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Daniel Santacruz wins a GRAMMY®

“Larimar” gave Daniel his first Latin Grammy®

The Dominican singer made history by winning his first Latin Grammy® for his album “Larimar”, in honor of a stone that it’s used in jewelry and can be found in his country. The album has eleven tracks, and it was released in the middle of the year.

After several nominations, 2020 was his year! Also as a historical event, he shared the first place with the merenguero singer Eddy Herrera, who was nominated in the same category. Both obtained the valued award filling the Dominican people with huge pride. In fact, on their Instagram profiles they uploaded a picture celebrating.

Two Dominican Winners — Both Dominicans won the Latin Grammy in the same category.

Santacruz was nominated with his brother Manny Cruz, but on this occasion, Daniel was the lucky one. However, he didn’t hesitate to dedicate this award to him, and the rest of their family; he thanked his wife, his mother, his fans, his manager, and each of his team members.

The Grammy winner for “Best Merengue or Bachata Album”, shared a video on his Instagram Profile where he looked happy and excited. The comments of his followers were immediate, it got more than forty thousand views, and a large number of congratulations.

I’m grateful to God, to the Recording Academy, and to all those responsible for participating in this important production, that represents the sacrifices of a career and efforts of many years”, said the artist.

Santacruz was one of the artists who performed in the show. He sang to the beat of his single “Larimar”, from Dominican Republic. A band of musicians accompanied him, as well as the stunning blue sea of his country.

Larimar was the production that made him a Latin Grammy® winner, and it’s his seven production. Santacruz was also the general producer, however he had a great team of professionals who adjusted all the details. The production was in charged of Ambiorix Francisco, Israel “Mayinbito” y Richy Rojas, mastering by Andrei Fossari, and mixing by Allan Leschorn, Esbin Ramírez y Richy Rojas.

A little bit about Daniel Santacruz

The singer was born in the United States but grew up in Dominican Republic, since childhood he felt a natural inclination for music. Although, he had said that he regrets not having taken piano classes with his grandmother Zulema Victoria.

She was always pushing me to the music ‘Come to teach you music theory'”, recuerda.

Daniel Santacruz — Daniel won her first Latin Grammy.

But nevertheless, this didn’t deprive him of his abilities in the music area. He acquired his first musical interests on the island. Since very young he was interested on the songs of Juan Luis Guerra, Wilfrido Vargas y Luis Miguel.

We won a Latin GRAMMY®!!! Thank you very much to all the Academy Members to take into consideration my album #LARIMAR, that was made with all the heart and feels. This year the #merengue and the #bachata win double as well I shared this triumph with my beloved and admired brother @eddy_herrera with his album #ahora. I shared this joy with my entire work team and with all the artists, musicians, engineers, and producers that participated with me! THANK YOUUUUUUU @latingrammys”, he expressed on his social media.

For the next year he is preparing surprises and new collaborations with colleagues of the industry. Santacruz’s career is just starting, his successes won’t stop since he is so talented and has so much energy. Congratulations, Daniel!

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Judy Santos presents “LIVE”

Judy Santos Represents Bachata

The talented singer of Dominican origin Judy Santos, is worldwide known for her participation in some of the most successful songs of the bachata group Aventura: “Obsesión”, “Angelito” and “La Guerra”, together with the singer Romeo Santos.

Since very young, she had a natural inclination for music and singing. Her family support her projects. She was a member of several children’s singing groups, and gradually she became the woman she is today. The bachata genre has been characterized by being represented by gentlemen, however she has broken some paradigms.

When I listened to my voice for the first time on the radio was such a big emotion that until this day I remembered it as one of my greatest gratifications”, she expressed.

Santos was born in New York but her parents are Dominicans. For that reason, she grew up surrounded by latin customs, and learned to love her roots. Worldwide she is represented by Recognize The Talent Management.

Judy Santos is presenting her new abum “LIVE”.

LIVE is her new proposal

In this opportunity, she cheers up her fans with the release of her new album “LIVE”. This work has seven tracks from her repertoire. She had the opportunity to put together these songs that were recorded at the concert that she made in New York, and was broadcasted through her YouTube Channel.

