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Cortes (surname)
( Castilian, Galician, Valencian), ( Portuguese), (Catalan) is a surname of Spanish and Portuguese origin, respectively. The surname derived from the Old French or , meaning 'courteous' or 'polite',Powell, Kimberly. "What Does the Name Cortez Mean?" About.com. Web. http://genealogy.about.com and is related to the English Curtis. The surname has become more frequent among Romani people in Spain than among the general Spanish population.''Diccionario de apellidos españoles'', Roberto Faure, María Asunción Ribes, Antonio García, Editorial Espasa, Madrid 2001. . Section III.3.8 page XXXIX. Notable people surnamed Cortes include: Mononymously known as Cortes * Hernán Cortés, (1485-1547), Spanish conquistador Arts and entertainment Film and television * Armand Cortes (1880–1948), American actor * Fernando Cortés (1909–1979), Puerto Rican actor * Fred Cortes (1921–1964), Filipino actor * Mapita Cortés (1939–2006), Puerto Rican actress * Mapy Cortés (1910� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of 20 countries. It is the world's second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's fourth-most spoken language overall after English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. The oldest Latin texts with traces of Spanish come from mid-northern Iberia in the 9th century, and the first systematic written use of the language happened in Toledo, a prominent c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mapita Cortés
Mapita Cortés (August 4, 1939 – January 1, 2006 born Maria del Pilar Mercado Cordero in 1939 in the Santurce barrio of San Juan, Puerto Rico – died in Mexico City), was a Puerto Rican actress of telenovelas and the cinema of Mexico. She is the mother of Mexican actor Luis Gatica, the wife of Lucho Gatica, the niece of Puerto Rican actress Mapy Cortés, and the niece in law of Mexican actor Fernando Cortés. Mapita Cortés is also the cousin of famous Paquito Cordero, two years her junior. Biography Cortés was Miss Puerto Rico in the 1957 Miss Universe pageant and finished as one of the top five finalists. Mapita Cortés had demonstrated desire to become an actress since she was a child. As she and her cousin grew, her cousin became a known personality in Puerto Rico. Mapita Cortés, however, tried her luck in Mexico, since her aunt had adopted her and was a celebrity there. Mapita Cortés took her last name from her uncle and aunt. Cortés became a sensation in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodrigo Cortés
Rodrigo Cortés Giráldez (born 31 May 1973) is a Spanish film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, writer and occasional actor. He is best known for directing the 2010 psychological thriller '' Buried''. Early life Rodrigo Cortés was born in Pazos Hermos (Cenlle, province of Ourense) on 31 May 1973, but soon moved to Salamanca, where he spent most of his childhood and his early 20s. Career Cortés' fondness for film making started at an early age. At 16 he had already directed his first short film in Super 8. In 1998 he directed the short ''Yul'' that won over 20 awards and in 2001 he released ''15 Days'', a fake documentary in the form of a large short film that earned over 57 awards at festivals, becoming the most awarded Spanish short film of the time. In 2007 he directed ''The Contestant'' (''Concursante'' in Spanish), his first feature film that was released with critical applause and earned several awards, including the Critic's prize at Málaga Film Festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Iván Esquivel Cortés
Sergio Iván Esquivel Cortés (8 December 1946 – 24 April 2021) was a Mexican singer-songwriter. He recorded more than 20 albums as a performer. He wrote more than 350 songs which have been performed by singers such as José José, Emmanuel, Christian Castro, Marco Antonio Muñiz Marco Antonio Muñiz (born 3 March 1933) is a Mexican singer from Jalisco, Mexico. Known all over Latin America, he also acted in the 1965 film '' Sinful'' ( Spanish: El Pecador). He belongs to the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Early life and car ..., Lupita D’Alessio, and others. References Mexican male singer-songwriters Mexican singer-songwriters 1946 births 2021 deaths People from Yucatán {{Mexico-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago Cortés (musician)
Santiago Cortés is a Latino-Swiss musician and composer. He has been producing music for TV and film, and doing regular DJ dance music gigs in the US, South America, Italy, Spain and Asia, since 1991. During 1997–2000, Cortés completed his education as a sound engineer and founded his own SMP label in 2005. In producing his debut album, ''Welcome to My Airline'', released in September 2005, he collaborated with musicians, engineers and producers in Europe and abroad, such as the lead singer Sonnie "Skip" Martin ( Grammy winner, New York) from Kool & the Gang and "Tony Martinez and the Cuban Power" (two time Grammy nominee, New York). For his second album, ''First Class'', he worked with various artists in the genre of house music, including Kim Cooper (Defected Records), Lynn Lockamy and Phil Dankner. Cortés had a Number 1 hit single and music video in early 2005 with "Don't Leave Me". It was accepted for N1 rotation on Viva Switzerland and on Latin-MTV in Miami M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramiro Cortés
Ramiro Cortés Jr. (25 November 1933 – 2 July 1984) was an American composer. Cortés was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1933 to Ramiro Cortés, Sr. and Elvira Cortés (née Acosta). He studied with Henry Cowell, Richard Donovan, Ingolf Dahl, Vittorio Giannini, Roger Sessions, Halsey Stevens, and, in Rome on a Fulbright Fellowship, with Goffredo Petrassi. He worked for a brief period in the 1960s as a computer programmer, and then taught composition at the University of California, Los Angeles (1966–67), University of Southern California (1967–72), and the University of Utah (1972–84). He died of heart failure in Salt Lake city on 2 July 1984. His earlier compositions employed serial technique, but beginning in the late 1960s he turned to a freer form of chromatic atonality Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key. ''Atonality'', in this sense, usually describes compositions written from about the early 20th-century to the present d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Cortes
