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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
Ron Diggins first ever DJ

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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Be frightened at the Transilvania Salsa Fest!

Afterlight 10 very successful editions, the Transilvania Salsa Fest is back with great force to scare anyone who dares to live this experience from beyond the grave.

Living in this beautiful city (Transilvania) is not supposed to be synonymous with coldness and seriousness, quite the contrary. These are the events that make you remember the beauty of Latin music!

This great festival offers you a big selection of attractions and advantages that you cannot miss, such as the meeting of instructors and dance teachers specialized in all types of salsa to live an amazing weekend full of scary things.

Transilvania Salsa Fest and Latin music
This is the logo of the Transilvania Salsa fest

The Transilvania Salsa Fest includes 4 days of an absolutely extraordinary salsa experience, which brings you a series of ghostly parties animated by the best DJs, interesting dance workshops and the best classes taught by a large group of local and foreign instructors and shows that will leave you breathless.

The event offers various genres of music, but the main rhythms will be salsa, bachata and kizomba, which will satisfy your desire to dance and entertain you in the cold month of November.

Having fun at the Transilvania Salsa Fest
Attendees having fun at the Transilvania Salsa Fest

Salsa instructors

Magna Gopal

Super Mario

Panagiotis & Myrto

Alafia Group

Farid Ferchach

Kat & Eddie

BACHATA

Marco & Sara

Arnold & Wandaisha

Sorush & Nora

KIZOMBA

Ricardo & Paula – Afrolatin Connection

Richard & Manon

Location: Grand Hotel Napoca. Strada Octavian Goga

Cluj-Napoca, Judetul Cluj

Date: November 19-22

Facebook: www.facebook.com/transilvaniasalsafest

WhatsApp: 0040747171850

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Pupy Pedroso An Ambassador of Cuban Music in the World

Latin America / Cuba / La Habana

When we talk about the beautiful island of Cuba, it is impossible not to automatically think of its rich and ancient musical culture. We are talking about a small piece of land in the world, of that long Caribbean, but it is full of the most successful musicians of Cuba. the history of Latin rhythms.

It all lies in the Spanish and African influences that came to the Island hundreds of years ago, that race that was created from the strings and the drum, from the white and the black, from singing and dancing.

On this occasion I feel very proud to be able to speak directly with a cultural ambassador, recently appointed by the Latin Institute of Music, the leader of those who are are and one of the founders of the very famous Van Van orchestra, the great Cesar Pupy Pedroso, teacher of teachers, as we have called him for this occasion.

Good morning maestro, thank you in advance for the time you give us to all the readers of the International Salsa Magazzine and the portal www. salsamundi.com.

“Well, here I am very happy to be able to talk a little with you and grateful that you want to talk about this server”

Maestro with 19 years of foundation with Pupy and those who are maestro, tell us how the idea of ​​founding this great orchestra was born after making the whole world dance with the Van Van.

“The idea for the project ‘’Los que Son Son’’ arose from a recording I made (while in Los Van Van) with songs of my authorship performed by an internationally renowned performer. (Omara Portuondo, Rolo Martínez, Xiomara Laugart, Raúl Planas, Caridad Cuervo, Pedro Calvo, Raúl Planas etc…etc..) From that moment on I got the idea of ​​making another album with other performers, with a German publisher, and The album was called César Pedroso y Los que Son.

There came a time when I was on tour with Van Van and the dancers came with the records, so I could sign them, and it was then that the idea came to me of forming an orchestra and leaving Van Van and calling it ‘Los que Son Son’. . ”

Why Pianist?

“In my house when I was born there was already a piano, my father was a pianist, and children always want to be like their parents, and I was not going to be the exception, regardless of the fact that I liked the piano since I was little.”

What theme do you consider the flag of Pupy Pedroso’s new journey? When your orchestra opens

“Themes of the new transit: themes like ”What are the things in life” ””A crazy man with a motorcycle” ”Mommy behave well”, ”They’re calling me” and of course ”Six weeks “”

Pupy Pedroso
Pupy Pedroso

Tell us the story of the musical piece “De la timba a Pogolotti” does it tell us about a change in your life?