The presentation lasted for about two hours. Her fans were pleased and made requests of hits of her own. The singer didn’t stop thanking those who accompanied her.

Thank you to my work team at Recognize The Talent Management, to all the sponsors, to the tremendous band that accompanied me, to Mente A Nah Studios, Minaya PR, and moreover to my audience that accompanied me all this time”, she expressed.

Santos stands out for an album full of talent and unforgettable songs, among them she decided to pay homage to artists of her interest with songs such as: “Estoy condenado” by Luis Vargas, “Por ti voy a morir” by Frank Reyes, “Te burlaste de mi” by Chaval de la Bachata, “Me quiero morir” by Anthony Santos, and “Dame tu querer” by Raulín Rodríguez. She also included a medley of the Aventura’s songs where she had the opportunity to participate, and were the ones that made her known in the musical industry.

I’m very happy to share this album that you had asked me for a long time ago, and that comes right at this point in my career. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it.” Expressed the artist.

Since November 20th you can find the album on the different digital platforms. For example, Secret exceeds one hundred thousand views on YouTube, and the comments were immediate. Her fans congratulate and recognize her as the bachata feminine voice. The artists share the news through her Instagram profile, and took that opportunity to thank her team.

Thank you so much to my team!!! First guitar (director) @luigiz_muzic, second guitar @joel_duranofficial, bass @alcibass, piano @jkeyz_muzic…”, she wrote. Also she thanked the Oreja Media Group, and the stations that had played her hits.

Judy keeps taking strong steps in the industry and is emerging as one of the most successful artists of her genre.

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Villariny Salsa Project from Puerto Rico

Committed to continuing the legacy of the greats in Salsa

Villariny Salsa Project made its debut on July 25th, 2009, at an international event held in Puerto Rico called “Puerto Rico Salsa Congress” where it was presented twice in the same year, as a prelude to Roberto Rohena and later, to the Gran Combo de Puerto Rico.

In the summer of 2010, Oscar Villariny (founder of the group) after working as a professional musician with salsa artists such as Gilberto Santa Rosa, Jerry Rivera, Puerto Rican Power, Viti Ruiz, Rey Ruiz, Anthony Cruz, Jose Alberto “El Canario”, Luigi Texidor, Tito Nieves, Michael Stuart, David Pabon, Johnny Rivera among others; began recording the first musical production which was entitled “En tu tiempo”.

Before making the “relayase” of the musical production, Villariny Salsa Project recorded the Christmas song “Trulla Caliente” to the rhythm of full, being a total success occupying the first positions in the radio lists.

In 2011, the first musical production of the band comes out with 8 songs, which has the hits “Que bien me va”, “Estoy Enamorao”, “Bendita la luz (salsa version)”, “A punto de Caramelo” and “Amigo es un peso en el bolsillo”.

This musical production was in charge of Mr. Tommy Villariny (arranger, musical producer, and trumpet player) who is Oscar Villariny’s father.

Within this production, he had the vocal coaching of Gilberto Santa Rosa, Victor Manuelle, Tony Rivas, Jerry Rivas (singer of the Gran Combo).

Villariny Salsa Project debuted on July 25th 2009 at an international event held in Puerto Rico called "Puerto Rico Salsa Congress". — Music Producer: Tommy Villariny & Oscar Villariny

At the time, it had a great acceptance from salseros and managed to be present in massive concerts such as Luisito Carrión (Roberto Clemente Coliseum), José Alberto El Canario (Tito Puente Theater), and the 2012 National Salsa Day. In 2014, VSP presented its second musical production entitled “De tu mano”.

This production has 10 songs and includes guest artists such as: Manny Trinidad (four Puerto Rican), Prodigio Claudio (four Puerto Rican), Camilo Azuquita, Luisito Carrión, José Alberto “El Canario (We were born in Salsa) and Medina Carrión.

The songs “De tu mano”, “Color Esperanza”, “Nacimos en salsa “and “Con computadora no feat NG2”, occupied the first positions in the radio waves.

