Luis Frank Arias

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Luis Frank Arias Mosquera , nickname El Macry , (born July 30, 1960 in Contramaestre ) is a Cuban singer, founder and band leader of the ' Soneros de Verdad '.

Life

Arias grew up as the son of a singer of Cuban songs and tangos in the city of Las Tunas in eastern Cuba. Before his career as a musician, he practiced karate and judo as a competitive athlete: around 1980 he played for Cuba at the games of the friendly armed forces in Moscow, but had to end his sports career as a result of a cervical fracture.

As a schoolboy in 1976 he had already made music with the jazz band Gigantes Miramar . After the salsa boom began , he started as a professional musician with the band Los Surix , of which he was the first voice from 1985 to 1995. He then went to Havana and joined the band La Mundial de Hudson , before he sang in the Conjunto (de) Roberto Faz and in the Orquesta Revé . Bandleader Elio Revé nicknamed him El Macry , which stands for a white follower of the black African religion.

Arias owed its international breakthrough to the boom in traditional Cuban son triggered by the music project Buena Vista Social Club in the late 1990s . He spent six years as the first voice in the group of the Buena Vista star Compay Segundo and worked with the band Afro-Cuban Allstars directed by Juan de Marcos González , who co-founded the Buena Vista Social Club project with Ry Cooder .

In his own formation Tradicional Habana , he also remained largely loyal to Son Cubano . The Soneros de Verdad , founded in 2001 by Luis Frank Arias - with Juan de Marcos González and u. a. with Pío Leyva from the Buena Vista Social Club - successfully interpreted the pieces “A Buena Vista: Barrio De La Habana” and “El Run Run De Los Soneros” , as well as contemporary arrangements of popular classics. They integrated ingredients from other musical styles, such as B. Jazz . The biggest hit of this time is "A Buena Vista" - the album of the same name was awarded a German Jazz Award in 2001 due to its sales figures . Another highlight of Arias' career in 2004 was his participation in the semi-documentary film " Música Cubana " , as well as the accompanying soundtrack.

In 2009 Arias was nominated for the Cuban record award Cubadisco for his singing on the album "Un bolero para el Benny" .

At several concerts in 2010 and 2011 Arias performed with the band Los Dos y Compañeros .

In the summer of 2013 Arias gave several concerts for the first time with the Soneros de Verdad in Germany with the well-known pop star Roberto Blanco as a guest singer. Arias had already been on stage with Blanco several years earlier and recorded his salsa CD You live better when you laugh in Cuba with the Soneros de Verdad and Blanco in 2011.

Luis Frank Arias has lived in Augsburg since 2018.

Discography (selection)

Solo albums

  • 2005: Homeland
  • 2008: Cuba Total
  • 2009: Rumba Macry
  • 2013: Se Me Occurre Un Bolero: I Think Of A Bolero

Albums with the Soneros de Verdad

  • 2001: A Buena Vista: Barrio de La Habana (DE: Gold in the Jazz Award)
  • 2004: El Run Run de los Soneros
  • 2004: Soneros de Verdad present Pío Leyva
  • 2007: Soneros de Verdad present Pío Leyva, Rubalcaba, Luis Frank
  • 2007: Soneros de Verdad present Rubalcaba: Pasado y Presente
  • 2010: Música Cubana
  • 2012: Soneros de Verdad
  • 2013: Un, Dos, Tres Soneros

Albums in other compositions

  • 1999: Viva Cuba (Luis Frank y su Tradicional Habana)
  • 2005: Música Cubana: The Sons of Cuba (film soundtrack)
  • 2008: Noches en el Café del Mar (with Guillermo Rubalcaba)
  • 2008: Un bolero para el Benny (with the Orquesta Termidor)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Luis Frank: el heredero del Buena Vista Social Club ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cubarte.cult.cu archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Peródico Cubarte of December 12, 2009, accessed on September 20, 2013 (Spanish)
  2. ↑ Nominados al Premio CUBADISCO 2009 . In: La Jiribilla, May 16, 2009, accessed September 20, 2013 (Spanish)
  3. ↑ Hard work in the rehearsal room . In: Oberpfalznetz from July 8, 2013, accessed on September 20, 2013
  4. ↑ Gold / platinum database of the Federal Association of the Music Industry, accessed on June 18, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Arias, Luis Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arias Mosquera, Luis Frank (full name); El Macry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Contramaestre , Oriente Province , Cuba