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Culture Of Guadalajara
The Mexican city of Guadalajara has served, since colonial times, as one of the strongest cultural hubs in the country and, as the capital of the state of Jalisco, it has absorbed, and contributed to adapt, many traditions from neighbouring towns and places. Being the second largest city in Mexico and the tenth most important city in Latin America, Guadalajara's cultural wealth has taken on an important role in the social, professional and economic sectors. Many well-known Mexican symbols have their origin in or around Guadalajara such as tequila, mariachi music, and, more recently, contemporary music such as electronic and rock music. Guadalajara is a city with a great number of contemporary artists in the country; in dance, theatre, music, photography, cinema, design, architecture, etc.; it also has pioneers in the experimental arts. The federal government represents and supports the cultural movement, but the young people are a very important point in the diffusion, creatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenda Velez
Brenda Vélez (born March 23, 1979) is a Mexican ballerina and architect. She is best known for performing in ''Swan Lake'' and in ''Giselle'' in Guadalajara's Teatro Degollado and owning VIA DANZA a dance academy in Guadalajara. Early life and career beginnings Brenda Velez was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco. At age 6 her parents brought her to an orthopedic doctor because of their daughter's feet. Brenda was flat footed having no arches on her feet. The doctor recommended her to take ballet classes. At age 8 Brenda began ballet in a local school in Guadalajara called Victoria Ballet Guadalajara. She commented that "At first it was for medical reasons then I learned to love it." At age 12 Brenda left for Mexico City to take a few ballet classes. She commented that "When I attended my first class at the school the teacher commented how late I started ballet and told me I should just have become a model." Brenda was taught by many teachers that were recognized in the state of Jali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Álvarez Félix
Enrique Álvarez Félix (5 April 1934 – 24 May 1996) was a Mexican actor, known for his roles in telenovelas and in films, such as '' The Monastery of the Vultures'' and '' The House of the Pelican''. Family and personal life Enrique Álvarez Félix was the son of Mexican actress María Félix and her first husband, Enrique Álvarez Alatorre. When his parents divorced in 1938, his mother lived for a time at home with her own parents until 1939, when she traveled with Enrique to Mexico City. Soon after, her ex-husband took Álvarez Félix. When his mother married Jorge Negrete he became the stepbrother of Diana Negrete. Álvarez Félix never married, and, according to Mexican novelist and essayist Carlos Fuentes, he was sexually frustrated, and had an Oedipus complex. Death Enrique Álvarez Félix died from a heart attack in the early morning of Friday, May 24, 1996, aged 62. Telenovelas A telenovela is a type of long miniseries which tells one self-contained story, typi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josué & Trópico Suemba
Trópico Suemba is a musical project created by Josué whose collaborators include several members of Mexico's most talented songwriters and performerIt is one of the chief exponents of the emerging movement NeoSon. Josué Josué Ignacio Pérez Flores was born in Mexico City in 1969 and spent there part of his early childhood. At four, he moved to the pacific coast ( Manzanillo, Colima). His first musical influences were his father, and avid music-lover, and the local rhythms such as Cumbia and Bolero. At eleven, he moved to Chicago to pursue his education. There he was exposed to Blues, Jazz, and American pop music. In 1984 he arrived in Guadalajara to attend High School and in 1987 he enrolled the University of Guadalajara to study music. In 1988 he joined the group Xel-ha, with which he had great acclaim in the late 1980s in Peña Cuicacalli, a famous place in the music scene in Guadalajara. They also performed in the Degollado Theatre, the most important theatre in the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NeoSon
NeoSon is an artistic movement developed in Guadalajara, Mexico, by a group of local artists, Josué Pérez being its main exponent. The movement was started in the early 1990s after a two-year tour by Pérez and Carlos "Charly" Garcia (one of the best multi-instrumentalists in the country) through 13 countries in Latin America, especially Brazil. The genesis was prompted by Pérez's perception of the lack of artistic innovation in Mexico experienced from the 1960s on. Although Mexican art has always had plenty of creative minds and people interested in its promotion, a considerable gap separated the country's artistic scene from those of other countries such as Brazil and Argentina. This separation was particularly felt after the concert of Avándaro (regarded as the Mexican Woodstock) in 1971, after which rock music in the country was object of repressions by the government, the media and the conservative part of Mexican society, until approximately 1984. The repressio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nopal Beat Records
Nopal Beat Records is a record label and music collective, based in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. It specializes in a fusion of electronic music with various styles of Latin music (a style usually referred to as acid cabaret). The name comes from the traditional Mexican vegetable nopal (an opuntia cactus, present in the coat of arms of Mexico). Nopal was founded in 1999 as an independent label. Since 2002, it has been associated with EMI Music Publishing as a joint venture under an administration agreement.Nopal Beat profile at the EMI website. Production *''Nopal Beat Compilation: Acid Cabaret 1'' *Through French label Cyber Production: **''Mexico Part ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huichol People
