Alain Perez,
Alex Cuba, Rey Ruiz, Ivan "Melon" Lewis, Jalil War, Paquito D'Rivera
and Sonlokos Septet Santiaguero, groups and Cuban musicians, will be hoping to
Cuba in the sixteenth edition of the Latin Grammy Awards 2015, which He held on
November 19 in Las Vegas (USA).
"We are
very happy (...) the mere fact of being nominated is already the prize for
us," the director of the Septet Santiaguero, Fernando Dewar, who aspires
to Lauro Best Traditional Tropical Album for her album "I do not want
tears told Efe. Tribute to Los Compadres "next to Jose Alberto" El
Canario ".
To the members
of the group founded in Santiago de Cuba (eastern Cuba), this volume is "a
point of excellence" in a 20-year career in the genre of traditional Cuban
music, which in the late 1990s He popularized worldwide through the "Buena
Vista Social Club".
On the album,
along with "El Canario", involved several international figures,
including several nominees and winners in previous editions, such as Oscar
D'Leon, Eliades Ochoa, Andy Montanez and Aymee Nuviola.
Septet for
this nomination means a double celebration because the album itself is
"very special", as "a tribute to the great masters who were Los
Compadres" and have been released for the 500th anniversary of the city of
Santiago.
In the same
category coincides Alain Pérez, a member of the group of the late Spanish
flamenco master Paco de Lucia, who returns to his roots with tropical praised
"the soul of the Son.
Tribute to
Matamoros "in tribute to the legendary Trio Matamoros. One of the
revelations in these awards was Ivan "Melon" Lewis, considered one of
the best pianists of the new generation of musicians on the island, who
competes to be the Best New Artist and also aspires to win the award in the
category of Best Latin Jazz Album with his album "Yesterday and
Today".
Alex Cuba also
won two nominations at this year's Latin Grammy, being chosen production
"Healer" among the candidates for Best Singer-Songwriter Album, and
his song "Ya began - in collaboration with Luis Enrique and Fernando
Osorio placed in the race get the trophy in Best Tropical Song.
Which aims to
take another two of the coveted golden gramophones is the composer and
guitarist Jalil Guerra, who says he is "happy to receive this news in my
country," he told the official Cuban newspaper Juventud Rebelde.
"I'm
happy (...) to be able to celebrate with the ensemble Soloists of Havana, and
its director Ivan Valiente, this blessing and success for all Cubans,"
said Guerra, who received two nominations for Best Classical Album and Best
Classical Composition Contemporary for "Portrait of the pigeon".
State media in
the obvious island in their reports about Latin Grammy nominations Cuban Rey
Ruiz, Paquito D'Rivera and Sonlokos group, founded in Miami in 2012 by the Cuban
timbales Raymer Olalde.
Ruiz, who
emigrated abroad in 1980, competes in the category of Best Salsa Album
"Seasons" while D'Rivera, live jazz legend, who won two Latin Grammy
in 2014 and strong critic Cuban revolution, repeated nomination for Best Latin
Jazz Album with his album "Jazz Meets The Classics".
To Sonlokos it
is the first opportunity in the prestigious awards of the Latin Recording
Academy, based in the United States, who aspire in the category of Best
Traditional Tropical Album with "Wicked son".
The 16th
edition of the awards will be broadcast live on the Univision Network from
20-00 ET US (00-00 GMT).
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