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Rodolfo Mederos
Rodolfo Mederos (born March 25, 1940) is an Argentine bandoneonist, composer and arranger. He lived in Cuba and France; in Argentina, he founded the experimental group Generación Cero. Early life Mederos was born in the Constitución neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. He spent his childhood in the province of Entre Ríos, and later went to the University of Córdoba to study biology. As a young man he was an admirer of fellow bandoneonist Ástor Piazzolla. He played with Piazzolla for several years before joining the Osvaldo Pugliese Orchestra, alongside other young musicians. 1960s After 1960 he formed his early groups to play at provincial radio stations and on television. When he heard Mederos's Octeto Guardia Nueva during one of his tours, Astor Piazzolla suggested that Mederos should travel to Buenos Aires. Piazzolla later returned to Córdoba and invited Mederos to appear in his recitals. In 1965 Mederos traveled to Buenos Aires and made his first record, ''Buenos ...
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Jazz Sinf Nica E Rodolfo Mederos (3765850998)
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African Americans, African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional music, traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swung note, swing and blue notes, complex Chord (music), chords, Call and response (music), call and response vocals, polyrhythms and Jazz improvisation, improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. Dixieland, New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphony, polyphonic Musical improvisation, improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical traditi ...
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Memorias Y Olvidos
Memoria refers to one of five canons in classical rhetoric. Memoria, or Memorias (Spanish), or Memórias (Portuguese) may also refer to: Books and texts * Memoria Apostolorum, lost text of the New Testament apocrypha *''Memorias'', Spanish-language memoir by Leonor López de Córdoba *''Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas'', Portuguese-language novel by Machado de Assis Films * ''Memoria'' (2015 film), based on James Franco's story "Palo Alto" * ''Memoria'' (2021 film), an internationally co-produced drama film Music Albums * ''Memorias'' (Camilo Sesto album), or its title track, 1976 * ''Memoria'', 2004, by Cuban singer Polo Montañez * ''Memoria'' (album), 2004, by the Argentine band Erreway * ''In Memoria: Medieval Songs of Remembrance'', 2007, by The Clerks Group * ''Memorias'' (Grupo Bryndis album), 2011 Songs * "Memoria" (Erreway song), 2004, by Erreway from the album ''Memoria'' *"Memoria", 2011, by Japanese singer Eir Aoi * "Memoria" (GFriend song), 2018, by Sou ...
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People From Buenos Aires
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form o ...
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Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ...
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1940 Births
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus and Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar become Roman Consuls. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 1 ...
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En Vivo (Selección Nacional De Tango Album)
''En Vivo'' is a live recording made on the 26 and 27 August 2005 in ND Ateneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina by the Selección Nacional de Tango a reunion of some of the best-known tango performers in the country with the musicians alternating between the roles of performer and arranger, which is unusual in tango. The album won the Premios Gardel for best tango album in 2007. Track listing Personnel The arrangements were by violinist Mauricio Marcelli, Ernesto Baffa, bandoneon players Leopoldo Federico, Rodolfo Mederos and Walter Ríos and pianist Nicolas Ledesma all of whom played on the album along with violinists Damián Bolotín, Eduardo Walczak, Mario Abramovich and Pablo Agri, viola player Mario Fiocca, cellist Diego Sánchez, bandoneonists Pablo Mainetti Pablo is a Spanish form of the name Paul. People *Pablo Alborán, Spanish singer *Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer *Pablo Armero, Colombian footballer *Pablo Bartholomew, Indian photojournalist * Pablo Brandá ...
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Joan Manuel Serrat
Joan Manuel Serrat i Teresa (; born 27 December 1943) is a Spanish musician, singer and composer. He is considered one of the most important figures of modern, popular music in both the Spanish and Catalan languages. Serrat's lyrical style has been influenced by other poets such as Mario Benedetti, Antonio Machado, Miguel Hernández, Rafael Alberti, Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and León Felipe. He has also recorded songs by Violeta Parra and Víctor Jara. Serrat was one of the pioneers of what is known in Catalan as " Nova Cançó" (Nueva Canción). Joan Manuel Serrat is also known by the names "El noi del Poble-sec" and "El Nano". Biography Childhood Joan Manuel Serrat i Teresa was born 27 December 1943 in the Poble-sec neighbourhood of Barcelona, to members of a working family. His father, Josep Serrat, was a Catalan anarchist affiliated with the CNT and his mother, Ángeles Teresa, a housewife, was from Belchite, Zaragoza in the region of Aragon. His childhoo ...
