja,” said.
His passion for comics returned at age 26 when he was living in New York and one day in 1974 came upon a second-hand comic-book store at the intersection of 57th Street and 8th Avenue.
HISPANIC STANDOUT: Meet the Music World’s Latest Prodigy, 3-Year-Old Lavinia Ramirez (VIDEO)
She may have simply played “Mary Had a Little Lamb” on the piano, but simply cannot describe how impressive it is for a 2-year-old to actually play a song on the piano.
Already being dubbed “Mini Mozart”, Lavinia Ramirez is getting quite a bit of attention after playing at her first concert after playing the piano for just 16 weeks at the impressively young age of two.
Lavinia’s parents say they knew their daughter, now three, was special even before she took on the piano.
‘Before she was two she could write numbers and letters and recognize them in books,” Lavinia’s mother, Jenna told the U.K.‘s Metro. Contributed by Hispanically Speaking News.
