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If you want to listen to Tasty Salsa tune in to Ritmo Sabor y Salsa with Nesmary J. Gómez
Nesmary J. Gómez H. was born in Venezuela, Miranda state, city of Los Teques on January 9, 1995.
Nesmary is a young student of social communication at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela, Announcer of the Ritmo Sabor y Salsa program.
From an early age she felt attracted to the salsa genre and at 3 years old she sang Pedro Simon (dumb things) of the Colón orchestra when she turned 7 she already danced songs by Oscar D’ León and the Latin Dimension.
Afirma Nesmary Gómez que gracias a su abuela materna y quién ha sido fiel seguidora del sonero del mundo “Mi abuela Gloria Hueck a ella le debo todo lo que soy una mujer inigualable una madre para mi luego de la trágica muerte de mi mama, fue mi abuela quien me crío y crecí a su lado escuchando desde Óscar D León hasta un Ismael Rivera, Henry Fiol”.
With 12 Years she fell in love with the radio by being a very active listener of all the radios of the town making herself known by almost all the announcers earning the heart and affection for being the number 1 listener of different programs.
Being in the first year of basic education he had the experience of airing an educational program on the community radio Urquia 97.5FM being this radio the first to open its doors to him.
After 3 years she is taken into account for a new project as co-producer “El baúl de los recuerdos” on the community radio of Carrizal 91.5FM with the physically disappeared Jhonny Tovar, who with his great support was able to highlight the talent of this young woman, said project had a duration of 2 years.
The opportunities remained present and is called by the director of a commercial radio Carlos Daniel Piñango man who fully trusts this young prospect of broadcasting and is included as a second voice in the El Hormiguero RV program where he was nourished every day more when working with The announcer Mario García is a long-distance man who so far is a reference on Altomirandina radio.
When life began to smile at her a hard blow after the death of her second child made that young woman passionate about the voiceover lose the desire to live “I remember that by that moment I felt the desire to die, depression and pain led me to a bad emotional and physical state.
Thanks to our heavenly father who gave me strength to get up” The best way not to be overcome by pain was a radio booth starting as an audio operator in different live programs, in addition to motivating himself to create a project of the salsa genre called Salsa and Control project that lasted 4 years and was interrupted by situations beyond his will.
This talented young woman continues to prepare herself day by day to be an example of overcoming and show that obstacles can be overcome with perseverance and perseverance “There is no pain that separated us from what we like, on the contrary when you have pain the best thing is to take refuge in what we are so passionate about and mainly in God”.
For 1 year and a half has been airing a proposal that is giving something to talk about Ritmo Sabor y Salsa is Nesmary Gómez’s project on Radio PLENITUD 90.9FM Monday Wednesday and Friday between 2:00 – 4:00pm from where this year 2023.
Has been sharing in exclusive interviews with great exponents of the genre such as Mauricio Silva, Viti Ruiz, Pedro Arroyo, Edgar Joel, Lus “Perico” Ortiz, Gus Colón, Fernando Cancel, Antonio Cartagena, among many other artists.
Who appreciate the existence of this program that gives the audience the opportunity to know their musical trajectory in chronological order.
“I am one of the few people who think and feel that artists must be honored in life, let’s not wait for them to leave this earthly plane to pay tribute and place their songs, let’s give him that great satisfaction that You can enjoy it in life” said space recently premiered the segment “La Clave de la Salsa”.
In honor of that percussion instrument, to those two cylindrical wooden sticks on which many of the music of the Caribbean are built and for this case the salsa known as the key, in this segment the story of 2 songs that sounded insistently and that are still kept in the memories and taste of the public is known.
Nesmary recently received his speech certificate at the Elac of Santa Rosa University. Being one of the few female voices in Los Teques and all the Altos Mirandinos that has the perfect formula to brighten your afternoons in the company of a great audio operator known as Carlos “Lolo” Marrero the duo that is delighting you and dictating catedra quoting those words of the renowned singer Roberto Lugo “If you want to listen to a tasty salsa tune in to Ritmo Sabor y Salsa there is no hay más na”.
Also Read: Lizna Tovar winner in the category Voice Over of the year 2022 in Canary Islands Tenerife
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Euroson Latino World Salsa ChampionshipDec 04 / 09 2023 Hotel Grand Oasis Cancún Blvd. Kukulcan Km 16.5-Lt45-47, Zona Hotelera Cancun, Mexico, 77500 |
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Feria de Cali 2023Dec 25 / 30 2023 Parque de Las Banderas Santiago de Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia |
Lengaïa Salsa Brava is killing it in Montréal
Latin talent can be found where you might least expect it and, this time we found it in the city of Montreal, Canada, a place that is cultivating an increasingly large and vigorous Latin music scene. On this occasion, we were thrilled to be able to talk to Giany-Frantz Huyghues-Despointes, who is the leader and founder of the orchestra Lengaïa Salsa Brava.