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Luis Alberto Spinetta
Luis Alberto Spinetta (23 January 1950 – 8 February 2012), nicknamed "El Flaco" (Spanish for "skinny"), was an Argentine singer, guitarist, composer and poet. One of the most influential rock musicians of Argentina, he is regarded as one of the founders of Argentine rock, considered the first incarnation of Spanish-language rock. Born in Buenos Aires in the residential neighbourhood of Belgrano, he was the founder of iconic rock bands including Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible, Spinetta Jade, and Spinetta y Los Socios del Desierto. In Argentina January 23rd is celebrated as "Día Nacional del Músico" (National Musician's Day) in honor of Spinetta's birth Spinetta devoted himself fully to his own music. In his lyrics, there are influences of multiple writers, poets and artists like Arthur Rimbaud, Vincent van Gogh, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Carlos Castaneda and Antonin Artaud, who has his name in the album ''Ar ...
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Mercedes Sosa
Haydée Mercedes Sosa (; 9 July 1935
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– 4 October 2009), sometimes known as ''La Negra'' (, an affectionate nickname for people with a darker complexion in Argentina), was an Argentine singer who was popular throughout Latin America and many countries outside the region. With her roots in Argentine , Sosa became one of the preeminent exponents of ''El nuevo cancionero''. She gave voice to songs written by many Latin American songwriters. Her music made people hail her as the "voice of the voiceless ones". Sosa performed in venues such as the



Contraluz
''Backlight'' (Portuguese: ''Contraluz'') is a 2010 Portuguese–American mystery and action drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has b ... film directed by Fernando Fragata. It stars Joaquim de Almeida, Evelina Pereira, and Scott Bailey. ''Backlight'' was the second highest-grossing Portuguese film in 2010. Cast * Joaquim de Almeida – Jay * Evelina Pereira – Helena * Scott Bailey – Matt * Michelle Mania – Lucy's mother * Skyler Day – Lucy * Joseph Hagler (as Joey Hagler) – Daniel * Donovan Scott – Old farmer * Ana Cristina de Oliveira – Motel Receptionist References External links * 2010 films 2010 action drama films American action drama films Portuguese action films 2010s mystery drama films English-language Portuguese films P ...
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Sus Ojos Se Cerraron
''Tangos Are for Two'' ( es, Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando, links=no, lit=Their Eyes Closed and the World Goes On) is a 1998 Spanish-Argentine drama film directed by Jaime Chávarri which stars Darío Grandinetti, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Juan Echanove. Plot A Spanish couturier immigrates to Buenos Aires in the 1930s seeking to meet Carlos Gardel. There she meets Renzo, a look-alike of the latter. Cast Production A Spanish-Argentine co-production the film was produced by Rocabruno, Aurum Producciones and Patagonik Film Group. The screenplay was penned by Raúl Brambilla, Óscar Plasencia whereas Rodolfo Mederos, and Daniel Berardi were responsible for the music. took over cinematography duties. Release The film was theatrically released in Spain on 23 January 1998. Reception Augusto Martínez Torres of ''El País'' deemed the film to be an "excellent musical" whose "great appeal lies in the skill with which Chávarri has managed to integrate 14 t ...
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Jaime Chávarri
Jaime Chávarri (born 20 March 1943) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter, best known for his films '' El desencanto'' and '' Las bicicletas son para el verano''. Life and career Chávarri comes from a prominent family. His mother María de la Mora y Maura (1907 – Segovia, Sotosalbos, 1 November 2001) was a maternal granddaughter of Antonio Maura. He had already graduated as a lawyer, when he entered the Escuela Oficial de Cine (EOC) in 1968.D’Lugo, ''Guide to the Cinema of Spain'', p. 139 He abandoned his formal film studies in his second year, moving into film criticism. He wrote for '' Film Ideal'' magazine. His first film industry job was an assistant director to José Luis Borau. while devoting his spare time to make two feature-length films in super 8: ''Run, Blancanieves, Run'' in 1967, and ''Ginebra en los infiernos'' in 1969. He worked with Ivan Zulueta in his series for Spanish television named ''Último grito'' (or ''The Last Cry''), and subseque ...
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