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José María Cano
José Cano Andrés (born 21 February 1959) is a Spanish visual artist, musician, composer, and record producer. From 1982 to 1998, he was a member and principal composer of the Spanish pop-rock band Mecano. Since 1998, he works primarily in the visual arts. Musician José Maria Cano was born in Madrid, and gave his first concerts as a university student there. There he met Ana Torroja, who would become the lead singer in their pop band Mecano. Their first album, also called ''Mecano'' (1981) and produced with the financial backing of his father, included the hit "Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar". Both José and his brother Nacho composed songs for all their albums. In 1984, José began to play piano and changed his method of composition. He began to compose for other singers, such as Chayanne, Ana Belén, Amaya Uranga, Sara Montiel, Julio Iglesias, Miguel Bosé, Alaska, Françoise Hardy, Sarah Brightman, Simone, Mario Frangoulis etc. He composed songs that would become well know ...
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Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the third-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula. Capital city of both Spain (almost without interruption since 1561) and the surrounding autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also the political, economic and cultural centre of the country. The city is situated on an elevated plain about from the closest seaside location. The climate of Madrid features hot summers and cool winters. The Madrid urban agglomeration has the second-large ...
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Alaska (singer)
María Olvido Gara Jova (born 13 June 1963), better known as Alaska, is a Spanish-Mexican singer famous in Spain and Hispanic America. She was one of the founding members of the La Movida Madrileña, the cultural and artistic movement that followed the end of Francoist Spain. This movement, in which music, the arts, cinema and fashion erupted and collided to show what Spain had become under Franco. She has participated, since the late 1970s, in several music groups: Kaka de Luxe 1977, Alaska y los Pegamoides 1980, Alaska y Dinarama 1983, and since 1989, the Spanish electropop band, Fangoria. Today, Alaska continues to perform and has become an icon of 1980s Spain. Life and career Early life Alaska was born in Mexico City on 13 June 1963. Her father, from Asturias, Spain, was in Mexico living in exile during the Spanish Civil War along with her Cuban mother, who was also living in Mexico in exile from Fidel Castro. In 1973, two years before caudillo Francisco Franco died, her ...
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Luna (opera)
''Luna'' a 1998 opera by the pop musician José María Cano, a former member of the pop music group Mecano. It was performed in concert version in 1998 at the Palau de la Música de València in Valencia. Recording *''Luna'' – excerpts ''Canciones, Romanzas Y Danzas'' – María Pagés (dancer, castanets, singer), Ainhoa Arteta (soprano), Renée Fleming (soprano), Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Joan Albert Amargós Joan Albert Amargós is a Spanish composer and conductor born in Barcelona in 1950. Amargós is an instrumentalist on piano and clarinet, and has composed a number of chamber and symphonic works. He is also a great connoisseur of Flamenco, which ha ... (conductor/piano), Skaila Kanga (harp), Anthony Pleth (cello), Gerardo Núñez (guitar), Don César Sánchez (conductor/piano). Reissue 2018, 41 minutes References External links * , Agnes Baltsa, Plácido Domingo, Ainhoa Arteta, María José Martos 1998 operas Spanish-language ope ...
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Una Rosa Es Una Rosa
Una and UNA may refer to: Places * 160 Una, the asteroid "Una", an asteroid named after the Faerie Queene character * Una River (other), numerous rivers * Una, Himachal Pradesh, a town in India ** Una, Himachal Pradesh Assembly constituency, the state assembly constituency centered around the town ** Una District ** Una Himachal railway station * Una, Gujarat, a town in India ** Una, Gujarat Assembly constituency * Una, Mississippi, an unincorporated community in the United States * Una, Bahia, a town in Brazil * Uña, a municipality in Castile-La Mancha, Spain * Una National Park, Bosnia and Herzegovina * Una (Sava), a river in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia People * Úna, an Irish given name ** Oona, an Irish given name (Anglicised spelling of ''Úna'') ** Oonagh, an Irish given name (Anglicised spelling of ''Úna'') * Ùna, a Scots-Gaelic given name * Saint Hunna (aka St. Una) (d. 679) a French saint Women with the given name * Una Abell-Brinker (1874–1952) ...
