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“I’m looking for you and I can’t find you” the new by Newman Zamora

Latin America / Venezuela / Caracas

(Press/San Juan Producciones) The young Venezuelan singer, Newman Zamora, premiered this Friday, February 16, on his official YouTube channel, his second promotional single, “I’m looking for you and I can’t find you”, a romantic salsa with lyrics and music of the Creole singer-songwriter Frederman Franco.

With the production and musical arrangements of Wilmer Herrera, it was recorded at the AudioPlace studios and the San Agustín “Paicosa” studios, and featured the performance of renowned musicians: Joel Uriola (piano), Freddy Rivas (congas and bongo drums), Yorma “ Caballito” Méndez (timbale), Wilmer Herrera (bass), Lewis Escolante (trombones), in the choirs, Gonzalo Martínez and Frederman Franco. It should be noted that the editing, mixing and mastering was in charge of Jean Sánchez, winner of the Latin Grammy.

I’m looking for you and I can’t find you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqY-LgdCgRo

Preparing his first album

From the moment he decided to start his career as a solo singer in the salsa genre, he set himself the goal of entering the world market with an album, which until now has no name.

In 2017 @newmanzamoraoficial started the recording process with the version of the song “To feel that”, due to his admiration for the Brazilian singer-songwriter Alexandre Pires. With its release on October 6 of the same year, it achieved its formal entry into this genre, receiving the acceptance of colleagues and the salsa public.

This pleasant experience prompted him to quickly continue with the production of this second theme, which he requested from his friend of many years, Frederman Franco, who has composed for Maelo Ruiz, O.S, among others.

“I’m looking for you and I can’t find you” and “To feel that”, are among the eight songs that will make up his novel record production, which is expected to be completed by the month of May.

Versatile musician and singer

Newman Zamora was born in Caracas on May 30, 1980. He began his music studies at the José Ángel Lamas Conservatory in 1990, where he received music theory and violin classes. For five years he was part of his school’s choir, which he combined with violin and percussion. Then he entered the Pedro Nolazco Conservatory, where he studied flute. In 1993, he formed the team of founders of the Chacao Pre-Children’s Orchestra, under the baton of maestro Juan Cristóbal Palacios.

During his adolescence he was a member of the group “La calle de la amargura”, created in 2001 by Jhonny Núñez and Ricardo Montaner. By 2004 he participated in various groups in the Afro-Cuban genre as a percussionist and singer. Among his teachers were José Luis Presa, Zdzislaw Waszkiewicz, Osiris Aragón, Faride Mijares, Miguel Urbina, among others. She is currently the vocalist of the “Caballo y sus riders” Orchestra/END

Maria Fernanda Leon

San Juan Productions

Today we talk with Susana Y Su Orquesta Adelante

There are so many descendants of Latinos who have fallen head and ears for their parents’ culture, so they always seek to leave their countries of origin on high with the tools they have at hand, especially music.

One of them is multi-instrumentalist Suzanne Cortez, who currently conducts Susana Y Su Orquesta Adelante and has many interesting things to say about her career.

Suzanne is a bassist — Suzanne is a multiinstrumentalist, but her main instrument is the bass

How Suzanne got interested in music in the first place

Suzanne became interested in music at a very young age when she saw her mother listening to many records of all genres, but her favorite group was Trio Los Panchos, which was very popular at the time. However, her mother also listened to The Beatles very often, to the point that Suzanne imitated them and pretended she was a member of the group.

From so much listening to music of varying genres, Suzanne learned to play herself, and it was the variety of genres she listened to that trained her to interact with all of them.

The artist enjoyed all types of music, but emphasized that her favorite genre was salsa. She assures that she can play any rhythm such as classical music, jazz, Latin jazz, Latin rock, R&B and many others, but none of them can be compared to what salsa makes her feel.

How her musical career began

Before forming what would become her own group Susana y Su Orquesta Adelante, she had a very interesting journey that prepared her to lead her own project later on.

At school, she took a few classical music lessons and her teacher called her one day to ask her if she was trained to learn to read music, to which she said no and that she had learned everything by ear and nothing else. This pleasantly surprised the educator and encouraged her to pursue a musical career beyond the boundaries of the classroom.

After that, Suzanne had the opportunity to be part of the women’s band Orquesta Sabrosita, in which she was the youngest of all the members. At that time, an all-female band was something very fresh in the Bay Area, so they drew a lot of attention from the public at the time. There were many female artists already, but they did not play salsa yet.

About this, the artist points out that reactions to them were mostly positive, although there were always people who still preferred all-male orchestras, which was the norm at the time.

Susana Y Su Orquesta Adelante

Suzanne officially created her own musical project Susana Y Su Orquesta Adelante in 2009. However, this was not her first attempt to form her own band, but in 2000. In that year, Suzanne and the rest of the musicians who accompanied her played in churches since for her the praises of God were very important and music was her vehicle to communicate with the Almighty.

In view of the great talent the band demonstrated every time they played one of their songs, some club owners wanted to invite the group to play in a café of their property and they did not have any problem with them having a repertoire based on Christian salsa.

