TONY CROATTO - Una canción nómada
Tony Croatto was born in Udine, Italy and moved to Uruguay with family that immigrated there shortly after World War II. From Uruguay to Argentina. And again, after moving from Argentina to Venezuela,in his late twenties Tony Croatto moved to Puerto Rico and made it his adopted homeland ever since. He found a richness in musical traditions in Puerto Rico that, he claimed, was extremely rare elsewhere in Latin America. In the 70s he formed a group "Haciendo Punto En Otro Son" that besides playing native rhythms from Puerto Rico, would also play songs from the rest of South America to introduce Puertorrican audiences songs of strong social thematics. Thanks to them, the almost forgotten Puertorrican country music (in this case, "mountain music","musica jibara")became popularized amongsts youths bringing an alternative to those who did not like salsa.
Tony Croatto died in 2005, a few hours after a concert held in his honor had ended.
A state funeral was given in Puerto Rico attended by famous artists, actors, politicians and the public. CLICK CROATTO (I had an opportunity to meet Senor Tony Croatto)
CANCION NOMADA
by Roy Brown
" A Tony Croatto, ese primer día,
mirando el Atlántico desde la muralla
de la fortaleza de San Felipe del Morro,
San Juan Viejo, el día que llegaste.
Borracha de palabra
la canción se hace persona
la sonrisa cual la espuma
flota y danza sobre el mar (...)"
YMA SUMAC - Le rossignol des Andes
Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo, click YMA SUMAC, with an amazing four or five-octave voice, was presented to the public as an Inca princess when she recorded Voice Of the Xtabay (1950). She was actually born in 1922 in Ichocán, Cajamarca, Perú. An urban legend says that Yma Sumac had been a housewife named Amy Camus (Yma Sumac backwards) from Brooklyn. Regardless of the stories about her background, there has been no one like her before or since in the annals of popular music or so called "pop-mannerism". In 2006 she visited her native Perú and received Perú's highest honor, El Orden Del Sol Award.
Maro's Film Review : MEDEA (1969)
U doba kad jos nije bilo leca za oci, mucila se uceci sve uloge u svakoj operi, jer zbog svoje jake kratkovidnosti nije mogla vidjeti dirigenta. U privatnom zivotu, izbjegavala je da je slikaju s naocarima. Pasolini je obozavao njezinu kraljevsku staturu i drzanje glave s neizmjerno dubokim ocima. U njegovu filmu Medea (1969) ona ne pjeva, samo glumi, u snivanom reziserovom antickom Mediteranu, punom boja, divlje muzike i Sunca, nimalo nalik na stereotipske "klasicne" muzejske predstave.
Umrla je od srcanog udara u 54. godini zivota, u drustvu dvoje slugu. Prema njezinoj zelji, spaljena je, a pepeo je rasut po Egejskom moru, u olujnom danu.Click Medea - Maria Callas
SABA - The Highest Point of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
On November 13, 1493 Christopher Columbus was the first European who sighted SABA in the Carribean. After that the island was in hands of the French, English, Spanish, and Dutch. Finally in 1816 Holland took possession of SABA. Before the "discovery" of Columbus in 1493, Arawak Indians used to live on the island, some objects were found to prove this settlement. Artifacts of this period and other objects can be found in the State Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, The Netherlands. SABA ("The Unspoiled Queen") consists largely of the dormant volcano. The Mount Scenery (888 m) at SABA is considered to be the highest point of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. There are not any beach areas on the entire island since the entire shoreline is made up of cliffs that drop straight down into the ocean.The locals claim that SABA's runway is the /click/shortest commercial runway.In 2002 a committee had been established to formally request UNESCO to declare SABA a World Heritage Site.
Maro's Film Review : BLONDE VENUS (1932)
Na kabaretskoj sceni, usred freneticne "egzoticne igre", pojavljuje se figura u kostimu gorile, dodajuci plesu element divljine i grubosti. "Gorila" sjeda i skida glavu, ispod koje se rastresaju Marleneini svijetli uvojci. S tijelom jos uvijek u ogromnom crnom zivotinjskom kostimu, ona pjeva "Hot Voodoo". Ne postoji filmsko svlacenje ovakva efekta! Click Blonde Venus (Marlene Dietrich)
LA LUPE - Pure Theatre
Guadalupe Victoria Yoli Raymond,click “LA LUPE”, revolutionized the Caribbean musical atmosphere. She brought an innovative spirit to her music, which captured the imagination regardless of the genre: guaracha, bomba, son, or bolero. She had achieved a certain unexpected fame in her native Cuba, where she was considered a revolutionary for her vocal style. Upon her arrival to the United States, she embarked on a new and equally consecrating stage of her career, one that would take on a new dimension alongside Maestro Tito Puente, with whom she would record four albums.She was considered to be one of Latin Music's Top Female Stars of all time and given the title, "Queen of Latin Soul. Her song "Puro Teatro" became an international hit after Spanish movie director, Pedro Almodovar used the song in his film "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" which received international acclaim. In 2002, New York City renamed East 140th Street in The Bronx as La Lupe Way in her memory. On June 5th 2007 the PBS series Independent Lens will broadcast "La Lupe Queen of Latin Soul," a documentary/click Preview1 Preview2 /on the legendary singer. Click LA LUPE Click BIO
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