Pablo Milanes was born in the city of Bayamo (capital the province of Granma ), Cuba. He studied music at the town of Havana. In the beginning was very influenced by traditional Cuban music and the feeling (feeling English language). The feeling is a musical style that began in Cuba in the forties and was a new way to tackle the track, where the sense defined the interpretation and was influenced by the U.S. current romantic music and jazz. The feeling was accompanied by a guitar in the style of the old troubadours but enriched by jazz harmonies. So establishing this new form of communication or feeling with the public.
As a performer, Pablo Milanes later joined the quartet The Buccaneers, with whom he collaborated in his early work. He also tried his occasional solo, thus diversifying their experiences would later take him to work alone. In 1965 published Pablo Milanes My 22 years, considered by many to be the link between the feeling and the Nueva Trova Cubana, including new musical and vocal elements that would be precursors of Cuban music that followed. Collaboration The Bucs reached up to 1966 . In 1967 he joined the military service. It was the era of the Vietnam War and Pablo Milanés began to side with social causes, appearing in their concern for the issues surrounding it. In 1968, Milano offers its first concert Silvio Rodríguez in the Casa de las Americas . This would be the first sign of what later, in 1972 would emerge as a popular musical movement of the Nueva Trova. In the same place known to the members of the elite culture and music of other American countries with whom he shared social concerns. Violeta Parra, Mercedes Sosa , Daniel Viglietti , Chico Buarque, Simone , Vinicius de Moraes , Milton Nascimento, Victor Jara among many others, passed through the Casa de las Americas at that time.
As a songwriter Pablo Milanés has played many styles, including Cuban are protest songs in the late sixties. Has belonged to Sound Experimentation Group and has written songs for films. Through GESICAIC both Pablo Milanes and other top musicians Cubans, including Silvio Rodríguez, participate in a creative workshop where young talent was teaching Cuban film the best of Cuban music, which later would be reflected in a generation of filmmakers who seamlessly blended music and film. Pablo Milanes this stage extends from late sixties to mid seventies, and is replete with themes of the artist: I do not ask , The early years, Cuba will , saw today, Yolanda , not ask me, roads, the singer Poor, Male you grow , I trample the streets again, and others.
In the early eighties, Pablo Milanes formed his own group, with the collaboration of several friends who were with him in the GESICAIC. This stage is characterized by the wealth of musical resources used and the variety of mixed gender, although its contents remain strong social background. An important album in the life of Pablo Milanes was entitled Dear Paul, a tribute album recorded with some of his best friends, and involving the likes of Victor Manuel Ana Belén and , Luis Eduardo Aute and Mercedes Sosa, among many others. This album had a sequel in 2001 , bearing the title of Paul Dear . Twenty years later, a handful of artists reunited to sing along with Pablo Milanés. On this occasion, as well as friends "classic" Paul, join the new music artists pop, as Fher (singer of Mexican rock group Maná ), Marco Antonio Muñiz or Armando Manzanero.
In 2005 up a part of the soundtrack of the movie Havana always led Ángel Peláez . Among his many songs, are especially famous: Yolanda , I stay, I love this island and The short space that you are not , To live and won much, much missed
Many artists have worked with him, among them: Ana Belén , Maná, Luis Dam Silvio Rodríguez, Joaquín Sabina , Caco Senante , Ismael Serrano , Joan Manuel Serrat , The Van Van , Carlos Varela , Lilia Vera, Víctor Manuel
0 comments:
Post a Comment