The Huichol or Wixárika are an indigenous people of Mexico and the United States living in the Sierra Madre Occidental range in the states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Zacatecas, and Durango, as well as in the United States in the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. They are best known to the larger world as the ''Huichol'', although they refer to themselves as ''Wixáritari'' ("the people") in their native Huichol language. The adjectival form of ''Wixáritari'' and name for their own language is ''Wixárika''. The ethnonym huichol comes from the adaptation to the language Nahuatl from the ethnonym wixarika, due to that in the language wixarika the a can be spoken like o; r y l are allophones, and the pronunciation of x, that was a sibilant, was read as an affricate, tz, between the 17th and 18th centuries (time period in which the word could have been borrowed), but the loss of the syllable -ka resulted in huitzol en náhuatl, and its hispanicization, wirraricas. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Clemente Orozco
José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican caricaturist and painter, who specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others. Orozco was the most complex of the Mexican muralists, fond of the theme of human suffering, but less realistic and more fascinated by machines than Rivera. Mostly influenced by Symbolism, he was also a genre painter and lithographer. Between 1922 and 1948, Orozco painted murals in Mexico City, Orizaba, Claremont, California, New York City, Hanover, New Hampshire, Guadalajara, Jalisco, and Jiquilpan, Michoacán. His drawings and paintings are exhibited by the Carrillo Gil Museum in Mexico City, and the Orozco Workshop-Museum in Guadalajara. Orozco was known for being a politically committed artist, and he promoted the political causes of peasants and workers. Life José Clemente Orozco was born in 1883 in Zapotlán el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Kant
Lewis Kant (born 1952 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born Mexican artist and writer who has lived most of his life in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Lewis Kant-Roterman Kant from an early age devoted himself to modeling and painting, obtaining in 1967, at the age of fifteen, the prestigious S.H.A. of Sculpture in his native Buenos Aires, where he was born on January 27, 1952. In the 1960s and 1970s, he carried out large Installations and Art Experiments, common in the searches of that time. Nationalized Mexican in 1996 and as such he is artistically known today. He lives and produces his work in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Self-taught, he currently works on sculpture in small and medium formats, both in fine woods and in bronze, silver and obsidian. His paintings are based on abstract-expressionist concepts with subtle lighting and a careful personal and unmistakable technique. He has resided and worked his art in Argentina, Brazil, Israel, Mexico, Switzerland and the U.S.A. Awarded i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucía Maya
Lucía Maya (born 1953 in Santa Catalina Island, California) is a Mexican painter, sculptor and lithographer whose work has been displayed at the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, the Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Museum of Tequila in 2015. She was born on Santa Catalina Island in California in 1953, but moved with her family to San Pedro Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico in 1957. In 1971 she began studying at the University of Guadalajara and, in 1974, she moved to Spain to study at the Academia de Bellas Artes San Fernando in Madrid. In 1978 she married the art history professor Gutierre Aceves Piña, from whom she separated in 1993. Her first exhibition was held at the Degollado Theatre. Apart from short stays in New Jersey, Argentina and Europe, Maya has lived in Guadalajara Guadalajara ( , ) is a metropolis in western Mexico and the capital of the list of states of Mexico, state of Jalisco. According to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Bernardelli
Atiliano Félix Bernardelli Thierry (1866, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil – 1908, Guadalajara, Mexico) was a Brazilian Mexican painter and musician. He spent most of his life in Mexico teaching art. Gerardo Murillo and Roberto Montenegro were among his pupils. Personal life He was the brother of Mexican-born sculptor Rodolfo Bernardelli and Chilean-born painter Henrique Bernardelli Henrique Bernardelli (15 July 1857 – 6 April 1936) was a Brazilian painter. Life and Works Henrique Bernardelli was born in Valparaiso, Chile. He was the brother of sculptor Rodolfo, and painter and violinist Félix. In 1865 he moved with .... He was of Italian descent. Selected paintings Image:Félix Bernardelli - Passaré ele.jpg, ''Will he pass?'', c. 1894 Image:Félix Bernardelli - Dança Mexicana.jpg, ''Mexican Dance'', unknown date Image:Academia Bernardelli.jpg, ''Academia'', 1892 Image:Chapala Bernardelli.jpg, ''Chapala'', 1899 Image:Félix Bernardelli - Chioggia.jpg, ''Chioggia'', u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Fors
José Fors Fierro (born 30 July 1958) is a Cuban singer and artist best known as the leading member of the bands Cuca and Forseps. Biography Fors was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1958. At the age of three he and his family moved to Miami, Florida where he studied painting. In 1967 his family moved to Mexico City, where he lived for the remainder of his childhood. Later on he moved again to Guadalajara where he has lived most of his life. In 1976 he studied anatomical drawing with Robert Martinez and started working with musical groups such as Mask and Lepra. In 1985 he developed an ambitious project with Carlos Esegé (''née'' Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez) called Duda Mata. In 1990, along with Ignacio González (drums), Galileo Ochoa (guitar) and (bass), he founded Cuca, a group that interprets irreverent songs in a hard rock style. In 1994 he left Cuca to initiate a new project, Forseps. In 2004 Cuca returned to the stage and recorded a live record on 14 May 2004. In 2005 he retur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
