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Founder of the New Trova, Pablo Milanés is one of the great references of the music of Cuba in the world.
The Sea of ​​Music awards this year his award to the Cuban singer-songwriter for "tracing the bridge between the twentieth and the twenty-first century with an incomparable talent making the humble word sung more inspiring and necessary in an art of incalculable aesthetic and social value, and For writing some of the most beautiful love songs in the world, "the report said.
Milanés will receive his award on Monday, July 17, where he will also give a concert accompanied by Rozalén, Jorge Marazu and Pablo López.
The councilman of Culture of the City of Cartagena, David Martínez has emphasized that "it is an honor to reward a figure as relevant to music as Pablo Milanés, singer-songwriter who has passed many times through our city and joins our winners for the festival".
La Mar de Músicas has already awarded the festival prize to Oumou Sangaré, Cheik Lô, Susana Baca, Omara Portuondo and Gino Paoli.
The councilman also pointed out that "coinciding with the presentation of the award, Pablo Milanés will perform a performance within the festival accompanied by young artists as he had asked us.
Rozalén, Pablo López and Jorge Marazu will accompany him in a very special concert, where the Cuban artist will present a repertoire conformed by the classic themes of his career, within the "Canciones para siempre" tour.
Pablo Milanés was born in Bayamo on February 24, 1943, where he began musically singing as a child on the radio.
At the age of six he moved to Havana where he continued his musical training, both academically and in the streets learning from the troubadours.
At the beginning of the sixties Milanés began to make music from multiple influences: American music like jazz, the Brazilian song but fundamentally of the feeling and the traditional Cuban music.
It integrated several vocal formations like Quartet of the King, grouping of black spirituals, interpreting its first songs in the clubs habaneros.
In 1965, with "My Twenty-two Years", he introduced himself to a new musical language that emphasized his composer status and created themes that dealt with love or political and social commitment.
He was part of the Sonoran Experimentation Group (GES) in the early 1970s, along with important troubadours and musicians, under the tutelage of teachers Federico Smith and Leo Brower.
In 1974 he recorded his first album, "Versos Sencillos", in which he composed the poems of José Martí.
At the beginning of the 80s he published the albums "Yo me quedo", "El Guerrero" or "Beginning and end of a green tomorrow";
As well as "Querido Pablo" (1985), an album recorded in collaboration with musicians friends like Victor Manuel, Chico Buarque, Mercedes Sosa or Luis Eduardo Aute.
In the decade of the 90 in addition to continue publishing several discs: "Identity" (1990);
"Song of the grandmother" (1991));
"Origins" (1995);
"Despertar" (1997), among others, launched a non-profit foundation for the development of Cuban culture, a project that helped to make visible the work of many artists on the island.
The decade ended with a great collective work, "Pablo Querido", a tribute by Latin American artists to Pablo's work and in which Joaquín Sabina, Fito Páez, Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento, Los Van Van and the Maná group participated.
In 2006 he won a Grammy for Best Songwriter for the album "Like a Cornfield" and in 2015 received the Grammy for Musical Excellence.
In the last decade Pablo has collaborated with outstanding musicians like Chucho Valdés, Pancho Céspedes, Andy Montañéz or José María Vitier.
Together with Miguel Núñez, the pianisa of his group, he has just presented a piano and voice work: "Flores del futuro";
Has participated in the album homage that his daughter Haydée has made with classic themes of the singer's work and continues to compose for a new album of his own while performing his live performances.
La Mar de Músicas 2017 will perform a Special Latin American Sounds from July 14 to 22, with more than fifty groups that will be presented at the end of April and where some names have already been introduced, such as Franco Battiato, Resident, Estricninca, Rosalía, María Gadú or Rodrigo Leao among others.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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