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The great referent of Latin rhythms, Rubén Blades, will be in charge this Friday, July 20, to inaugurate the 24th edition of La Mar de Músicas.
The author of 'Pedro Navaja', comes to La Mar de Músicas with Roberto Delgado Salsa Big Band, with which he is touring around the world after having been awarded with the Grammy for Best Latin Tropical Album and two Latin Grammy, as Best Salsa Album and Best Album of the Year for its Big Band Salsa.
In addition, the opening day will bring together the Brazilians Liniker e os Caramelows, the multicultural band Magda and the traditional music of the Venezuelan Betsayda Machado.
Day for which the last hundred tickets are sold and which will be attended by the Minister of Culture, José Guirao.
Rubén Blades has been a reference figure of Latin rhythms for a few decades, a name closely linked musically to salsa.
Both as a composer and as an interpreter, the Central American artist (Ciudad de Panamá, 1948) has managed to maintain himself in the genre of the genre.
The author of 'Pedro Navaja', comes to La Mar de Músicas with Roberto Delgado Salsa Big Band.
Rubén Blades and Roberto Delgado will be touring around the world after being awarded with the Grammy for Best Latin Tropical Album and two Latin Grammy, as Best Salsa Album and Best Album of the Year for their Big Band Salsa.
"It is the first time that a salsa album is recognized in the category of Best Album of the Year (...) If there is an occasion to affirm the importance of the genre, internationally, it is the current one, when salsa receives a new and considerable attention" , he said recently.
According to the Panamanian singer-songwriter, not responding to the current situation "would result in a lost opportunity" for the diffusion and evolution of salsa, "something that might even seem irresponsible on our part, especially for those who have supported development for decades. of salsa as an example of urban art, reflecting their existences, experiences and aspirations ".
It hosts La Mar de Músicas, once again Rubén Blades with Roberto Delgado Salsa Big Band.
After Rubén Blades' concert, which will be at 23:00 hours at the Parque Torres Auditorium, he will take the stage of the Arab Castle Liniker accompanied by his Caramelows.
Although the first musical memories of Liniker Barros are samba and rock, it was the soul, the groove and the voices like that of the Brazilian also Elza Soares that pushed him to a musical career that now flourishes.
Liniker is accompanied by his band os Caramelows on stage.
They are from the small town of Araraquara, in the interior of the state of São Paulo.
They are a sign of the Brazilian black music hook and have had a meteoric rise in just two years.
From the ripped power of their voices, not only do beautiful songs of love and anger emerge, but also cultural expressions of a triple empowerment, black, feminist and LGBT, that fights against the thousand and one prejudices of society.
His music is serving to make visible groups, less and less, silenced and threatened in his country.
Fight music, strength and resistance.
Liniker has a spark and knows how to share it ... When he looks into the eyes of the public, you do not need to speak Portuguese to get carried away by that magical moment. It's universal!
And the concerts of the Old Patio of the CIM, new stage of the festival, will be inaugurated at 9:00 pm by Banda Magda, one of the most active and recognized bands of the current New York music scene.
Its eclectic and sophisticated sound, influenced by the cultural diversity of the different musicians that compose it, goes back to the golden age of Brazilian bossa, the exuberant elegance of French pop and the best orchestral arrangements of film classics.
Born in Greece 36 years ago, the composer, singer, arranger, pianist and accordionist Magda Giannikou is the soul of Banda Magda.
She is the polyglot mouth that sings in six languages, the same that transforms the musical genres and their borders, which draws with the contour of her lips a musical freedom that beats between different genres: the French chanson, the Greek folklore, the cumbia Colombian and the Afro-Peruvian landau.
Perhaps the daughter of a music teacher and a music-loving father has been taken since childhood by education and curiosity, language and its varied ways of sharing it.
Magda who began playing classical piano and trained at Berklee.
Thanks to his grandmother, music too, he discovered the accordion, which he began to execute almost intuitively.
For 2010 he founded Banda Magda and already in 2013 he released his first album, Amour t'es lá.
Then Yerakina and Tigre would come.
Sophisticated songs that also excite, entertain and invite to dance.
A polyglot and transnational assembly.
In the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, at around 8:00 pm, Betsayda Machado, the voice of Venezuela, will appear.
Raised in El Clavo, a town in the Barlovento region, known as the land of the drum and founded by slaves from Africa. The rural recordings of Bethsaida with their childhood friends La Parranda El Clavo have been his letter of introduction to conquer the scenarios of the world.
After his debut in the United States in 2017, Jon Pareles of the New York Times said about Betsayda and Parranda: "It's the kind of group that lovers of world music are excited to discover: Vital, with history, local, acoustic and roots autochthonous
The music they play is pure sound, with the drums as the main instrument, which come from the colonial era.
The vibrant rhythms and cantes of this Afro-Peruvian formation show the world the music of their local festivals, where they play and dance to the sound of the drum enthusiastic songs in which they tell the story of their town and their experiences.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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