by the El Reportero’s news services
Cuban singer-songwriter, Pablo Milanés, founder of the Nueva Trova Movement, will perform today in Colombia to pay tribute to Gabriel García Márquez, during the festival dedicated to the famous writer, coordinators confirmed.
Gabo came to my house in Havana, he liked to investigate my work, but much more than that, he loved to ask about what I composed and played my friends, the things I had not heard and ended fascinating him, and a close friendship was born, more musical than literary, the singer said.
In the concert organized in Medellín, as part of the festival that bears his name, I will launch an album he could not hear, entitled Renacimiento, with songs also influenced by Baroque and mixed with Cuban rhythms, the singer said in statements posted by El Colombiano website.
According to the author of the emblematic song Yolanda and El breve espacio en que no estás, the recent album includes songs in the style of changui, danzón, conga, jazz and son, maximum expression of the popular music in the island.
Milanés’ free performance in the Antióquia capital will be sponsored by the New Ibero-American Journalism Foundation, founded by García Márquez, who was recognized in life with the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Julieta Venegas gets two nominations in Latin Grammys 2015
Mexican singer Julieta Venegas said she felt very happy and surprised with the two Grammys nominations she has when it will take place on Nov. 19.
‘ In reality I am very happy and it was a total surprise, I was hoping for one nomination because the song Ese Camino got selected but not the record, to have two nominations was kind of a shock”.
The former San Diego/Tijuana singer-songwriter Julieta Venegas was nominated for her song, Ese Camino. She has one Grammy Award and five Latin Grammy Award wins to her credit.
Venegas, 44, is a former member of the pioneering Baja punk-rock band, Tijuana No.
Uruguayan film competes for Oscar Award
The Uruguayan film Una noche sin luna (A moonless night), which tells three parallel stories, is competing for the next Oscars, today confirmed the film producer Raindogs Cine.
German Tejeira’s film , starring Uruguayan actors Marcel Keroglian and Roberto Suarez and Argentine musician Daniel Melingo, is among several works competing for Best Foreign Film.
Tejeira began writing the script in 2006 and said: ‘I know how complex the way is, but is one of those things that may happen. We are in competition’.
The film is about three lonely characters that in the New Year’s Eve come to a small town in the Uruguayan countryside, where they have an opportunity to twist their destiny, informed the producers.
The film won last year the award for best feature film at the 10th edition of the Zurich Film Festival.
