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Meet The Dates Of Havana D’ Primera – Europe Tour 2022

Alexander Abreu & Havana D’ Primera will begin their concert tour in Serbia celebrating their 15-year artistic career

cinco personas cantando — Alexander Abreu with the Van Van at Tempo Latino 2022

Alexander Abreu & Havana D’ Primera will visit Europe in September with their 2022 tour to celebrate their 15-year career with love and music, starting on Saturday, September 3rd in Belgrade (Serbia), and two days later they will step on the Bulgarian salsa stage (Monday, September 5th).

Subsequently, they will sing their repertoire in Spain (Seville, Madrid, Bilbao, and Barcelona) on September 8^th, 9^th, 23^rd, and 30^th, and will continue in France with two concerts: on Sunday 11^th, they will be on stage on the Cabaret Sauvage (Paris), while the Sunday, September 25^th, they will do so in the Patio de Camargue (Árles). In the same way, their tour of Germany (Hamburg) continues on Thursday, September 15^th, and the 16^th of this month, they will be in Finland, specifically in the capital city Helsinki.

The 2022 Tour continues in Italy (Florence and Naples) on September 17^th and 21^st. The latter will be in the Sweet Life concert hall located in the Somma Vesuviana municipality of the Neapolitan city.

On Thursday the 22^nd, they will do the same at the Cuban Latin Festival in the Netherlands (Amsterdam) and will end their 2022 Tour 400 miles from Europe in Tunisia in the Yasmine Hammamet neighborhood located in the north of the African continent on Saturday, October 1^st.

16 personas en un escenario — Ticket prices vary between £30 and £100.

Alexander Abreu spent his childhood in the city of Cienfuegos (Cuba) where he began playing the trumpet at the age of ten and has currently become one of the most versatile and acclaimed Cuban musicians of Afro-Cuban music. “I have always seen Havana D’Primera with 15 people on stage and everyone said that it was impossible, that it would be too expensive, too difficult to move… This is how we started: 14 or 15 of us and a lot of positive energy, now we are stronger than ever.” Abreu commente.

Havana D’ Primera (HDP) is a Cuban timba band founded by Alexander Abreu in 2007 and made up of 17 of the best Cuban musicians. The orchestra is led by the main composer Abreu, who has stood out for his melodic voice and ability to fuse genres through Salsa such as Jazz, Funk, and other Afro-Cuban rhythms.

“Since its inception, the band has released five studio albums and one live album. The debut album release was Making History with EGREM in 2009 and their first release for the Páfata Productions record label. 2012’s Pasaporte received favorable reviews from the international press and was voted one of the best Latin alternative albums of that year.

Since then, they have followed the success of “Pasaporte” with four more albums, released through Páfata Productions and the last one in co-production with the Cuban Producciones Abdala.

HDP released “La Vuelta al Mundo” in 2015 and “Haciendo Historia LIVE” arrived in 2016. “Cantor del Pueblo” in early 2018, earning the band a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Salsa album. We cannot forget “A Romper el Coco” with the participation of Mayito Rivera released in 2019, and the single Quiero Verte Otra Vez (2020) which won the Special Prize at the 2020 Lucas Awards gala and was also cataloged by the French newspaper “Le Monde” as one of the favorite songs of Latin music.

Finally, in 2021 the album “Será Que Se Acabó” was released, as a tribute to Cuban popular music of the 80s and 90s. Discography extracted from the Biography of Havana D’ Primera.

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In Barrio Marianao in Havana, Cuba was born Armando Peraza was a Latin jazz percussionist

Peraza (May 30, 1924-April 14, 2014) was a Cuban Latin jazz percussionist.

Thanks to his collaborations with guitarist Carlos Santana, jazz pianist George Shearing and vibraphonist Cal Tjader between 1950 and 1990, he is internationally recognized as one of the most important figures in the field of Latin percussion.

Known primarily as a conguero and bongocero, Peraza is also a skilled dancer and composer. He has appeared on recordings by Pérez Prado, Machito, George Shearing, Charlie Parker, Tito Puente, Cal Tjader and Carlos Santana. Performances with Santana, Shearing and Tjader brought him international fame.