Lengaïa Salsa Brava is a 12-member salsa orchestra that was created in 2012 by Giany, who was also a trombonist and had some experience in the world of music before daring to create his own group.
The effort of all its members has enabled them to collaborate with great performers of the genre and win important awards such as the Canada Latin Awards in the category of ”Salsa Group of the Year” in a row in 2017 and 2018 respectively.
Lengaïa Salsa Brava has also performed approximately 30 concerts a year since its foundation and has participated in important festivals such as Toronto Salsa Festival, Festival Nuit Blanche de Montreal, Nuits d’Afrique, among others. The group was greatly helped by the fact that its members come from different countries such as French Guyana, Cuba, Colombia, Peru, Quebec, Spain and Venezuela.
This interesting journey shows us how hard this group has worked to achieve a place within the industry and all the potential they have to achieve much more than what was obtained. Today, Giany, its founder, shares a little more about himself and his orchestra Lengaïa Salsa Brava.
Giany’s beginnings as a musician
Although the trombone is the instrument for which Giany is known, he started playing the trumpet from 10 years of age, which is when he began his interest in this branch of the art.
An important point is that in French Guyana, the country where Giany was born, salsa is not a predominant genre, since the most played by the French Guyanese is the mazurka, which is very similar to the Haitian compas. In the case of Giany’s family, they listened to a bit of everything, including salsa.
A turning point for the artist was watching Celia Cruz singing on tv one day. The musician had never heard the Cuban singer before and it was an incredible experience for him, as her deep voice, colorful outfit and wig caught his attention at the time.
Because of her deep voice, he thought she was a man, but his mother explained to him who Celia was and, months later, took him to a concert to see her live. That performance of ”La Guarachera de Cuba” marked him so much that he would begin to lean towards music in the future. Today, he says that Celia is a spiritual mother to him, as she was his great inspiration.
Along with being a fan of the Cuban singer, he wanted to learn to play instruments and initially opted for the piano and the guitar, but that changed when his Spanish teacher at school gave him a trumpet and he discovered that he really liked to play it.
Some time later, he graduated from the national school of music in his country and, by the time he turned 18, Giany noticed that his musical skills excelled more with the trombone than the trumpet. This is how he decided to choose the trombone as his main instrument and so it has been to the present time.
He started playing classical music with that instrument but soon discovered that he wanted to return to the genre that captivated him when he was just a child, so he dared to create a group in France, where he studied aviation. The thing is that he went to live in Canada six months later and had to abandon the plans he had at that time.
Founding of Lengaïa Salsa Brava
Giany arrived in Canada with the vision to create another group in his new country of residence, but he did not know any musicians yet, so he moved into action and started placing ads on social networks and other virtual means to communicate with artists who were interested in joining his project.
The results were amazing and there were many musicians who contacted Giany because of their interest in the concept proposed by him. With this group, he started assembling the orchestra in order to give form to what Lengaïa Salsa Brava is today. The orchestra has six years with the same staff and format it presents to the public today.
Huge number of nationalities in Lengaïa Salsa Brava
As for the large number of nationalities living in the orchestra, Giany has said that all ”are part of a big family” hinting that national origins have not been a problem for the smooth development of the group. In addition to that, the salsa brava is a genre widely known worldwide, so the members of the orchestra knew in advance what they were getting into.
To what we must add that these guys work or have worked in other salsa brava orchestras, so they were pretty much steeped in everything related to this beautiful music.
Giany says it is very easy to work with his musicians because they always know how to perfectly interpret what he wants.
Origin of the name Lengaïa Salsa Brava
When Giany was looking for a name for the group, he wanted something different and not very Latin sounding. He also wanted people to ask what the name meant, so we have fallen into the trap.
The musician explained that he wanted something that refers to how explosive, energetic and aggressive his music is, so he chose the name inspired by a Tanzanian volcano called Ol Doinyo Lengaï that spews black lava. ”When you see a volcano exploding, you imagine something explosive and aggressive at the time. That’s what we want to reflect with our music”. Also, the fact that its lava is black is something different from other volcanoes, as is the group’s orchestration and technique,
Activities outside Lengaïa Salsa Brava
Giany wanted to emphasize that all the members of Lengaïa Salsa Brava have other jobs and work activities outside the orchestra. In his particular case, he works as a commercial pilot, but in his spare time, he devotes himself as much as he can to his great passion which is music.
So far, Giany and the other members of the orchestra are unable to live solely on music, but they do their best to keep the group together and are there to fulfill Lengaïa Salsa Brava whenever necessary.
