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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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Hanny the Voice of Cuba for the world

Leosbel Jiménez Licea is Hanny the Voice of Cuba

Born on July 8, 1972, Havana Cuba in the Vedado neighborhood. For the love of the songs I used to listen to on the radio at home, the love for music was born, especially for the guitar. That’s why since I was 4 years old all my toys were musical instruments, a drum set, drums, harmonicas, triolas, until I had a little toy guitar with which I used to invent concerts on the balcony of my house, the neighbors would pass by and laugh when they saw me so small believing me to be a star.

Leosbel Jiménez Licea Born on July 8, 1972, Havana Cuba in the Vedado neighborhood By the passion to the songs that I listened at home on the radio was born the love for music especially for the guitar, so since 4 years old all my toys were musical instruments, a battery, drums, harmonicas, triolas until I had a toy guitar with which I invented concerts on the balcony of the house, the neighbors passed and laughed to see me so small believing me a star Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) — Leosbel Jiménez Licea

Hanny the Voice of Cuba

9 years old, I begin to study the basics of the guitar in the house of culture of the neighborhood at the same time that I was practicing fencing, at the age of 11 I won the national infantile championship of fencing earning me a scholarship to the school of sport incision (Eide) in the city of Havana, school from where many glories of the Olympic and world-wide sport of Cuba have come out.

14 years for disenchantment with the sport life I decide to leave the sport and to concentrate only in the music, in a self-taught way of course, there I begin to write my first songs that were poems that I was musicalizing at the time that I was learning new chords.

At the age of 19 I already had some songs that were sometimes played on some programs of the radio station in the province on the Havana City Radio.

So I was trolling the streets meeting many street artists until one day, an Englishman David Butlle, known as Mr. Bongo, arrived in Cuba in search of an orchestra to produce a record in Britain, a few days before leaving Cuba wanted to buy several albums of Cuban music from the 50s and did not know how to speak Spanish, my friend who passed by helped him with the translation into English, thanked him and told him who he was, my friend told him about my music, then we recorded a demo of 11 songs of my authorship then took them to London.

Between August and September of 1996, I was flying to London to record my first CD titled (Athe Voice of Cuba) production of 11 themes of my authorship and a danzón of the composer Niurka Díaz and Daniel Rodriguez, recorded with British, Cuban, Venezuelan, Colombian musicians all settled in London, my first recording work came out two themes that were in the French movie “Place Vomdome”, with the famous actress Catherine Deneuve, a British novel called Coronation Street, I also use my music, novels and series from Argentina, one called the Lola from Colombia and Israel, my first cd enjoyed good reviews in the best known and respected media especially in the UK opening the doors to the Royal Albert Hall, jazz cafe in London, the most prestigious jazz festivals and world music generally from the UK, as well as taking my music to all Europe, Colombia, Peru, etc, making for the success of the album concerts in Norway, Spain, Turkey, and Finland.

So I was trolling the streets meeting many street artists until one day an Englishman David Butlle known as (Mr. Bongo) arrives in Cuba looking for an orchestra to produce an album for him in Britain — The Troubadour Leosbel Jimenez Licea

In 1998 I recorded my second album produced by my company (Hanro Records) and this time we recorded between the laboratory of electroacoustic music of Cuba and London with the participation of musicians from the Orchestra of Elio Reve, Paublito fg and Irakere, plus some British and Latin musicians based in London, at the same time conducted and directed a radio program in Spectrum radio called Cannonazo in England. Then came a period of just a few acoustic concerts to prepare all the new songs that we will start recording at the end of the quarantine. In 2019, I did 6 concerts in Finland, 5 Acoustic and one with a band in one of the most prestigious halls of Helsinki, I did 5 concerts in Ecuador and one concert in Cali Colombia, now we were preparing a group of concerts in Colombia, Chile and Peru everything is stopped until normality arrives, with 3 albums ready to start recording little by little.

In 1998 I record my second album produced by my company (Hanro Records) and this time we recorded between the laboratory of electroacoustic music in Cuba and London with the participation of musicians from the Orchestra of Elio Reve, Paublito fg and Irakere — Hanny the Voice of Cuba for the world

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From Italy Albert Giorgio Giovanni DJ. Lindo Salsa and Bachata

Albert Giorgio Giovanni Fiorentu Dj Lindo is an Italian and Latin music producer (Salsa and Bachata).