He was inducted into the Smithsonian Institute and had three “Armando Peraza Days” from the city of San Francisco.

One of the most important and respected figures in the world of percussion.

He is a legendary master on both congas and bongoes, whose unorthodox style and story are an inspiration to countless young musicians.

He began his artistic career in the early 1940s, played with singer Alberto Ruiz’s Kuvabana ensemble where he played the bongo and moved to San Francisco in 1949.

At the New York World’s Fair he played congas in an African pavilion with a Nigerian.

This African arrives and says to me: “Man, what part of Africa are you from? I told him, I am from Cuba. He said: “Don’t tell me” He later worked with the orchestras of Paulina Álvarez and Dámaso Pérez Prado, and the Bolero group.

In 1947 he moved to Mexico, where he joined with Mongo Santamaría the ensemble Clave de Oro, and in 1948 they both traveled to New York as percussionists accompanying the dance couple Pablito y Lilón.

At the end of that year, Peraza joined Slim Gaillard’s jazz combo with which he traveled throughout the United States. After arriving in New York in 1949, Armando became a sought-after musician, especially in the contemporary Bebop and Latin Jazz scenes.

Armando built a reputation for impressively fast and complex hand technique, experimental techniques and great talent for entertaining. He flourished in progressive atmospheres that combined jazz with Afro-Cuban styles and was at the center of a new expression called “Cubop”.

He has played on more than 100 albums and is the composer of more than 40 songs. Some of these works include collaborations with Mongo Santamaria, George Shearing, Cal Tjader and Carlos Santana.

Settled in San Francisco, California, in the early 1950s, Peraza began working with pianist George Shearing’s quintet, where he demonstrated his mastery as a player of the tumbadora and bongo; also in this period he recorded several albums of Cuban folk music with Mongo Santamaria.

In the 60’s he joined the quintet of vibraphonist Cal Tjader, with whom he remained for several years and with whom he popularized Chano Pozo’s Guachi guaro. In the 1970s, he joined Mongo Santamaría’s orchestra, with which he participated in the Montreaux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.

Later he worked with Carlos Santana’s rock band, in which he remained for 17 years, until his retirement from artistic life in the 90s.

He possessed a great capacity to obtain the most unusual sounds of the bongo and the tumbadora, and distinguished himself for his extraordinary solos on both instruments.

He died on April 14, 2014 in California, United States, as a result of pneumonia.

Fuente: https://kripkit.com/armando-peraza/

Casa de la Música, Playa / Miramar in Havana Cuba

The month of January 2022 in this prestigious and exclusive place in Havana the best talents, orchestras, singers of the island are being presented, every weekend a different artist with the musical quality that characterizes the Cubans.

Aila Mompie, Asi Son, Tanin Pantoja, Quinteto Maden, Lazarito Valdez y Bamboleo, Papucho y Manana Club, El Hijo de Teresa y la Llegada, Leonel Limonta y Azúcar Negra, Yvan y la Leyenda, La Octava Nota, Zule Guerra, Maykel Hores y RB Salsa, Charanga Latina, Waldo Mendoza, Yordano y el Hermano, Giraldo Piloto y Klimax, Vania, Ronny, Casabe, Max Max, Pascualito Cabrejas y Tumbao, among others.

Since it opened in the mid-nineties, this concert hall has consolidated its position as the temple of salsa and Cuban son in the capital. — a de la Música, Playa / Miramar in Havana Cuba

Since it opened in the mid-nineties, this concert hall has consolidated itself as the temple of salsa and Cuban son in the capital. The best bands have played on its stage and the programming continues to be irreproachable.

It is a beautiful place in Havana, where orchestras from different artistic catalogs of the country perform, a spectacular place to enjoy good popular dance music in its halls.

The house was built in the 40’s in one of the most aristocratic neighborhoods of the capital and was the headquarters of a lodge of the Masonic Foundation. It had two floors of masonry and tiles and included in its ample distribution a party room, stage, and auditorium, a premonition of what it would be half a century later. The Irrumpe Theater Group and the Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales (Cuban Fund of Cultural Goods) also passed through it, then sadness came over every corner of the House until EGREM knocked on its doors to break the silence and turn it into the House of Musicians and Cuban Music.

