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El festejo por los 45 años de vida artística de uno de los soneros más importantes de Cuba: Adalberto Álvarez
About to celebrate its 10th anniversary, La-33 launches to the public its latest audiovisual production. This is the biographical documentary entitled A BRIEF STORY OF A DELICIOUS IDEA, which shows how the most emblematic salsa band from Bogotá was born. What began as a gathering of friends is now the result of this tasty orchestra that has hooked us up to their flavored and joyful sound over these years. It gives us a look at the creative process, how they got together, the history and musical influences among others from the point of view of each of the members from La-33 and people close to the band as radio programmers, critics, and fans. This is one of several surprises that La-33 has prepared to their audience for the celebration of its 10th anniversary.
About to celebrate its 10th anniversary, La-33 launches to the public its latest audiovisual production. This is the biographical documentary entitled A BRIEF STORY OF A DELICIOUS IDEA, which shows how the most emblematic salsa band from Bogotá was born. What began as a gathering of friends is now the result of this tasty orchestra that has hooked us up to their flavored and joyful sound over these years. It gives us a look at the creative process, how they got together, the history and musical influences among others from the point of view of each of the members from La-33 and people close to the band as radio programmers, critics, and fans. This is one of several surprises that La-33 has prepared to their audience for the celebration of its 10th anniversary.
Between the years 1950 and 1980, the top tourist attraction for Latinos was the popular resort and hotels known as Las Villas of Plattekill located in New York. Originally owned and operated by Spanish immigrants, and later by Puerto Rican families, Las Villas was the original dance clubs that served as a summer vacation hot spot for Latinos that gave birth and rise to tropical music mambo, salsa, rumba, and merengue in the United States
Homenaje a Israerl Lopez "Cachao"
De Panama para el Mundo
"La Cuba Mía" , documental con la participación de grandes artistas cubano
Seventy-six-year-old Cuban street musician Miguel Del Morales, known as El Gallo (The Rooster), travels around Cuba with his guitar, making music in the homes of friends, in bars, and on street corners, in courtyards and stairwells.
Cali es Cali, lo demas en Loma.
PBS's Roots of Rhythm, host Harry Belafonte traces the roots of the musical form that has come to be called Latin music. From its origins in Africa and Spain, Belafonte details the evolution of the rhythms that would eventually be carried across the sea on slave ships. Featuring archival clips of early Latin superstars, the video sets the historical stage for a thorough exploration of this passion-filled musical form.
The second part of Roots of Rhythm, host Harry Belafonte leads the viewer on a tour of the blossoming of Latin music in the Cuban and Caribbean cultures. Featuring performances by some of the best known Latin performers including Tito Puente, Desi Arnaz, and Ruben Blades, this volume sets the stage for the explosion of Latin flavored music into the world of popular culture.
The third part of Roots of Rhythm, host Harry Belafonte leads the viewer on a tour of the blossoming of Latin music in the Cuban and Caribbean cultures. Featuring performances by some of the best known Latin performers including Tito Puente, Desi Arnaz, and Ruben Blades, this volume sets the stage for the explosion of Latin flavored music into the world of popular culture.
Our Latin Thing (Nuestra Cosa) is a musical documentary revealing the exciting lifestyle of New York Latinos during the decade of the 1970s. The film captures the New York '70s salsa explosion in all its power and adrenaline. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Leon Gast, highlights include performance by Cheo Feliciano at the top his game with an orchestra of superstars whose backup vocalists alone includes Héctor Lavoe, Ismael Miranda, Adalberto Santiago and Pete 'El Conde' Rodríguez. Gast takes also to the streets of the Spanish Harlem where the salsa phenomenon was born, as well as into the recording studio for a peek into the creative process, featuring producer/keyboardist Larry Harlow.
In 1974, during the heyday of the New York salsa explosion, the Fania All Stars were invited to perform in front of 80,000 people at a stadium in Zaire, Africa. Featuring exquisite performances by Celia Cruz, Héctor Lavoe and the All Stars' many other virtuoso players and vocalists, the concert was captured on film. Live in Africa captures a particularly soulful moment in the history of Latin music.
For the experts of Salsa in Colombia, Salsa is Just a generic name. They point out that Cuba is the mother land of this kind of music, but they also claims their contribution in the development of it. Salsa arrived in steam boats to Colombia in the late 50's. The two cities of Cali and Barranquilla constantly compete for the title. capital of salsa at their fairs and carnivals. These produce a unique college of sound and salsa energy.