Although the orchestra has been a second employment option, it is undeniable that this is their great vocation and the engine that moves his life, so there will always be space for it.
Four nationalities united in Ladama
Talent can come from the most amazing and unexpected origins and more when we are talking about music, a branch of art from which always emerges people with a lot of potential who can completely break our schemes. This leads us to introduce the topic of a group of four young musicians and singers who joined their skills despite their apparent differences. They are the musical group Ladama.
Ladama is an alternative Latin music band composed of four members of different nationalities: Venezuelan Maria Fernanda Gonzalez, Brazilian Lara Klaus, Colombian Daniela Serna and American Sara Lucas.
Three of the four members of the group spoke exclusively with International Salsa Magazine and this report will show some of the topics covered during this pleasant conversation.
Origins of Ladama as a group
The conversation was started by Lara and Dani, who explained a bit about the rise and concept of the band. The group was created in 2014 while the girls were doing an artistic residency known as OneBeat, which was sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. They were selected to represent their respective countries, which led them to socialize with each other and discover the great chemistry between them because of the language and genres they played.
Since OneBeat was an initiative towards cultural exchange between artists and offered the necessary technical equipment to record music, they took full advantage of this space to get to know each other’s styles and see what they could do together.
Once the month-long residency was over, each went their way, but they kept in touch via Skype a year after having met. The motivation to create a project that would encompass a musical band and teaching classes to minority communities remains intact.
They wanted to create an initiative in which community, creativity, social impact and cultural exchange would be the fundamental pillars of Ladama. It was always clear that they not only wanted to make music, but also do something that would positively impact upon society and they think they have succeeded so far.
As for the name Ladama, it is simply a combination of the first two letters of the names of each one: ”la” comes from Lara, ”da” comes from Dani and ”ma” comes from María Fernanda. At the same time, ”La dama” in Spanish means ”The lady”, which also refers to the fact that it is an all-women group.
How did these different origins coexist in Ladama?
We were very impressed by the fact that all Ladama members came from different countries, so we wanted to know how this impacted the group. Lara answered that the only thing they needed was the desire to play together and move this initiative forward, which means that the origin of each one was not a problem to found the group.
Just like every other band, each one had her own ideas and they discussed them together to know which one to choose or not.
Their major test was given during the Rec-Beat Festival in Brazil. They arrived only a few days before the event, so they could barely rehearse and set up the repertoire. Despite the haste, they feel that everything went very fluidly, as they spent time meeting with each other and writing some songs for an occasion like this.
Given that Lara, Dani and Maria Fernanda come from Latin and tropical countries, there are certain rhythms that sound so much alike, which they took advantage of to unify them and create completely new rhythms that sound good at the same time. Lara also pointed out that these mixes are in constant change and they always try not to get stuck in the same styles.
In addition to that, Ladama has left traditional music behind a little bit and has focused on alternative music and other genres such as pop, soul and R&B.
Dani addressed the topic of genres by saying that they do not follow a plan in which they have something specific to play or mix. Any of their songs can go from Dominican merengue and Colombian cumbia to trap and reggaeton without any problems. They do not like to limit themselves and always seek to reach all audiences.
Ladama in a Tiny Desk concert series
Playing on Tiny Desk (a series of live concerts organized by the radio program All Songs Considered in the United States) is always a prestige for any artist or group that performs on that platform, which is inviting Latin singers more frequently every time.
The girls were at a festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where they had the opportunity to meet the curator of Tiny Desk, who would invite Ladama to record their session in Washington D.C. shortly thereafter.
Lara considers that this was a great opportunity to spread their work due to the large number of people who always tune in to Tiny Desk, in addition to the many artists they knew after their appearance on the platform.
For her part, María Fernanda commented that, on that same occasion, they took the opportunity to bring instruments from their own countries so that the Tiny Desk audience could get to know them. She also stressed that this session will be an important audiovisual document for history that will serve as an inspiration for other musicians in the future.
It was a great achievement after all that hard work.
Music classes for the community
The members of Ladama have also been focusing on music classes for the community at large, mostly in schools and universities. In their four countries, they have given workshops of all kinds related to music in the languages they speak, which are, English, Spanish and Portuguese.
the artist emphasized that they always try to do this type of activities together in the very countries where they offer live performances. They have total freedom to do things separately, but they prefer to carry out these activities supporting each other.
Although they offer classes to anyone who is interested, Latino children are a very important group for Ladama, as many of them often have some problems of identity and adaptation to the United States. When they arrive at school in this country, they often disguise or even hide their Latino roots in order to fit in with their peers, so these classes are an opportunity for them to reconnect with that identity they begin to leave behind.
These workshops and classes also serve as additional income for the group, as they can not only support themselves through tours and festivals. These educational activities are another way to diversify their earnings and have more stable inflows of money.