“From Timba to Pogolotti: It arises from a piano solo that I did in ”Sandunguera” and Pedrito Calvo identified me, as ”Pupy the sandunguero of Pogolotti” and the neighbors of La Timba (neighborhood where I I was born) they asked my older relatives why they said about Pogolotti, if I was born in La Timba, then I wanted to be okay with the two neighborhoods, when I made ”Los que Son…”

Well, I made that song in honor of the two neighborhoods, because I was born in La Timba, but I grew up in Pogolotti, and all my childhood friends are from Pogolotti, I don’t have friends in La Timba, and I consider that one is from where one is from. upbringing, not where he was born, because all the customs, friendships, first ”girlfriend” were Pogolotti’s.”

Which song is your favorite from Van Van’s golden era?

“If you talk to me about the songs from Van Van’s golden age, there are several, of mine the authorship of Maestro Formell and others of mine, for example of the maestro, there are several, “My doubts” ”Marilu”” The Painful” ”There are women” ”I’m everything” and one of mine: ”Six weeks “Sugar” ”The Negro is cooking” ”It must be over” ”That’s good ”, among many others, we live in a wonderful time”

Since August 2018, he was named Cultural Ambassador by the Latin Music Institute. Do you consider it an achievement or a new commitment?

“I consider both things, an achievement because it is not easy in a country with so much talent and so many performers to take me into account for said recognition, and at the same time a commitment, because I am obliged not to let my musical guard down in any way.” sense.”

Maestro comes from a family of great musicians, his grandfather a director, his father a pianist, both from great Cuban orchestras. Can we say that being a musician in your family comes in your blood? Is it inherited in the genes?

“Yes, sir, I am grateful for having been born in this family where there was so much musical talent, where only music was breathed, my autistic grandfather, director of an orchestra called ”Cuba”, my uncle a percussionist in an orchestra very famous for that ”Arcaño y sus Maravillas” era, and I believe a lot in the musical heritage because I consider myself a product of it.

As a pianist, it is because my fundamental patron was my father, from whom I copied and learned a lot from what I could discreetly practice and as a conductor, because I had the joy of having worked with different directors, Rolando Valdés, Enrrique Pérez, I assisted in substituting for my father and the ones I spent the longest time with, Elio Revé and Juan Formell, I spent 6 years with Revé and 32 with Formell and I learned a lot with both directors, I was lucky.”

To what do you owe your great success as a pianist and conductor?

“I think that to be good at any career, the fundamental thing is that you like it and have the aptitude for it, I think that music does not escape from that rule, because you can like it, but if you don’t have the aptitude, don’t waste your time, and Maybe if you have aptitude and you don’t like it, over time you may like it and fall in love with it, so aptitude is the fundamental thing.”

What is your greatest reference or influence in music?

“My greatest influence is Son, I love Son, rumba, guaguancó, Cuban music and Brazilian music, jazz, but my greatest influence is Son.”

Currently, how do you see timba within the island of Cuba? Minimized by Cubaton or leader of local rhythms?

“I believe that at all times, there have been different musical genres, which have been in the preference of the dancer, in the era of Rock and Roll they danced with Elvis Presly, with Bill Halle and his comets, with Little Richard, but also they danced with Aragón, Benny Moré, Sonora Matancera, among others,…

but today the balance leans more towards these foreign movements, good and bad, and that is happening all over the world, in the dance area, but I do not consider our dance music critical or dead, because there is taste for everything and every time “A convening orchestra performs on an open-air stage, it overflows with audiences, that means we are in battle, and the country that has the most musicians making a living from music is Cuba.”

Tell us about the 2019 projects? New CD? Tours?

