by the El Reportero’s news services
Ex Beatle Ringo StarrBritish drummer Ringo Starr, former member of the legendary group The Beatles, will include Uruguay in his promoted Latin American tour, scheduled for next October and November.
According to specialized media, the famous musician will perform with his band All Starr in a luxury hotel of the neighboring resort of Punta del Este on November 2, after performing in Brazil October on 29 and 31.
His band includes Steve Lukather (Toto), Richard Page (Mr. Mister), Gregg Rolie (Santana), Mark Rivera, Gregg Bissonette and singer Todd Rundgren, with whom Ringo will present his latest records Ringo 2012 and Ringo at the Ryman.
The musician has just completed a tour of New Zealand, Australia and Japan and, according to reports here, after Brazil and Uruguay, he will perform in Paraguay (November 4), Argentina (6 and 8), Peru (11) and Mexico (13, 17 and 19). Finally, he will be in Las Vegas, United States (22, 23).
Ricardo Arjona returns to Bolivia to present new CD
The Guatemalan Ricardo Arjona will return next Thursday to Bolivia to sing some of the songs from previous albums and introduce his latest CD.
The concert, a summary of the 27-year career and 13 albums of the author, will be held in the eastern city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra and is part of the tour “Metamorphosis World Tour 2013”, which has included Argentina, Paraguay and Colombia in recent days.
We will tour some countries in the South and then I will perform in Europe, which I do not know jet, “he said in a recent interview with the daily El Deber. The winner of a Grammy and a Latin Grammy returns to Bolivia after three years of absence to present the album “Independent”, Demos, a collection of his works, CDs and memoirs.
“It’s exactly as if someone had gotten to my most intimate files and has stolen all notes and recordings prior to disc and made it public. Metamorphosis (his new independent record label) spied me too much and then share it,” he explained.
“I think it’s a unique project, I am very proud to share even my mistakes and atrocities which sometimes I start some songs,” he added.
The singer, who before musician was teacher, tailor’s apprentice and stevedore, said, emphatically, he is not a poet or singer, but apprentice in many things.
“I did swatches of fabric and it was not enough to live, I was a schoolteacher and I learned more than my students, I worked loading boxes of grapes and ate them all, I tried as a typist and my spelling killed me. Finally I made songs, I liked it and got some complicit and I still go on in this, “he said.
Gloria Estefan to release The Standards album next September
Gloria Estefan’s “The Standards,” a celebration of the American Songbook, will go on sale Sept. 10, Sony Masterworks said.
Reflecting the international nature of her audience, the disc features songs sung in English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and French.
Estefan, who contributed to Frank Sinatra’s 1993 “Duets” album and, more recently, to Tony Bennett’s “Viva Duets,” sought out singer-songwriter Laura Pausini, violinist Joshua Bell and saxophonist Dave Koz to collaborate on the project.
Besides classics such as “What a Difference a Day Makes” and “Young at Heart,” the album includes Estefan’s rendering in English of Carlos Gardel’s “El Dia Que Me Quieras” (“The Day You Say You Love Me”) and her Spanish-language version of Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile.”
The winner of three Grammys and four Latin Grammys began with a list of 50 songs and recorded 16 of them before choosing 13 cuts to go on the album.
“I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini and great romance recording artists in Mexico and Cuba,” the Havana native said. “This genre is right up my alley, since music is always a catharsis to me.”
Estefan has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide since bursting onto to the music scene in 1983 with “Conga.”
