by the El Reportero’s news services
Duets” will be released on May 18th.
Marking Sandoval’s first release in five years, and the continuation of a distinguished four-decade catalogue of over 30 groundbreaking titles, the album finds artists from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical and Latin music coming together for the Cuban maestro’s first duets release.
At the outset of recording, Arturo simply asked each participant to suggest a favorite song they would like to reimagine with the trumpet legend, and the results are as wide-ranging and illustrious as the list of collaborators.
A protégé of the legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, Arturo Sandoval was born in Artemisa, a small town in the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, on November 6, 1949, just two years after Gillespie became the first musician to bring Latin influences into American Jazz. Sandoval began studying classical trumpet at the age of twelve, but it didn’t take him long to catch the excitement of the jazz world. He has since evolved into one of the world’s most acknowledged guardians of jazz trumpet and flugelhorn, as well as a renowned classical artist, pianist and composer.
MERCOSUR will discuss cultural agenda in Paraguay
Ministers and authorities of Culture of the countries of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) will meet from today in this capital to discuss and exchange ideas and projects in favor of cultural development in the region.
This MERCOSUR entity promotes the cultural rights of citizens, generating policies that promote social inclusion through actions which allow cultural enrichment.
It also promotes cooperation at the regional level, carrying out joint projects and programs in the different sectors, promoting the spread of knowledge of the values and traditions of the States Parties, as well as the dissemination of the artistic and cultural expressions of the bloc.
Artists Support Their Countries at the 2018 World Cup
Artists join their voices to support their countries in the celebration of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, after the most recent anthem performed by the group Mana, social media are spreading today.
The Mexican group joined to the musical excitement with the premiere of El gladiador mexicano: Vamos México (The Mexican gladiator: Let’s go Mexico), a song that will cheer on the national team led by Rafael ‘El Rafa’ Marquez at the world cup, scheduled for 14 June to 15 July.
In the video, which reaches five thousand views on YouTube, there are athletes in full effort and young people playing, while Mana launches its message of inspiration for the team.
Social media also highlight on June 5 the actions that the groups of musicians are carrying out in favor of nature and to celebrate World Environment Day.
In 1995 the band formed the Selva Negra Foundation to finance important projects aimed at protecting the environment.
With the support of the Mexican government, Mana is also taking action to save the sea turtle by increasing the number of 140,000 eggs of this species and releasing them on the country’s Pacific coast.
On April 7, 2008, Mana and Selva Negra Foundation were declared Health Champions by the Pan American Organization.
Exhibition in Mexico to honor Perez Prado
The Fonoteca Nacional (National Records Library) is hosting today an exhibition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dámaso Pérez Prado, the creator and orchestrator of the Mambo rythem, with great roots in Mexico.
Under the title I am! Who? El Rey del Mambo (The Mambo King): Perez Prado, the expo exhibits a good part of his musical career in Mexico with photographs, album covers, advertising posters of the films in which he participated, scenes from the films and even his birth certificate, dated Dec. 11, 1917, in Matanzas, Cuba, where he was born.
There is also the sculpture San Damaso, created in 2009 and a scapular with an effigy and the prayer: The King of Mambo/San Damaso/Give us your protection…‘
The Fonoteca Nacional will be the stage for discussions about the Caribbean musician, who is also considered here a Mexican.
In April, the show Yo soy el rey Del Mambo (I am the Mambo King) by Cuban director Ulises Rodríguez Febles was presented here at the Teatro de la Ciudad (City Theater) Esperanza Iris. The show was performed with classics such as’Mambo No. 5′, What a nice Mambo! and’The roulette player’.