In the year 2019, Villariny Salsa Project released a new music single entitled “Homenaje”, in honor of his father’s career and some of his successes by bringing together the same singers who originally recorded them such as Andy Montañez, Eddie Santiago, Rey Ruiz, and Viti Ruiz. “Many artists in the salsa genre have been hand in hand with my father Tommy Villariny to create what are successes today,” said Oscar Villariny.

Villariny Salsa Project released a new musical single entitled "Homenaje", in honor of his father's — Tribute to his father’s career

Our vision at Villariny Salsa Project is to make way for the New Generation and offer new opportunities, which is why Oscar Villariny (Founder of Villariny Salsa Project) is recording his first album with talented young people from the patio, produced by veteran musician Tommy Villariny.

Recently Villariny Salsa Project launched “Agua” available on all digital platforms.

Villariny Salsa Project presenta "Agua" feat. Mari Picorelli — Villariny Salsa Project presenta “Agua” feat. Mari Picorelli

The Villariny Salsa Project orchestra is a group with a lot of projection and refreshing for the industry.

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Project Pentagram Agrupación Gaitera de Venezuela in the USA

At present, Pentagram has international recognition for being the group that has made more national tours in the USA

Agrupación “Gaitera” was born in 2008 in the city of Miami, participating in various events and festivals, in 2012, they began to produce themes for the Spectator, which were very accepted by the public.

In 2017, the group was established as a group since they began to accompany great artists of the genre, as Neguito Borjas, Ricardo Cepeda, Nelson Arrieta, Rafael “Pollo” Brito among others.

Agrupación "Gaitera" was born in 2008 in the city of Miami, participating in various events and festivals, in 2012 begin to produce themes for the Spectator, which were widely accepted by the public — Project Pentagram Agrupación Gaitera de Venezuela in the USA

At present, Pentagrama has international recognition for being the group that has made more national tours in the USA and international tours in Panama, Chile, Spain, Argentina, and Colombia.

Members

Robert Richards-Four and Soloist

Jesus “Chuchito” Ibarra-Solista

Fernando Mindeola-Solista

Avelino Romero-Solista

Luis “Chua” Urdaneta-Congas y Coros

José Rafael Querales-Bajo y Coros

Gilberto Ferrer-Teclados

Ronald Guerra-Pianos

Adelmo Gauna-Battery – Timbal

Alejandro Araujo (Timbal)

José “Pokemon” Ferrer-Tambora

Melvin W. Alvarez-Charrasca

Melvin Álvarez Sr. – Furro

Arnaldo Quintero (Contra Bass)

Daniel González (Drums)

At present, Pentagrama is internationally recognized for being the group that has made more national tours in the USA and international tours in Panama, Chile, Spain, Argentina and Colombia — Project Pentagrama Agrupación “Gaitera” born in 2008 in the city of Miami

The Gaita and its History

In the first forms of bagpipes, the chants of the Mass that the Catholic missionaries taught, the percussion of the drums, the characteristic guttural sound of the furro (a derivative of the Zambomba), the maracas and the charrasca were combined, and the cuatro, derived from the guitar, together with the Spanish chants, represented the Iberian contribution.

The performance of the natives contributed the definitive style to this new music.

The following is an extract that comments a little more on the origins of the Gaita:

The origins of the Zulian Gaita have not been established with precision, but it is assumed that it was born with the republican concerns of the people, perhaps in the first decades of the 19th century, as demonstrated by the patriotic Easter songs dedicated to Ana María Campos, the Altagratian patrician who was whipped by order of the fierce Morales when she refused to withdraw her lapidary phrase: “O capitula o monda”.

Traditionally, the Gaita has been linked to the devotion to Santa Lucía in the El Empedrado neighborhood, and in this sense it is recalled that when Father José Tomás Urdaneta was in charge of the parish, he took the noisy bagpipers out of the temple. It can be said that since then, the Gaita has lost the religious character that it had for many years in the cobblestone district, to become definitively an instrument of healthy Easter joy and the most effective means of criticism and protest of the humble people.

Our Gaita has always been characterized by the freshness of its music and the mental agility of its players.