It began with the EGREM Award Gala in April 1995 and in October of the same year, with the concert of the great Cuban musician Chucho Valdés and the group Irakere, it passed the test of fire because this concert was recorded live in the memory of the House thanks to the latest technology equipment it has.

The House was created to exhibit and commercialize the Cuban discography in different media and to promote the recognition of the work of our artistic talents through live presentations, and as a complement to this, the gastronomic offer, always preserving the most genuine values of the national culture.

“International Salsa Magazine is SalsaGoogle.com“.

We are an organization that from the hand of its Founder, Director, and Editor Eduardo Guillarte, in force since 2007 has been working nonprofit helping to promote:

Orchestras, Singers, DJs, Clubs, Plastic Artists in North America, Europe, and Latin America and Asia and with the contribution of volunteers in various parts of the world, which at the same time invite and recommend all lovers, dancers of our Latin music to visit the Casa de la Musica, Playa / Miramar in Havana Cuba.

How to get there: Dale Click Aqui

Calle 20# 3308 cya Havana, Cuba 10400orner of 35 Miramar Pla

+53 7 2026147

Facebook: Casa de la Música de Miramar Playa

Fuente: www.ecured.cu

Aila Mompie, Asi Son, Tanin Pantoja, Quinteto Maden, Lazarito Valdez y Bamboleo, Papucho y Manana Club, El Hijo de Teresa y la Llegada, Leonel Limonta yAzúcar Negra, Yvan y la Leyenda, La Octava Nota, Zule Guerra, Maykel Hores y RB Salsa, Charanga Latina, Waldo Mendoza, Yordano y el Hermano, Giraldo Piloto y Klimax, Vania, Ronny, Casabe, Max Max, Pascualito Cabrejas y Tumbao, entre otros. — Casa de la Música, Playa / Miramar Beautiful place in Havana

Long live music and its unique and great protagonist, La Salsa y el Son Monte Adentro.

Article Interest: Quinteto D’Amore of Havana – Cuba

Lawrence and his Vanguard Orchestra I always went ahead of what I wanted and broke “The barriers”

Lawrence Daniel Ibarra Perdigón

The Vanguardia Orchestra was born on May 28, 2001, the name of Vanguardia comes because I always ahead of what I wanted and break the barriers, beginnings date back to 1974 in Block 6 of January 23 in Caracas, musicians rehearsing: Cheo Navarro, Miguel Pacheco, el Gordo Zambrano, Miguel Diaz, Edgar Dolor Quijada and my older brother who supports me and gives me a drum set.

My first professional presentation was with a group called Clave and Son de Caricuao, the director was David Zurita, I made my debut as a chorus singer, imagine if we only alternated with the Caribbean Classical Sonero, that was on May 1st 1983, then in 1985 I began my career as a bongosero in the Fundarte Workshops in the Aquiles Nazoa Library with Professor Orlando Poleo until 1987, the Orchestra Conductorship came later.

The Orquesta Vanguardia is made up of 12 musicians, all of whom have great experience and professionalism. The orchestra is made up of Vicente Frigeiro 1st trumpet, Douglas Villarreal 2nd trumpet arranger, and Miguel Sánchez 1st trombone. 2nd trombone Wilfredo Calderón, Percussion, Oliver Meneses timbal, Richard Avila tumbadoras, Jackson Monterola bongo and bell, piano Douglas Madera arranger and director, bass Elio Torres, singers and choirs José Cedeño, Pedro Rivera and Lawrence Ibarra.

Lawrence and his Vanguard Orchestra I always went ahead of what I wanted and broke "the Barriers". — Lawrence and his Vanguard Orchestra I always went ahead of what I wanted and broke “the Barriers”.