Albert Giorgio Giovanni Fiorentu aka Albert Lindo or DJ. Lindo is an Italian DJ. and producer of Latin music (Salsa and Bachata).

Born in Udine, Italy in 1989, he started his career as a dancer in 1997.

In 2008 he graduated as a dance teacher. In 2011 he moved to Austria (until today) and in 2014 he started working as a dance teacher at the school Conny & Dado in Graz.

In the same year he started his career as a DJ and in 2017 as a producer.

Dj Lindo is an Italian DJ and producer of Latin music (Salsa and Bachata). — Albert Giorgio Giovanni Fiorentu to Dj Lindo producer of Latin music (Salsa and Bachata).

In 2019 (after the first 2 unfortunate productions) the first world production “The Phantom” is released, helped by the pianist and composer Marco Ronca.

In 2020 he obtained his second diploma as a dance teacher and also launched his new single “No Te Detengas” always with Marco and in collaboration with several recognized artists.

Between the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, 4 new productions will be ready, a bachata and three salsas (a romantic salsa, a hard salsa and a Cuban salsa) with the collaboration of many recognized artists.

Currently Dj Lindo is part of the record label located in Milan (Italy) Alosibla Music Group and Downbridge Publishing, which each year presents the famous compilation.

Albert Giorgio Giovanni Fiorentu aka Albert Lindo or Dj Lindo is an Italian DJ and producer of Latin music (Salsa and Bachata) — Italian DJ and Latin music producer (Salsa and Bachata)

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Did you know the origin of the DJ…

The 9th of March is World DJ Day, thanks to the initiative of the ‘Worl DJ Fund’ and the NGO ‘Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy’. But, do you really know the history of these music mixing artists?

For 16 years this day has been celebrated as a tribute to this sector of music that is so in vogue in our time, which take advantage of his ‘birthday’ to donate what they charge these days to charitable causes.

The initiative was carried out in 2002 by the ‘Worl DJ Fund’ and the NGO ‘Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy’, and has been active for over a decade. But the history of the DJs has a few more years.

For those who still do not know what is behind the acronym DJ, a ‘disc jockey’ is a musician who creates, selects and plays before an audience music of his own or composed by other artists. There are several types, including radio and club DJs.

The first DJ in history

It was Ron Diggins, a British radio engineer who in 1947 built the famous Diggola, considered the first “mixing table” in the history of music. This home-made portable table included two turntables, lights, microphones, an amplifier and a dozen speakers. And it was made on a coffin wood base.

If we mention Ron Diggins, many of us won’t know who I’m talking about, because this British and radio engineer is considered the first DJ in history.

Many others before Diggins moved in with their records and equipment to cheer on the soldiers but he was the creator of “La Digolla”.

He himself built the first mixer in 1945, although it wasn’t until 1947 that the invention became official.

It was a portable table made of wood, worthy of any party room, it included two plates, lights, microphones, an amplifier and a dozen speakers.

As a curiosity, the wood with which Diggins made the first mixing table in history was casket wood.

Six weeks was the time it took the engineer to build the famous portable table.

Ron Diggins’ dream was to travel all over the UK with his van and “La Digolla”, so he could play his favorite songs.

This pioneer during his professional career was severely criticized by countless musicians who did not approve that the DJ would mix songs without their consent.

Diggins retired in 1995 after playing at 20,000 parties.

In his hard beginnings, traveling kilometers and full of criticism, he would never imagine what he had done, he had invented a profession. A job that would be paid for, more than he could have thought.

The first Disc Jockey in history, died at the age of 90 and in his long life he made 6 “Diggiolas” Some of them were auctioned off at more than $40,000.

“I haven’t invented anything, I just put the same things to a different use, that’s all.

On his 90th birthday, the first disc jockey confessed that, when he started to tour cities and towns with his invention, he received hundreds of criticisms from musicians who did not approve of him mixing their songs without their consent. Diggins retired in 1995 after playing at 20,000 parties.