“Fundamentally starting the next album, the release of a documentary of a tour we are doing in Cuba and some presentations abroad, to reappear again at the end of the year in Europe, with one of the dance hits from France:

”Having a good time”, I make a parenthesis, clarify that there are countries where our music prevails (El Son, La Timba, La Salsa) like Peru and Colombia, Cuban rhythms are still in fashion, thanks to many musicians and orchestras that make a great job for the dissemination, to the printed media and now the digital wave that quite develops our work, look, you are an example of this, we hope to continue giving our audience reasons to dance.

In August we return to South America, it is the tour we are most looking forward to, the Latin public is one of the best, we think about stopping in August in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, in the same way we are now planning to organize the calendar, for businessmen or producers who wish to have us in their cities, must contact our direct representatives, talking to them is like talking to Pupy”

What should a producer do to have them in their Latin American projects?

“No compadre, very simple, contact them at these numbers +573022582306 and +51992630351, they are the only ones authorized to market our tour, we want to be in all the cities of Latin America.”

Grateful teacher for your time and for letting us get to know you a little, may the successes continue for what they are.

“Grateful to you, thank you for the dissemination you make of the popular dance music of my island.

It remains to leave you the social media links of such an important orchestra so that you can follow in its footsteps and find out about the development of the successes of this great band, on Facebook:

@pupypedroso and the numbers

+573022582306 and +51992630351.

Salsa by the Bay

North America / USA / California
Salsa
Salsa

Salsa by the Bay is a perfect guide to publicize Salsa music from all its facets in the Bay Area, USA.

From dance instructors to the events giving rise to great protagonist of tropical Latin dance, here they show you. We from ISM you recommend this website and give you a guided tour of its different sections that you contribute information for highlights either as a professional dancer or as a simple fan of Salsa.

http://www.salsabythebay.com/

HOME Here you will find articles related to Salsa and its various specialties and categories. If you are new to salsa dancing or want to learn more about dance before entering a club this section is best suited to instruct.

Salsa On1
Salsa On1

Colombian-Style Salsa - Salsa On1
Colombian-Style Salsa – Salsa On1

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Salsa On2

Cuban Salsa Style
Cuban Salsa Style
Calendar BAV AREA SALSA EVENTS CALENDAR

BAV AREA SALSA EVENTS CALENDAR
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BAV AREA SALSA EVENTS CALENDAR 2

In addition, to sharing multiple images and data from different instructors, Salsa By The Bay draws up like a calendar with all salsa events taking place in the Bay Area. Each event is designed in detail for easy research and review, using different colors that characterize each event for this learned attend.

BAV AREA SALSA EVENTS CALENDAR 3
BAV AREA SALSA EVENTS CALENDAR 3
Guides and Instructor BAV AREA SALSA MAP

In this online platform you’ll get an interactive map with a visual design scene of Salsa bay area with caricatures of local teachers of this tropical dance.

BAV AREA SALSA MAP
BAV AREA SALSA MAP

BAV AREA SALSA INSTRUCTORS

Information and videos of all salsa instructors bay area are detailed. Click on profile for more information about the company, location and records of championships won instructor, and thus decide who you want to learn how to perfect your dancing, if that’s your case.

BAV AREA SALSA INSTRUCTORS
BAV AREA SALSA INSTRUCTORS

http://www.salsabythebay.com/ 

Teams and Bands BAV AREA SALSA TEAMS

San Francisco Bay is home to some of the most talented Salsa groups and experts in the world. If you’ve ever wanted to get into one, in this section you will find information and videos on all computers of Salsa in the bay area, from amateur teams and students to the world champions of salsa. There is team for dancers Of all levels. Click on profile and learn more about the team, their biography and location.

BAV AREA SALSA TEAMS
BAV AREA SALSA TEAMS

BAV AREA SALSA BANDS

San Francisco Bay is home to some of the bands of salsa and Latin music in the country. Here you are outlined from the award-winning Pacific Mambo Orchestra to local favorites: Advance and SASON Grammy, all with their respective discographies, contacts, stories and videos of the group. For more information on groups of Salsa that live in the Bay area, which is characterized as one of the focuses of salsa music live, click on the profiles of the band salsa of your choice and appropriate to listen to their music or hire for your event.