We have alternated, with figures like Hildemaro, Bailatino, Erick Francheski, Grupo madera. Manuel Guerra, Watussi, Naty y Su Orquesta, Noche Caliente, Son Madera Son, Mandinga Star Band, Orquesta Sabor y Swing, Orquesta La Oportunidad, Orquesta Saraguey, Sabor a Pueblo, Orquesta Sinsaye de Venezuela, Agrupación los Tan Tan, Pibo Marquez and his Criollo download, El Combo de Venezuela, Javier Plaza, music lovers meeting in Cali Colombia sharing on Channel 14 with Samir Bazzi and Eddie Saa Colombian singer, Radio Z te Prende with the Pepezon Cali Colombia.

As a bongosero I started in 1985 going through several groups such as: Clave y Son, Son Bacara, Son 27, until 2001 when I founded my own orchestra today Vanguardia, but it was for a short time in the Bongo with Vanguardia.

Beginning as a singer, thanks to the great teacher Oswaldo Morales, well known for his hits like Cinco Centavitos and Ella, I studied with him for about three years. In 2005 I recorded my first production entitled Marcando la Diferencia with 11 songs like SABROSITO by Jose Reina, Cheo Navarro’s Fashion Orchestra, Quiero llorar , Ni llanto ni Flores , Déjalo Volar by Composer Angel Flores, Escaleras de tu Mente by Fran Quintero and Ciriaco by Pedro Rivera With this first production we traveled to Cali and made ourselves known to the public.

I have 8 songs of which 6 are Originals and 2 versions of songs like; Eres tu this is the promotional song that has its video clip that can be viewed on YouTube, as Lawrence and his orchestra Vanguardia.

The Vanguardia Orchestra was born on May 28, 2001, the name Vanguardia comes because I always went ahead to what I wanted and break the barriers, beginnings date back to 1974 in Block 6 of 23 de Enero in Caracas, rehearsing musicians: Cheo Navarro, Miguel Pacheco, el Gordo Zambrano, Miguel Diaz, Edgar Dolor Quijada and my older brother who gives me the support and gives me a drum set as a gift. — Lawrence and his Vanguard Orchestra

I want to cry by Elias Escalona, Eduardo Serrano’s Barlovento, Viejo Chévere by Maestro Luis María Frómita (Billo), Guayabera no dé, Dame otra Tarde by Maestro Alfredy Bogado, Ven y Vacila by myself as well as Eres tu debuting as a composer and Vanguardia Son by Douglas Villarreal Arranger of this second production, Jose Guachafa Guzmán , Jose Tuky Torres, Douglas Madera and Douglas Villarreal.

Tours presentations clear promotional tour to Cali Colombia, Peru, Mexico presentations contrasts in VTV, covers in Venevision, Cota 800 Alba, Gaveguero and Bellaglio.

Promotional tour of Colombia in 2019, cities like Bogota and Cali, participating in radio and television, Fairs of Cali, currently I have my third production which consists of 9 unreleased songs and two video clips, Esa Mujer and Block 6 and placed on YouTube by the hand of Alfredo Montilla, musicians who participated Pianos: Douglas Madera and Sammy Infante, Bass: José Guachafa Guzmán, Julito Antillano and Eliot torres, Percussion: José Cheo Navarro, Carlos Guzmán, Enrique Sojo and Oliver Meneses, Trumpets: Vicente Frigueiro, Luis Ruiz and Douglas Villarreal, Trombones: Miguel Sánchez, Singers and Chorus, Edgar Dolor Quijada, Pedro Rivera, José Cedeño and Lawrence Ibarra, Recorded at Requena Studios, Recording Technician Francisco Requena.

Emisora Oye Ven por 106.9 FM — “En Vanguardia con Ritmo Salsa y Sabor”

Currently I have been 3 year in my new facet as a broadcaster, by the Emisora Oye Ven on 106.9 FM with the program that comes out every Saturday from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm which is entitled “En Vanguardia con Ritmo Salsa y Sabor” which I support the Venezuelan with talent, ephemeral music reviews and where everyone sounds.