Pamela Cortes is an Ecuadorian singer, actress and dancer. Early life and education Pamela Cortes was born on January 9, 1981, in Guayaquil , motto = Por Guayaquil Independiente en, For Independent Guayaquil , image_map = , map_caption = , pushpin_map = Ecuador#South America , pushpin_re ..., Ecuador. She started to study music and dancing when she was 7 years old. Since then, she has become a singer, actress, and dancer, who is well known in Ecuador. Cortes' entertainment career ambitions were supported by her family, which includes her mother, father and her two brothers. Career Pamela Cortes has been an artist since she was young. She took music and dancing classes in Conservatory Antonio Neumane and Danzas Jazz Academy of Guayaquil. In 1992, she won first place in "Los niños cantan a America". Later, in 1993, she was elected as "La Paquita Ecuatoriana" (Xuxa Stage Assistants) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lula Côrtes
Luiz Augusto Martins Côrtes, better known as Lula Côrtes (9 May 1951 – 26 March 2011), was a Brazilian musician, best remembered for his collaboration with Zé Ramalho on the 1975 album ''Paêbirú''. He released several albums, including ''Satwa'' (1973) and ''Rosa de Sangue'' (1980). He worked with Ramalho on other albums including his 1978 debut, ''Zé Ramalho'', '' De Gosto de Água e de Amigos'' in 1985 and '' Cidades e Lendas'' in 1996. Death Lula Côrtes died on 26 March 2011, in Recife, Brazil from throat cancer at the age of 61. Discography *1973: ''Satwa'' *1975: ''Paêbirú ''Paêbirú'' is an album by Brazilian artists Lula Côrtes and Zé Ramalho. The album was originally released in 1975 in music, 1975 and reissued in 2005 on Shadoks Music and later on by Mr. Bongo UK, in a very high quality Vinyl and CD Edition. ...'' *1980: ''Rosa de Sangue'' *1981: ''O Gosto Novo da Vida'' *1988: ''Bom Shankar Bolenath'' *1996: ''Má Companhia'' *2006: ''A Vida Não É S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Getúlio Côrtes
Getúlio Francisco Côrtes (born 22 March 1938) is a singer, songwriter, and music player from Brazil. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he began his career as a music artist by interpreting the music of American musicians such as Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong. Côrtes gained notability as a songwriter thanks to fellow Brazilian musician Roberto Carlos Roberto Carlos da Silva Rocha (born 10 April 1973), commonly known as Roberto Carlos, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who now works as a football ambassador. He started his career in Brazil as a forward but spent most of his car ..., who received wide appraise for his interpretations of songs written by Côrtes. These songs include: ''Negro Gato'' (1966), ''Atitudes'' (1973), ''O Sósia (1967)'', ''O Gênio (1966)'', ''Noite de Terror'' (1965), ''Por Motivo de Força Maior'' (1976). References External links Getúlio Côrtes no site Dicionário Cravo Albin de Música Popular Brasileira(in Portuguese) 20th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garðar Thór Cortes
Garðar Thór Cortes (pronounced , born 2 May 1974) is an Icelandic tenor of Icelandic and English parentage. A former child actor, Garðar subsequently trained as a singer in Vienna, Copenhagen and London. He has performed various leading tenor roles in operas, as well as a leading part in ''The Phantom of the Opera'' in London's West End. While insisting that he is first and foremost a classical opera singer, it was with his classical crossover album ''Cortes'', released in Iceland in 2005, that Garðar came to prominence. His debut album in the UK, also titled ''Cortes'', was released on 16 April 2007 and entered the UK Classical Charts at number 1. Family, early life and education Garðar was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, into a musical family. His father, Garðar Cortes Snr., was a world-class tenor who founded the Icelandic Opera, the Reykjavík School of Singing and the Reykjavík Symphony Orchestra. According to Garðar, his father had the same stature as Pavarotti a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmundo Villani-Côrtes
Edmundo Villani-Côrtes (born 8 November 1930) is a Brazilian pianist, conductor, arranger, music professor and composer. Biography Villani-Côrtes was born in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. He started out as a musician at age 9 by playing the cavaquinho, acoustic guitar and piano. He graduated from the Brazilian Conservatory of Music in Rio de Janeiro in 1954. Back to his hometown, he took and finished a law degree at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, having premiered there his own ''Concerto n.º 1 para piano e orquestra'' (''Concerto No 1 for Piano and Orchestra'') in 1956. Once in São Paulo, where he moved to study under José Kliass, he became a pupil of composer Camargo Guarnieri and an arranger of advertisement music; there, he won an honourable mention from the Brazilian branch of Goethe-Institut with his ''Noneto'' (''Nonet'') in 1978. In 1986, he won both first and second prizes in a contest organised by Editora Brasil Cultural (Brazil Cultural Publishing). Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Núñez Cortés
Carlos Núñez Cortés (born October 15, 1942 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an actor, composer, multi-instrumentist and singer. He has been a member of Les Luthiers since 1965 (during the "prehistory" of the group) until 2017, when he retired. He also wrote 3 books (in Spanish): "Los juegos de Mastropiero", "100 caracoles argentinos" and "Memorias de un luthier". In Les Luthiers, his functions included: * Creating new instruments (e.g. glamocot). * Composing (e.g. Las Majas, Teorema de Thales, San Ictícola, Epopeya de Edipo). * Vocal arrangements (e.g. Conozca el Interior). * Singing (e.g. Voglio Entrare, most Serenatas, A la Playa con Mariana, etc.). * Playing piano and synths as well as many other instruments (tubófono, recorder, washboard, glamocot, kazoo, coconut marimba, etc.). He is also an expert malacologist, owning an extensive collection of sea shells. He published a book on the subject, ''100 Caracoles Argentinos'', co-written with the naturalist Tito Narosky Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