The origin of the Gaita according to Rafael Molina Vilchez

“The Zulian Gaita, like many other manifestations of Latin American costumbrismo, is mestizo. It has a polyethnic genetic mosaic, but its root is Hispanic, although the Hispanic nature is preserved in very different progressions than the maracaibera bagpipe (also called the furro bagpipe), the song of the criollo citadinos, in which it survives with strength, in comparison with the tambora and perijanera bagpipes, in which the blackness leaves a more intense mark”.

This scholar of folklore points out that the gaita is Spanish, but that over time two divergent tendencies have emerged: The maracaibera Gaita and the black Gaita.

This opinion has generated controversy, but it is quite shared, since the term “gaita” has Galician-Portuguese roots: it comes from the Gothic word “gaits” which means “goat”, because the bellows of the Galician gaita are made from the leather of the goat. From Spain through the African Arab countries it reached Turkey, in whose language it is translated as “shepherd’s flute”, which would be in accordance with the drawing Agustín Pérez Piñango found with the Glorious San Sebastián Gaita, which dates from 1668, according to a document located in the old National College of Maracaibo, which brings the lyrics and music in Gregorian characters. It would be the oldest Gaita known.

However, other scholars, among them Juan de Dios Martinez, maintain that the Gaita began with the black slaves in the haciendas of the South of the Lake, as a protest and evoking their festivals in the African areas from which they came.

The Gaita and its History The first bagpipe forms combined the mass chants taught by the Catholic missionaries, the percussion of the drums, the characteristic guttural sound of the furro (a derivative of the Zambomba), the maracas and the charrasca. — Our gaita have always been characterized by the freshness of their music and the mental agility of their performers.

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Jessi Uribe and Americo

Two great exponents of Latin American music come together in “Desde que te fuiste”

Jessi Uribe and Americo, two great exponents of Latin American music come together in “Desde que te fuiste”; Yesid Eduardo Uribe Ordoñez, better known as Jessi Uribe, is a Colombian singer and musician, recognized mainly for his participation in the realities “La Voz Colombia” and “A otro Nivel del Canal Caracol”, he was born in Bucaramanga on March 22, 1987, from Very young he grew up in a musical environment since his father “Fernando Uribe”; who is a mariachi musician, who took him to several of his presentations in a famous nightclub in the city; He began to sing from a very young age in different stages where he obtained his taste for the popular and ranch genre, currently becoming a singer of these musical genres.

Americo better known as Domingo Johnny Vega Urzua, was born in Arica, Chile, on December 24, 1977, he is a Chilean singer of is a singer of ballads and tropical cumbia who lives in Miami since 2018, he is currently the exponent of tropical music most important in South America, with a trajectory of more than 15 years of artistic career, which has taken him to great stages worldwide.

Jessi Uribe and the renowned Chilean artist Americo come together to present their musical tea “Desde Que Te Fuiste”, a production that is already emerging as a great success in Latin America. Americo is one of the greatest exponents of tropical music on the continent, for this reason “Desde Que Te Fuiste”; is a production that has both singers very happy, who are very proud to be able to unite their native countries, Chile with Colombia.

Jessi Uribe and Americo, two great exponents of Latin American — Jessi Uribe y Americo celebrating

“Recording with Americo is one of the most beautiful experiences I have had throughout my career, it is having the opportunity to meet and share with someone you admire and to share two cultures from two countries as close as Colombia and Chile. We had fun recording both the video and the song and I hope that in the future there will be another opportunity to work with him”; Jessi Uribe “Desde Que Te Fuiste” is a song with lyrics of spite and tropical sounds, which talks about a man who is sorry for having lost the love of his life.

The official video was recorded several months ago on the Bogotá sheet, the story shows two men who were left by their partners and who cannot bear their absence. The filming was done under the production of In victory Films and direction by Christian Silva.

Jessi Uribe recently celebrated more than 2 million subscribers on YouTube, in addition to his recent Tour La Conquista 2020, it was a great success nationally and internationally. Currently the Colombian artist is preparing for a new surprise that will soon be released.

Listen to his musical themes through his YouTube channel “Jessi Uribe 3” and listen to his songs such as “Desde Que Te Fuiste” by Jessi Uribe; Americo https://youtu.be/mAJWV9EcniI

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