Musical Production, Douglas Madera and Douglas Villarreal, Executive Production, Lawrence Ibarra

Photography by Alfredo Montilla

Contacts: Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @vanguardiaven

Mobile: 0412-998-14-06

Facebook: Lawrence Daniel Ibarra Perdigon

Article of Interest: José Madera Niño “Salsa became part of my growth”

Geovanny Leonardo Sepúlveda – “El Sonero de la Calle”

Geovanny Leonardo Sepúlveda, known as “El Sonero de la Calle”

Photo of Geovanny Leonardo Sepúlveda — Photo – Geovanny Leonardo Sepúlveda

He was born in the city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is a singer-songwriter (he composes and sings his own songs, including the lyrics and the melody), percussionist, raised on the outskirts of the Santo Domingo neighborhoods, he developed an interest in Afro-Caribbean music. This is how he obtains a clear direction towards the creation of his own style to compose and sing this genre, which involves a series of different rhythms such as: guaracha, rumba, son montuno, bolero, mambo, son, jazz, guaracha and cha cha cha, known worldwide by its trade name “Salsa”.

He tells us that from his mother Carmen Sepúlveda and his aunt Santa Julia Sepúlveda, he inherited the passion for jazz music, bolero and son, also that his mother is an artist, but he did not get to record their music, however he went to competitions of television expressing his musical talent. Geovanny mentions that he liked music from an early age seeing this great specimen in turn, he says that his talent is born and empirical which he is seeing how it progresses in these times.

Photo by Geovanny Leonardo Sepúlveda — Geovanny Leonardo Sepúlveda in Dominican Republic

During his tour he obtained his artistic nickname “El Sonero de la Calle”, which was given to him by a great Dominican musician (bassist and arranger) named Rafael Victoria, better known as maestro Cuso Cuevas (he was a popular bassist who played with the most important popular music groups and orchestras), who was in the recording of “Batato”, mentions that he advised him the following… “that he should not change his theme of making music, that it be a different sonero, a street sonero… that he could interpret the reality of the street with his lyrics and way of singing ”

He comments that he spent a large part of his life in Caracas, Venezuela (approximately 18 years), despite having been born in the Dominican Republic, considering it his second homeland since he adores and / or loves Venezuela; During this time he met Dudamel and Orlando Latuci, his song “las carabelas” is a Venezuelan.

The teacher Ubeny Loaiza and Geovanny Leonardo Sepúlveda
– Photo

He also had the opportunity to sing with the “La Realidad” Orchestra, from there he began to give his beginnings as a singer, it all began in 2003 when Roberto Ledezma was singing a bolero and the orchestra director listened to it and without Knowing that he was a musician and I invited him to go to one of the rehearsals and when to a place called Caño Amarillo Estudio, in Caracas, Venezuela, and there I was part of the team that at that time was very necessary since they lacked a vocalist, From that moment on he appeared in the bars of Caracas, in the center of the city, he told us that it was a wonderful experience.

As time passes, his fondness for this wonderful culture born in Africa is born, brought to the Antilles and then brought to New York, USA by great masters such as Johnny Pacheco, Machito, Beny More, Santiago Cerón, José Bello, El Canario, Tito Puentes, La Typica 73, among other great musicians of this genre.

Photo of Geovanny Leonardo Sepúlveda and Andi Montañez — Geovanny Leonardo Sepúlveda and Andi Montañez – Photo

His first musical album was entitled “A las malas”, from which his first single is called “Batato” and in his musical theme “Satte de los Callejones” he indicated “El Sonero de la Calle”, the following quote … “Special dedication for all the neighborhoods of my Dominican Republic and the world. My goal is to reach the heart of the town, Geovanny L. Sepúlveda, El Sonero de la Calle.

In the current Covid-19 pandemic, many activities have been closed, especially in the musical world, but with extensive communication over the internet, many have chosen to use various platforms either to promote themselves as artists or to hold events (Facebook, Instagram, Tick Tock, Youtube, among others), and despite these complicated moments he gives us the great news that Leo Aguirre and Ubeny Loaiza are in charge of the new production of Geovanny Leonardo Sepúlveda, his new single under the musical direction of Ubeny Loaiza, owner of the La Sabrosura orchestra, giving rise to the music “Salsa Pura” which is a Rumba, which you will not stop hearing

At the end of the interview, he gives us a message for the new talents … “Study and have a lot of dedication to what you like, never stop and that the rest is in the hands of God.”

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