The big DJ explosion

In the 60s and 70s, with the expansion of the discotheques in Europe and the USA, the creation of a specific technology for this figure of the music began, like the mixer ‘CMA-10-2DL mixer’. It was also the time of the birth of ‘hip-hop’ and ‘disco’ music.

In the 80’s we get the first big names, considered cult DJs, as Larry Levan who played in the ‘Paradise Garage’ in New York, or Frankie Knuckles, with its mixtures of ‘disco’ and ‘synth pop’ led to music ‘house’ in the ‘Warehouse Club’ in Chicago. At the same time, in Detroit, techno was born.

They were years of great impact for the DJs, who saw the birth of their first magazine specifically for professionals, the ‘DJ Times’ in 1988 and held for the first time an exclusive event for DJs of electronic music dance, the ‘Winter Music Conference’ in 85 in Florida.

The DJs of the digital era

The arrival of the ‘rave’ movement in the 90s radically changed the image of DJs and these artists began to project themselves as superstars or ‘Diva DJs’ who establish particular sounds and brands.

These new ‘DJs’ have arrived to our days, taking advantage of the technological innovations of the digital era, and there we have famous names such as the French David Guetta, Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto or Bob Sinclar, who travel the world with their mixes.

Source: https://culturizando.com/

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Greeicy premiere “Los Consejos”

Greeicy premieres her new single “Los Consejos” and is nominated for the 2020 youth awards

This time we have the Colombian actress, singer and dancer Greeicy Rendón who has moved into the world of current music; Since she was little, she was interested in acting and music, so with the help of her parents, she began to take acting classes, piano, flute, guitar and singing.

On August 3, 2017, she made her debut as a solo singer with the release of her first single, «Brindemos» and subsequently, in the company of other artists or alone, they developed various musical themes; currently the charismatic and talented Colombian singer and songwriter, Greecy premieres “Los Consejos” the second preview of her new album.

"LOS CONSEJOS" the second advance of his new record material — New single “Los Consejo”

“Los Consejos” is a ballad with a fresh proposal that incorporates urban pop tones with a sweet melody and powerful lyrics that fuse nostalgia and disappointment “Duele quererte y tú tan lejos, tenía la fé de que íbamos a llegar a viejos, me hago la fuerte, pero es complejo, si la tristeza se me nota en el espejo”

The song was written by Greeicy, Andres Torres, Mauricio Rengifo, Keityn, Rudeboyz, Lexuzbeatz, Bullnene, Flybot, and Juan Camilo Vargas Vasquez.

“Los Consejos” is accompanied by a music video, directed by Greeicy and Dario F. Burbano and produced by Mike Bahía, where Greeicy is seen longing for that love that could one day be, while he is seen alone on a swing, transmitting that pain we feel when love escapes from our hands, without really knowing why.

This new song follows in the footsteps of the premiere of “Los Besos” and its version on piano, a song that was initially released in April this year. “Los Besos” already has more than 60 million combined reproductions and its video more than 40 million views and is currently in Spotify’s Top 200 and Top 50 Viral lists in 9 countries, and also in the Top 100 of Apple Music Latino in 11 countries.

“Greeicy Rendón delights with his version of ‘Los besos’ on piano” – RCN Radio

“In this new romantic and fresh version, the charismatic and cheerful personality of Greeicy continues to be reflected, who today is positioned as one of the most important Latin pop artists of the moment.” – 40

Since entering the music scene, Greeicy has become one of the most prominent female figures within the genre, projecting sensuality, sparkle and style. For this reason, she has established herself as one of the most influential female artists, reaching 4.1 million subscribers and almost 2 billion views on her YouTube channel.

The nominees for Youth Awards 2020 were announced through social networks and in the voice of the most important artists of the moment, where the Colombian artist Greeicy achieves a nomination.

The awards given by the leading Hispanic network in the United States Univision, which year after year recognize the best of music, confirm Greeicy’s nomination in the Hottest Core category with their single “Aguardiente”.

The award ceremony will take place live at 8P / 7C on August 13 from Miami, Florida, in compliance with strict public health and safety measures.

Votes are already available at www.premiosjuventud.com/vota until next July 21.