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Naturaleza Muerta (song)
A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.). With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greco-Roman art, still-life painting emerged as a distinct genre and professional specialization in Western painting by the late 16th century, and has remained significant since then. One advantage of the still-life artform is that it allows an artist much freedom to experiment with the arrangement of elements within a composition of a painting. Still life, as a particular genre, began with Netherlandish painting of the 16th and 17th centuries, and the English term ''still life'' derives from the Dutch word ''stilleven''. Early still-life paintings, particularly before 1700, often contained religious and allegorical symbolism relating to the objects depi ...
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Cruz De Navajas
Cruz is a surname of Iberian origin, first found in Castile, Spain, but later spread throughout the territories of the former Spanish and Portuguese Empires. In Spanish and Portuguese, the word means "cross", either the Christian cross or the figure of transecting lines or ways. For example, in the Philippines, the adopted Tagalog word is rendered to "krus" in plain usage, but the Spanish spelling survives as a surname. The word "Cruz" (Spanish for "Cross"), as well as "Vera Cruz" ("True Cross") and "Santa Cruz" ("Holy Cross") are used as surnames and toponyms. Its origin as a surname particularly flourished after the Alhambra Decree of 1492 and the increasing activities of the Spanish Inquisition, when New Christian families with Crypto-Jewish, Moorish, and/or mixed religious heritage converted to the state-enforced religion of Catholicism and subsequently fashioned and adopted surnames with unambiguous religious affiliation. People with the surname General * Alberto Cr ...
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Tiempo De Vals
''Tiempo de Vals'' ( en, Waltz Time) is the fifth studio album recorded by Puerto Rican performer Chayanne, It was released by CBS Discos on August 7, 1990 (see 1990 in music). The album was the third released on the Sony Music label, and featured successful singles four singles that reach on ''Billboard'''s Hot Latin Tracks chart: "Completamente Enamorados" (that peaked #1 on that chart for five weeks), "Daría Cualquier Cosa", "Simon Sez" (which was the first song by Chayanne ever recorded in English), and "Tiempo de Vals". The song "Soleil, Soleil", is a cover of the song by Scottish pop group Middle of the Road, but with Spanish lyrics. The album sold 1,000,000 copies worldwide. The titular song "Tiempo de Vals" has become a staple as the opening dance for Quinceañera parties and wedding receptions in Latin America replacing earlier more traditional waltzes The waltz ( ), meaning "to roll or revolve") is a ballroom and folk dance, normally in triple ( time), perform ...
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Mujer Contra Mujer
"Une femme avec une femme" (Spanish: "Mujer contra mujer") is a 1990 song by Spanish pop band Mecano. In the late 1990, it was released as a single from the band's seventh album, released in 1988, ''Descanso dominical'', on which it appears as the third track. It became a hit in France, hitting number one for seven weeks. Also in 1990, the song was notably covered by the pop duo formed by Argentine singers Sandra Mihanovich and Celeste Carballo as the title track of their studio album ''Mujer contra mujer'', which is regarded as a landmark by the country's lesbian community. In 2003, the song was also covered by Saya, becoming a top ten hit in France. Background To obtain a hit in France, Mecano decided to collaborate with Pierre Grosz, a lyric writer, who had already written several songs for Elsa ("Quelque chose dans mon cœur", " Jour de neige"). Grosz accurately translated their song "Mujer contra mujer" to produce the French single "Une femme avec une femme". The music is ...
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Mario Frangoulis
Mario Frangoulis ( el, Μάριος Φραγκούλης, Mários Frankoúlis; born 18 December 1967) is a Greek vocalist and theatre actor, famous for his refined tenor vocals. Born in Rhodesia, Frangoulis after his three decade long career has established himself as a critically and commercially acclaimed recording artist and vocal performer in Greece and neighbouring countries. His initial rise to international prominence came with his hit song "Vincerò, Perderò" and his rendition of the song " Nights in White Satin". Discovered by Sir Cameron Mackintosh, Frangoulis has made his official theatre debut as Marius Pontmercy in ''Les Misérables'', and later performed in ''The Phantom of the Opera'' and the rendition of '' Grease''. He has recorded songs in Italian, Spanish, English, French, and Greek and is fluent in all five languages. Biography Early life Frangoulis was born on 18 December 1967 in Umtali (today Mutare), Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe) to Greek parents. When he ...
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