Rubén Rada
Omar Rubén Rada Silva (born July 16, 1943 in Palermo , Montevideo , Uruguay ) is a Uruguayan singer, percussionist , composer and actor. Since the late 1960s he has been considered one of the most influential musicians in his country and a symbol of the Afro-Uruguayan minority and its culture. His music particularly mixes the traditional Afro-Uruguayan music style of Candombe with indigenous music, various other styles of Latin American music and western music genres such as jazz , rock and funk .
Youth and early career
Rada grew up in the Palermo district of the Uruguayan capital Montevideo, where he came into contact with the music of the Uruguayan carnival , the candombe and the murgas . In addition to working as a singer in his uncles' Murga group, for which he received an award for “Carnival Discovery” when he was twelve, he made his first experiences in the professional music business as a teenager in the early 1960s. First as a singer in the orchestra of the salsa and candombe musician Pedro Ferreira, then at the age of 17 - under the pseudonym "Richie Silver" - as the front man and singer of the Dixieland band Los Hot Blowers , which released a total of three EPs and an extensive tour Chile undertook. Other band members included the young Federico García Vigil and the brothers Osvaldo and Hugo Fattoruso, who shortly afterwards became important representatives of the beat wave sloshing across South America as Los Shakers . His album Richie Silver from 2006 pays homage to the music of that time, when Rada was strongly influenced by the music of Little Richard and tried to sing in English using phonetic transcription to express his idols from the field of rock and roll and Getting close to rhythm and blues . The album contains the old original recordings of the two songs "Angélica" and "Mil cariños" by the Hot Blowers as bonus tracks .
El Kinto and Tótem
Shortly thereafter, however, Rada developed his own musical style. He first achieved greater fame in the mid-1960s as a singer and percussionist in the band El Kinto Conjunto (later shortened to El Kinto ), in which, together with Eduardo Mateo and other band members, he further developed the traditional candombe music in an experimental form to a music style that later called Candombe Beat or Candombe Rock . They founded this style of music by playing candombe for the first time with electric instruments and adding influences from beat music , psychedelic rock music, bossa nova and other genres. In contrast to many other - mainly beat-influenced - Uruguayan bands of the time, the members of El Kinto sang exclusively in Spanish. The band quickly gained popularity in Uruguay; numerous TV, festival and club appearances followed.
In 1971 Rada, u. a. with the former El Kinto members Mario "Chichito" Cabral and Daniel "Lobito" Lagarde, the band Tótem . This band carried on the idea of Candombe Rock, drawing attention to the musical heritage of the Afro-Uruguayan minority. All three albums by this band were initially released by the local De la Planta label, which also released the influential solo debut Eduardo Mateos and the LP Musicación 4 by El Kinto .
Solo career and band projects
Rubén Rada's long career as a solo artist has also been shaped by the mixing of various musical influences. Although Rada had already recorded a solo LP called Los Manzanas for the Sondor label in 1969, he only became known as a solo artist in exile, into which he was forced - like many other Uruguayan musicians - by the military coup of 1973. His stay in the USA from 1977-78 led him a. a. with Ray Barretto , Flora Purim , Tom Scott and Hermeto Pascoal . In addition, he founded the Fattoruso brothers, with whom he already early 60s at the Hot Blowers had worked, the jazz - fusion band OPA , before returning late 70s to South America, where he regularly between Buenos Aires and Montevideo commuted. As a result he released several albums, including Universal and EMI , which achieved gold or platinum status in Argentina and Uruguay. He worked with various international artists on recordings, such as B. with Hiram Bullock , Anton Fig , Joan Manuel Serrat and Jon Anderson . Songs from his pen have been covered by Milton Nascimento and Herb Alpert , among others .
Rada has been awarded the Premio Gardel , the most important Argentine music prize, several times . In July 2011 the Latin Recording Academy officially announced that Rubén Rada would be awarded a Latin Grammy for his life's work on November 9, 2011 in Las Vegas .
further activities
Rada has taken on minor roles in films and TV series since the 1960s. So he was part of the ensemble of the comedy show Telecataplúm . He has also directed various TV and radio shows. In 2004, he voiced the voice of Lucius Best / Frozone in the Argentine version of the animated film The Incredibles . He played a major role in 2007 in the Uruguayan sitcom "La oveja negra" ("The Black Sheep").
Discography (selection)
with El Kinto
- Musicación 4 ( De la Planta , 1971)
- Circa 1968 (1978)
with Tótem
- Tótem (De la Planta, 1971)
- Descarga (De la Planta, 1972)
- Corrupción (De la Planta, 1973)
as Rubén Rada
- Las Manzanas ( Sondor , 1969)
- Camerata Punta del Este (Sondor, 1975)
- Radeces (AYUI, 1975)
- Botija de mi país (Sondor, 1987)
- Montevideo (Big World, 1996)
- Montevideo Dos (Big World, 1999)
- ¿Quién va a Cantar? ( Universal , 2000)
- Alegre Caballero (Zapatito, 2003)
- Candombe Jazz Tour ( EMI , 2005)
- Richie Silver (EMI, 2006)
- Bailongo (S-Music, 2008)
- Fan (MMG, 2009)
- Confidence - Rada Instrumental (MMG, 2011)
- El album negro, 50 obras maestras , 3CDs set (MMG, 2011)
Web links
- www.negrorada.com
- Rubén Rada's profile on allaboutjazz.com
- Rubén Rada in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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.
- ↑ http://www.hkw.de/de/programm/2010/lifelines_03/projektdetail.php
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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.
- ↑ http://www.10musica.com/notas/17221-RICHIE-SILVER:-El-otro-yo-de-Rub%C3%A9n-Rada ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.solesdigital.com.ar/discos/richie_silver.htm
- ↑ http://www.solesdigital.com.ar/musica/ruben_rada.htm
- ↑ http://www.latingrammy.com/en/press/213-recipients-of-the-2011-special-awards
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rada, Rubén |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rada Silva, Omar Rubén (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uruguayan singer, percussionist, composer and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palermo , Montevideo , Uruguay |