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The Cuban artist will be accompanied by a special concert in Santiago Auserón Marinah Ojos de Brujo, Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club, Murcia Symphony Orchestra and a choir Voces Blancas Conservatory of Cartagena
It is known as the leading lady of Buena Vista Social Club, as the girlfriend of feeling, and as the star dancer Tropicana cabaret.
In his more than 80 years, Omara Portuondo (Havana, 1930) still lives for bolero, Danzon or habanera.
At age 17 he became one of the most important voices of his country bands like Swing Loquibambla o d ¿Aida quartet with which he created a new style known as feeling, a fusion of jazz and bossa nova.
At this Cuban Basque ancestors still has, he says, a lot of trouble to give.
His voice is soft, slow paced, and it denotes a way with people that age will not be able to stop.
Have stories, hundreds of memories for snorkeling to portray his life.
For the recording Portuondo Buena Vista Social Club in 1996, produced by the American guitarist Ry Cooder, was a before and an after.
He became the lady of the Cuban bolero and her voice began to be heard in the world.
Two years later came the eponymous documentary film directed by Wim Wenders, who recorded his performance at Carnegie Hall in New York.
Before passed through the Sea of ​​Music 1998 and held a Special Cuba where the grand dame of bolero starred with Compay Segundo, Eliades Ochoa, Juan Perro or Martyrdom among others?
Tuesday, the city that has hosted so many times, Cartagena, will give one of their awards, the festival La Mar de Músicas for his great acting ability and be able to transmit from all stages of the world for over 60 years essence and soul of Cuban popular music.
A very special night when Omara Portuondo Auserón Santiago performing with the introducer in Spain of Cuban music, Marinah (singer Ojos de Brujo), the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club, the string section of the Symphony Orchestra Murcia Division and a choir Voces Blancas Conservatory of Cartagena.
Concert in Auditorio El Batel at 23:00.
Tickets at 28, 20 and 15 euros.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE, THE FIRST TIME IN SPAIN
It is the story of a singer who begins on the subway.
But Benjamin Clementine is much more than that: it is a composer in motion.
A fantastic showman.
Many see it as the ultimate soul musician to reach the masses, an artist prepared to take hostage the heart of your audience.
His weapon of seduction is an eternal recipe: atypical piano and voice.
It's already a star in France and the UK and has not yet published their first album.
Its peculiar life of Ghanaian British parents who moved to Paris and had to beg to survive, to jump to fame last week without going further act during the parade of Burberry Prorsum catwalk in London, totaling more value Clementine, acting for the first time in Spain in the Sea of Music on Tuesday July 22, at 21.30 pm in the Cathedral.
Some few, they stay in the romantic dimension of the life of Benjamin Clementine, transforming his life precarious period in the fairy tale that never was and doing its main feature.
His story is both poignant because at age 20, after having conflicts with his roommate, he moved to Paris, where for a time he practiced routine of sleeping rough in the subway stations of the city.
The sad story is reflected in his music, full of feelings, loneliness, and a firm domestic unrest.
It was discovered by a French independent label partner Ekleroschock singing in the subway covers from the likes of James Brown, Nina Simone or Bob Marley.
After Benjamin began performing in small venues in Paris.
Soon achieved recognition in the local scene and is finally known as The French's Inglés revelation.
Waste that urban folklore, one must focus on what is really out of the ordinary: the emotional discharge of his songs.
Cornerstone is his first EP album, only three songs, his voice and a piano are enough to move deep fibers, there is all the feeling he has lived and knows to be very clear in the lyrics: I am lonely, in a box of stone , this is the place I know I belong.
In December, after his participation in the BBC's Jools Holland, I act on the Trans Musicales de Rennes, where he was invited to the residence Outdoors for a week.
In 2010, it was reported Stromae same challenge and the same place.
Three years later, the darling of Brussels Trans again being a big star.
Her story has just begun to be written.
Benjamin Clementine is currently working on his first album.
It is one of the biggest bets of the festival.
Currently Benjamin Clementine is 25 and his future is full of plans, including a tour with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Definitely need to follow closely, this is like a volcano that has just erupt.
RAW Pimento
At 19.00 hours on Tuesday, and in the program of La Mar Chica, Pimento Oil act in Plaza San Francisco, a free concert.
Raul Frutos and Inma Gomez duet form Murcia Pimento Oil. Instrumentalist, luthier and son of troubadours, Frutos has been dedicated to music since I was just a kid.
He began playing the drums, but also part of crews souls of the Region of Murcia, and then to punk, hardcore, death metal ... Tremendous combination.
Just over two years ago, decided to partner with Inma Frutos Gómez, photographer and concert promoter.
The duo is born from the need to return the music to a minimum and this is accompanied by instruments performed themselves.
Inma Gomez Raul Frutos and reconstruct traditional genres such as blues, cumbia, rumba or Jarocho and come with educational explanations and simple rhythms to the smallest of the family, in a show that opens with La Mar Chica. Four hands and some unconventional instruments for the enjoyment of all.
ALAMEDOSOULNA
Another free concert will be at 20.00 hours in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento. Alamedadosoulna come prepared and ready to mount on the Sea of Music.
And it have burst back into the music scene putting it all upside down, like a bull in a china shop.
Come to present their fourth album Jaleo, which claimed more energized than ever to always, always, always allowed to have fun.
In this new installment of superautoproducción, Madrid throw up several points lever freshness, and doses of ska, reggae and music from This represents another turn of the screw in its goal of making dance and smile.
OTHER ACTIVITIES FOR TODAY TUESDAY
The Sea Lyrics
12:30 PM.
Breakfast with Whales.
Literary appetizer with Benjamin Prado, Kjartan Flogstad, Pedro Carmona.
Terrace El Batel.
19:00 pm.
Benjamin Prado and Kjartan presented Flogstad Metro Manila.
Reading live painting of the author and cartoonist Alvaro Nofuentes.
Hall of the Teatro Romano.
20:00 pm.
Literature and Commitment.
Kjartan Flogstad and Benjamin Prado.
The political and social commitment in contemporary literature.
Auditorium.
Roman theater.
The Sea Film
17:30 h.
Nuevo Teatro Circo.
Free.
The Kautokeino Rebellion Nils Gaup, 2008. 96 minutes.
VOSE.
Amanda four awards, including the prestigious Folkets Amanda (Amanda's Pueblo, 2008.
19:30 pm.
Upperdog Sarah Johnsen.
2009. 95 minutes.
VOSE.
Norwegian named best film of 2009 by the Association of Film Critics.
Amanda won five, including Best Picture and Director awards.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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