It took Suzanne a while to make up her mind until finally, in 2009, she started playing with her group in cafes, clubs, restaurants, festivals, among other places.

There was also a point when the orchestra stopped playing purely Christian music, as the members wanted to vary their repertoire. In addition to that, Suzanne knew that, although they were not always playing religious music, God would be happy that they were making their listeners happy.

Challenges faced by Suzanne on this path

As much as Suzanne has achieved great things with her music, she has also had to face certain challenges that caused her to move away from her goals for some time.

Unfortunately, as with many artists, Suzanne turned to alcohol and drugs, which sent her into a deep depression and to left aside music for many years. These problems and her subsequent rehabilitation kept her away from the stage for more than 28 years, until she realized that it was time to try her luck once again with her great passion.

Unfortunately, most of the musicians who accompanied her in the beginning were making their lives out the music scene or had become part of other bands, so she had to look for new members for the orchestra she wanted to form.

However, the artist has absolutely no regrets about how things have turned out in her career and is grateful for the path she has traveled, despite the circumstances.

North America – July 2018

Latin America – July 2018

Hernan Olivera the sonero of the 21st century

Latin America / Puerto Rico / Puerto Rico

Hernan Olivera, this excellent Salsa singer named Hermenegildo Olivera was born on January 30, 1959 in Newark, New Jersey.

Hernan Olivera is the son of Puerto Rican parents and from an early age he felt a great affinity for Latin music since his father listened to the groups of the moment such as Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Machito, Ismael Rivera with Cortijo y su Combo, Alegre All Stars, Tito Rodríguez, Santitos Colon, etc.

Then, in the 70s, in the midst of the Salsa Boom, Herman began his love of singing listening to the performances of Chamaco Ramírez, Héctor Lavo’e, Cheo Feliciano and Marvin Santiago, among others. These vocalists were mainly his source of inspiration; That school of soneros served as an apprenticeship for him and that is when he made the decision to sing professionally.

Hernan Olivera - photo — Hernan Olivera – photo

When he was just 15 years old, Herman began his career as a Salsa performer with an orchestra called “La Justicia”, after this he was part of the band “La Sónica” where he met his friend and trombonist Jimmy Bosch, after this He spent time with the “Caramelo” orchestra and later made the most important leap in his career by joining the “Con Conjunto Libre” in 1978, where he left his voice for the first time on the LP “Increíble” from 1981 under the direction by percussionist Manolo Oquendo and Bassist Andy González where he stands out with the song “Decide”.

Then in 1983 he would record with the Conjunto Libre in the production “Rhythm, sound and style” the song “Que Humanity” that would become a success. In 1988 Herman left the group “Libre” and became part of a project by Mr. Fernando Pastrana and under the musical direction of trumpeter Miguel Santiago whose album was called “La Exclusiva” which shared the vocal part with Roberto Mier, in this album stands out interpreting the songs “Xiomara” and “Te vi pasa”.

After this, in 1990 he was invited to record on the album “Salsa Sudada”, for the Valdesa Records label of Víctor Raúl Sánchez “Patillas” and with the musical direction of Isidro Infante, sharing vocals with Mario Muñoz “Papaíto”, Adalberto Santiago, Eladio Peguero “Yayo El Indio” and Pablo Villanueva Branda “Melcochita”; in this work he interprets the themes “La needle” and a tribute to the city of Cali called “Valle plata de salsa”.

He continued with his career as a performer and in 1993 he was once again invited to record the production “Now” with the Free Ensemble, where his great conditions and resources as a singer are undoubtedly reflected, there the song “You belong to me” became a hit in addition to other songs such as “Obsesión” and “El Son” stand out on this album.

Subsequently, he launched an independent project called Herman Olivera and La Exclusiva “Chequea La Mercancía” produced by Fernando Pestana, where the song “Me Extra Spider” is one of the most outstanding. In 1996 he reunited with the Conjunto Libre and made the live album entitled “On The Movie”.

Caratula Alta resolucin sin letras of Hernan Olivera

In 1997 he participated in the CD of the band Rikoson All Stars called “Evoluciones Del Son” where he stands out very well in the romantic theme “Aquella Noche”.

Photo - Hernan Olivera in concert — Photo – Hernan Olivera in concert

In 1998 he was requested by the piano teacher Eddie Palmieri and together with the vocalist Wichy Camacho they recorded the album “El Rumbero Del Piano” in which he stood out as a singer in the songs “Malagueña salerosa” and “Oiga mi guaguancó” that same year. he is invited to the recording studios by the trombonist Jimmy Bosch and they release the album titled “Soneando Trombón” which contains the hit “Otra opportunity” that he performs as a duet with Frankie Vázquez, on this CD the song “Descargarana” is also inserted. ”.

That same duo Olivera and Bosch meet the following year (1999) and make the production “Salsa Dura” where Herman shines interpreting the full “Impact we will have” this album also has the participation of the singers Frankie “Nene” Morales and Frankie Vázquez parallel to this album, the RMM label launches a live CD and DVD entitled “Eddie Palmieri & Friend’s” where Herman looks excellent in the number “Palo Pa’ Rumba”.