BAV AREA SALSA BANDS
BAV AREA SALSA BANDS
Djs BAV AREA SALSA DJs

The profiles of all we keep talented DJ dancing every night in the bay area to the rhythm of her heartbeat are in this last section. By clicking on their profiles learn more about them and especially where to locate. Here, also, their biography and how to contact them shown.

Salsa By The Bay a concept to learn more about Salsa. Visit it! ISM recommends you!

BAV AREA SALSA DJs
BAV AREA SALSA DJs

http://www.salsabythebay.com/

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Dance with me

North America / USA / California
Dance with me - Movie
Dance with me – Movie

Dance with Me was a film shown at the cinemas of the United States in 1998, grossing $ 15,814,088 in its entirety. Its genre is romantic cut – musical and its duration is 126 min. Directed by Randa Haines and starring Vanessa Williams and Chayanne, this film popularized once again music, and especially the Salsa with the magnificent and numerous musical dances that maintains and encourages all viewers of the film to go dancing this tropical rhythm.

Sinopsis

Dance with Me - scenes from the movie
Dance with Me – scenes from the movie

After the death of his mother, Cuban Rafael Infante attractive (Chayanne) decides to leave Cuba and travel to Houston, Texas, to meet his father John Burnett (owner of a dance school Excelsior), he does not know.

Upon arrival, Rafael does not know how to tell the truth to his father and began working as a cleaning assistant at school. They soon realize that he is a great dancer and include his in the dance they are preparing for the competition in Las Vegas.

His energy and enthusiasm inject new illusions in the dance school as lackluster and close to extinction In the Excelsior Rafael meets the beautiful Ruby (Vanessa L. Williams), a former dance champion determined to regain its status as one of the best professional dancers from the Latin ballroom dancing.

Vanessa Williams and Chayanne
Vanessa Williams and Chayanne

Familiar with all the sleight of men, Ruby fighting the attraction she feels for the newcomer seducer, whose vibrant style of dancing Salsa seems too spontaneous, due to the great sense of belonging that beget Latin cultures, and somewhat lower than yours.

Cultural differences between the two are reflected in different styles of dance. Ruby dances because she must win, Rafael by the pure joy of doing it. Both end up falling on the stage of a salsa club. And this sympathetic, fond upstart end up teaching professional dancer to relax her disciplined approach and to feel the music.

Vanessa Williams and Chayanne - romantic dance scene
Vanessa Williams and Chayanne – romantic dance scene

Data Sheet

  • Director: Randa Haines
  • Production: Shinya Egawa Randa Haines Lauren Weissman Music: Michael Convertino
  • Photograph: Fred Murphy Mounting: Joel Hernåndez (Dancer)
  • Cast: Vanessa Williams (Ruby Sinclair) Chayanne (Rafael Infante) Kris Kristofferson (John Burnett) Joan Plowright (Bea Johnson) Jane Krakowski (Patricia Black) Harry Groener (Michael)

Soundtracks

  • Refugio de amor – Chayanne ft. Vanessa Williams
  • Echa pa’lante (Cha-Cha mix) – Thalia
  • Eres todo en mi – Ana Gabriel
  • Fiesta pa’los rumberos – Abita
  • Heaven’s What I Feel Mix – Gloria Stefan
  • La patria – Rubén Blades Magdalenha – Sergio Mendes
  • Black Machine – Jazz Machine (Samba Ballroom)
  • Pantera en libertad – Mönica Naranjo • Suavemente (Mix) – Elvis Crespo
  • Tres deseos (Remix) – Gloria Stefan
  • Want You, Miss You, Love You – Jon Secada
  • Atrévete [No Puedes Conmigo] – Dark Latin Groove
  • Pa los que suena – Mauri Gonzalez
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