por Prensa Latina and Hispanically Speaking News
Toto La MomposinaToto La Momposina and sextet Tabala are among the popular Colombian artists that will participate in the 33rd International Caribbean Festival that will be held in July, one of the organizers reported today.
In statements to Prensa Latina, Orlando Verges, director of the House of the Caribbean, which has been sponsored by this festival for more than 30 years, reported that Toto La Momposina is a symbol of the Colombian Caribbean artist women and the group identifies the music of African origin in that country.
Verges said that during a recent visit to Colombia, invited by CM Tropican Representaciones, a Cuban tour operator in Bogota, he met with academicians and practitioners of different artistic expressions, interested in attending at the coming Fire Celebration, as the festival is also known.
He highlighted that this time, the festival would be dedicated to the Caribbean culture in that Latin American nation for the second time, after being honored in 1996.
The scholar said the Colombian delegation would be composed of around 420 artists, including researchers, anthropologists, poets, fine artists, exponents of the culinary culture and other popular traditional cultural expressions.
The organizing committee was constituted in the coastal city of Barranquilla, with the presence of Culture Minister Mariana Garces and Cuban Ambassador Gustavo Bell, said Verges.
Ricardo Arjona returns to Venezuelan stages
Guatemalan singer songwriter Ricardo Arjona, very famous in Latin America, will return to the stage in 2013 with shows in three Venezuelan cities, SForganizers said on Tuesday.
According to the company Solid Show, the performances are scheduled for the first quarter of 2013 in Puerto Ordaz, Bolivar State; Maturin, Monagas, and this capital.
Arjona will arrive here as part of his “Metamorphosis World Tour”, which broke box office records this year and throughout Latin America. In Venezuela, he has already performed in six cities.
Until 2011, he released 13 studio albums, and a live album, nine compilations and 43 singles.
In addition, four of his albums reached the top position on the Billboard Top Latin Albums in the United States, with a awards like a Grammy and a Latin Grammy.
Along with that, highlighted awards of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, a Rusilver and gold torch, and two silver gulls at the International Song Festival of Viña del Mar in 2010.
Paulina Rubio’s ex-limited to supervised visitation with son Mexican singer
Paulina Rubio said Friday that her ex-husband, Spanish businessman
Nicolas “Colate” Vallejo Nagera, can only visit their son under the “supervision of a person who cares for the child’s physical and mental safety.”
With the statement released Friday by her attorneys, Rubio dismissed recent news stories saying that Colate had won the custody battle.
There was a court hearing in Miami on Wednesday after Rubio’s lawyers filed an urgent motion arising from the legal dispute she has with Colate over access to the minor.
In the motion she asked the judge that Colate be allowed only restricted, supervised visits with the boy.
