Ruben blades juan gonzalez che guevara biography
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David: This is The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. In the world of dansstil music, Rubén Blades is one of the greats. His 1978 album, Siembra, a word that means planting or cultivating, remains one of the best-selling dansstil albums of all time.
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Graciela: Rubén Blades, or as we call him in Latin America, Rubén Blades, though his name fryst vatten actually Rubén Blades, is one of the most important figures in salsa.
David: Graciela Mochkofsky writes for The New Yorker about Latin American politics and culture.
Graciela: He's an incredibly prolific artist, a writer, a singer, an activist, and a Hollywood actor.
Rubén: Hi, my name is Rudy Veloz, and I have this music that is going to blow you away.
Graciela: They grew up in Argentina, and he really sings for an entire people. We all feel like Blades' or Blades' songs are speaking about the struggles of our own countries. It's not ab
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Tropical Discourses: Community, History, and Sentiment in Ruben Blades's Latin Music(s)
zyxwvutsrqponm zyxwvutsrq zyxwvutsrqponm JOURNAL OF POPULAR MUSIC STUDIES. 13: 133-163.2001 Copyrtght (0 2001 Taylor & Francis 1524-2226101 $12.00 + .OO Tropical Discourses: Community, History, and Sentiment in Ruben Blades’s Latin Music(s) Jairo Moreno Duke University zyxwv WINTER, 1997 In February of 1997, I went to a studio in SoHo, New York, 10 record with a trio led by pianist Hector Martignon. Hector and I were both New York City-based Colombian musicians who, along with Japanese percussionist Satoshi Takeishi, had formed the rhythm section in the Latin jazz sextet of legendary percussionist Ray Barretto.] We were there to lay a track with a guest star: Ruben Blades, the Panamanian activist, actor, singer, songwriter, and former lead singer with Barretto’s salsa band. The track, a ballad titled “Propuesta” (“Proposition”),was quickly recorded.2 Having time to spare, Blades began to
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List of Latin Americans
This is a list of notable Latin American people, in alphabetical order within categories.
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[edit]- See also List of Latin American artists.
- Aleijadinho (1730 or 1738 – 1814), sculptor
- Julio Abril (1911–1979), sculptor
- Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973), painter, considered one of the leading modernist artists in Latin America
- Fernando Botero (1932–2023), painter and sculptor
- Adriana Melo, comic book artist, notable for her work on the Star Wars: Empire franchise
- Luis Camnitzer (born 1937), conceptual artist
- Roger Mello (born 1965), children's book illustrator
- José Campeche (1751–1809), painter
- Lygia Clark (1920–1988), painter and sculptor
- Marcela Donoso (born 1961), painter
- Pancho Fierro (1810–1879), illustrator
- Gego (1912–1994), geometric-abstract sculptor
- Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928–2021), architect
- José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913), illustrator and cartoonist, printmaker
- Alfredo Jaar (born 1956)