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The Sea of ​​Music will look at Latin America in its 23rd edition.
The festival organized by the City of Cartagena, which will be held from July 14 to 27, will make a Special Latin American Sounds with more than twenty groups from 12 countries in Latin America.
In addition, the festival continues to focus on its eclectic programming of which the first ten names have been advanced: Resident, Franco Battiato, Alpha Blondy, UB 40, Michel Camilo and Tomatito, Rosalía and Raül Refree, Rodrigo Leao and Scott Matthew, Estricnina the project Juanito Makandé and Canijo de Jérez, María Gadú and Leyla McCalla.
The complete program, along with the sale of tickets, will be announced at the end of April, where more than fifty groups will participate.
The Councilor for Culture, David Martínez Noguera, said that the main difference of this edition is that "we are not going to stick to a specific country, but we wanted to bring together the different musical styles that define the sound of Latin America and its Culture, which in many ways is very similar to ours. "
Resident will be in charge of inaugurating the festival of Cartagena, on Friday, July 14, when he will present his first solo album, after several years in front of Calle 13. In this new stage the Puerto Rican has decided to explore its roots, and In the final result, which will see the light next March 31, they maintain their unmistakable rhythms where they join the alternative rap with music from all over the world.
"His enormous social commitment and his demands for peace and justice are transmitted in each of his songs. He has become a clear defender of Latin American culture and what better ambassador could open the program of this year's festival," said Martinez Noguera.
El Canijo de Jerez, founder of Los Delinqüentes, and Juanito Makandé, formerly Radio Macandé, met 15 years ago, and after making numerous collaborations together, they decided to record a record and tour under the name of Estricnina to reflect their years of Friendship and musical collaboration.
His idea has been to create a hooligan group with good songs where they pay homage to the groups they have listened to since they were young, like Triana, Pata Negra, Poison, Meters or Pink Floyd.
The compadres, as they are called between them, will be in La Mar de Músicas on Saturday, July 15.
Michel Camilo and Tomatito are one of the most praised duos of contemporary music.
They have almost 20 years of alliance since joining for the first time to play at the Barcelona Jazz Festival.
Fruit of that union arose Spain.
Latin America, jazz, flamenco and cinema functioned as the four central axes of a record that marked the era.
The tour that happened to the launch of this work took the project by scenes from all over the world.
And it was in those multiple tours for the five continents in which emerged the natural continuation of Spain, Spain Again.
They come to La Mar de Músicas with the third installment of their trilogy Spain Forever.
Sunday, July 16.
That same Sunday the festival will host the musical revelation of the year the young Catalan Rosalía.
At age 23 he has released his first album, Los Angeles, with Raül Fernández Refree.
With death as a central theme both artists, starting with flamenco, trace new paths of difficult cataloging.
Novelty and experimentation to return to the old, the primary.
Apart from the conventions, Barcelona has dug in the more traditional roots of the genre and moves in Los Angeles those cantes remotos to its more personal and contemporary universe.
Rodrigo Leão, the founder of Madredeus and one of the most outstanding personalities of Portuguese music, will come to Cartagena with the unclassifiable Scott Matthew to present Life Is Long, a four-handed composite work in which balance, beauty and Orchestral sounds flood this work that has culminated a relationship that started in 2011 and has only gained height until it ends in a work in which Leo signs the composition and the production and Matthew is in charge of the voices and the melodies.
Together they will be in La Mar de Músicas on Tuesday, July 18.
Thursday 20 will be for the first time in Cartagena Franco Battiato.
Songwriter, musician, lyricist, composer, filmmaker, painter ... Franco Battiato is undoubtedly one of the most important personalities of the Italian and European cultural panorama.
His music is in constant evolution, and that is why his discography includes works ranging from avant-garde and experimental music, to classical and opera, to progressive rock and New Wave.
Author of hits as well known as Voglio Vederti Danzare, Prohibited Property, Bandiera Bianca or Centro Di Gravità Permanente, the Sicilian will come together with a string quartet and piano to demonstrate to the public that he continues to broaden his horizons to show off his eternal youth and immense musical talent.
His name has not sounded much in our country, but the nearly 10 million visits that have their videos on the networks give a clue about the phenomenon that has generated his proposal within the current scene of Brazilian music.
Born in Sao Paulo and projected artistically from Rio de Janeiro, it was the Bahian Caetano Veloso who, with his patronage, has finished catapulting Maria Gadu to the most absolute stardom.
Thursday 20th of July.
A day later will be the turn of the British UB40.
Few imagined that this multiracial group of working class friends from Birmingham in 1978 would become the most successful reggae group on a planetary scale.
UB40 has sold seventy million albums in nearly four decades and has placed some fifty songs on the UK charts.
Their versions of Red Red Wine (Neil Diamond) and Can not help falling from love (Elvis Presley) are among the most popular subjects of the 80's, and the people who thanks to them have become familiar with the music of Jamaica Count by millions.
With a new album and the classics will always be in Cartagena on July 21.
In Alpha Blondy the limits do not exist.
Reggae was said to have been Jamaican, but with Blondy that idea was over.
From Ivory Coast, he has taken the world by weight to be recognized as the greatest exponent of African reggae.
But Blondy is also an artist who demonstrates to what extent reggae has a social and political consciousness that is often ignored.
It is a rastafari of sweet voice, that denounces to reggae rhythm to the corrupt politicians.
He returns five years later to La Mar de Músicas on Saturday, July 22.
Leyla McCalla composes, sings, writes lyrics, plays the cello among other instruments.
It was part of Carolina Chocolate Drops.
He made his debut with the ambitious Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes, a tribute to Haitian Creole folklore, to the blues and to Langston Hughes, whose poems he performed in several pieces.
He comes to La Mar de Músicas to present his latest work A day for the hunter, a day for the prey a fantastic work where he sings to death and freedom.
Festival director Paco Martín highlighted that "The complete program of La Mar de Músicas will be announced at the end of April, where there will be great surprises. In addition, in a few days we will present the poster of the festival and we will announce the artist who will receive our prize".
The festival will feature its traditional parallel activities, La Mar de Arte, La Mar de Cine, La Mar Chica and Mar de Letras, and will have as its headquarters the Parque Torres Auditorium, the El Batel Auditorium, the Arab Castle, the Patio de Armas del Cuartel de Artillery and the San Francisco squares and the Town Hall.
In total more than fifty groups will be part of this 23 edition dedicated to Latin American sounds.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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