Francisco Amat Rodríguez (born April 22, 1950), better known as Pancho Amat, is a Cuban musician specialized in the
tres
Tres may refer to:
* Tres (instrument), a Cuban musical instrument
* Tres, Trentino, municipality in Italy
* "Tres" (song) by Juanes
* "Tres", a song by Líbido from their album ''Hembra''
* TrES, the ''Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey''
* Templi R ...
. In 1971, he became a founding member of Manguaré, which would become one of the leading ensembles within the
nueva trova
Nueva Trova (, "new trova") is a movement in Cuban music that emerged around 1967/68 after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, and the consequent political and social changes.
Nueva Trova has its roots in the traditional trova, but differs from it beca ...
movement. He later played in
Adalberto Álvarez y su Son
Alberto is the Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic ''Adalbert''. It is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. It derives from the Old German '' Athala'' (meaning noble) and ''Berth'' (meaning bright). Notable people ...
. Currently, he is the leader of his own group, El Cabildo del Son.
In 2010, he won the National Music Award given by the Cuban Music Institute.
Biography
He obtained his degree in
pedagogy
Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken as ...
from the
University of Havana
The University of Havana or (UH, ''Universidad de La Habana'') is a university located in the Vedado district of Havana, the capital of the Republic of Cuba. Founded on January 5, 1728, the university is the oldest in Cuba, and one of the first ...
in 1971 and studied classical guitar at the
Ignacio Cervantes
Ignacio Cervantes Kawanag (Havana, 31 July 1847 – Havana, 29 April 1905) was a Cuban pianist and composer. He was influential in the creolization of Cuban music.
A child prodigy, he was taught by pianist Juan Miguel Joval, later by composer ...
Conservatory. Also in 1971, he founded Grupo Manguaré, which he directed for more than 15 years.
He has workedin trios, quartets, ensembles, charangas, even making arrangements for symphonic orchestra. He has collaborated with artists such as
Joaquín Sabina
Joaquín Ramón Martínez Sabina (born 12 February 1949) is a Spanish musician, singer, composer, and poet. His songs usually treat about love, heartbreaks and society with a large usage of literary figures similarly to the baroque-literature st ...
, Oscar D'León, Pablo Milanés, Rosana, Ry Cooder, Silvio Rodríguez, Víctor Víctor, Yomo Toro, and Víctor Jara, and worked with Spanish rocker
Santiago Auserón
Santiago Auserón, also known as Juan Perro (July 25, 1954 in Zaragoza, Aragon) is a Spanish singer and lyricist. He was songwriter and vocalist of Spanish rock's Radio Futura. Auserón has been recognized with the Aragón Music Prize for Career ...
on the Juan Perro project. He has toured the United States, Europe and Japan with different groups of Cuban music.
In 1995, he released ''Son Por Tres'', which won the National Critics' Award at
Cubadisco. His second production, ''De San Antonio a Maisí''. was awarded the Best Traditional Music Album Award Cubadisco 2002.
Pancho Amat is a follower in Cuba of the work of famous tres players such as Arsenio Rodríguez.
In November 2012, he was selected for the opening of the sixteenth version of the DR Jazz Festival, along with important figures of the Caribbean strings such as guitarist Juan Francisco Ordóñez and "cuatro player" Pedro Guzmán, among others.
References
External links
*http://tradicionalesdelos50musicacubana.com/in-cuba-pancho-amat-is-called-the-tres/
*https://www.discogs.com/artist/800623-Pancho-Amat
*https://playingforchange.com/videos/pancho-amat-introduces-the-tres-cuban-guitar/
Tres players
1950 births
Living people
Cuban guitarists
People from Artemisa Province
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