CURATION
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by Matrix
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Name:
Alain Pérez
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City/Place:
Madrid
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Country:
Spain
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Hometown:
Trinidad, Cuba
Life & Work
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Bio:
Alain Perez was born on April 20th, 1977 in Trinidad, Cuba.
He began as a vocalist in the Cielito Lindo group at 8 years old.
In 1988 he began his studies at the Manuel Saumel conservatory: classic guitar lessons, piano lessons and other subjects related to music.
1995 saw his first international presentation as vocalist in the Latin Jazz group Irakere, with Chucho Valdez.
He's gone on to also master the bass and now performs widely with his big band.
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
My Influences:
Mi Padre mi Madre la familia, los músicos de mi pueblo mí barrio, Cuba y toda su gente, Cielito Lindo, Chucho Valdez y el Irakere, Isaac Delgado, Arsenio Rodríguez, Chapotín, Benny More, Miguelito Cuni, Miguelito Valdez, Machito, Mario Bauza,Graciela, Celeste Mendoza, Celia Cruz, La Lupe, Maria Teresa Vera, Elena Burke, Omara Portuondo, Orquesta Aragón, Juan Formel y los Van Van, Oscar de León, José Alberto el Canario, Rolando Laserie, NG la Banda, Opus 13,Pablo Milanes, Silvio Rodríguez, Trío Matamoros, Sindo Garay, Ñico Saquito, Ignacio Piñeiro, Compay Segundo, Conjunto Casino, Roberto Faz, Barbarito Diez,Tito Gómez, Camaron,Caracol, Enrique Morente, Diego el Cigala,Guadiana, Los Muñequitos de Matanza, Yoruba Andabo, Afrocuba de Matanza, Clave y Guaguancó, Carlos Embale, Tata Guines, Changuito, Giovanni Hidalgo, Jerry González , Chano Pozo,Israel López Cachao, Jaco Pastorius, Feliciano Arango,Carlos del Puerto, Tito Puente, Eddy Palmieri, Fania All Star, Rubén Blades, Juan Luis Guerra, Cheo Feliciano, Héctor Lavoe,Santos Colon, Chico O’farrill,Antonio Carlos Jobim,Ivan Lins,Gal Costa, Elis Regina,Rosa Passos,Caetano Veloso,Ana Belen,Joan Manuel Serrat,Victor Manuel,Fito Páez, Ignacio Cervantes, Ernesto Lecuona, Leo Brouwer, Carlos Fariñas, Joaquín Rodrigo,Paco de Lucia, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Astor Piazzola, Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Chopin, Joseph Haydn, Isaac Albéniz, Manuel de Falla,.Granados, Bola de Nieve, Gonzalo Rubalca, Peruchin Pedro Justiz, Frank Emilio,Bebo Valdez,Oscar Peterson,Art Tatum,Glenn Miller, Thelonious Monk,Duke Ellington,George Gershwin,Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis,Jhon Coltrane,Clifford Brown,Freddie Hubbard, Joe Pass,Pat Mehteny, Jimmi Hendrix, BB King, Jhon Scofield,Herbie Hancock,Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea,Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong,Frank Sinatra,Los Beatles Steve Wonder, Ray Charles,Herat Wind & Fire,Kool & The Gang, Sting, Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Queen,Metallica,Phil Collins, En fín, música Oriental, Asiática y Africana, la naturaleza el mundo!
Clips (more may be added)
"In a small world great things are possible." Mathematics in the Matrix positions creators worldwide within reach of each other, step by step by step...
In this matrix it's not which pill you take, it's which pathways you take, pathways originating in the sprawling cultural matrix of Brazil: Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, European, Asian... Ground Zero is the Recôncavo, delineated by the Bay of All Saints, earthly center of gravity for the disembarkation of enslaved human beings — and the sublimity they created — presided over by the ineffable Black Rome of Brazil: Salvador da Bahia.
("Black Rome" is an appellation per Caetano Veloso, son of the Recôncavo, via Mãe Aninha of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá.)
Caetano Veloso
THE MATRIX MISSION: What do Jimmy Cliff, Jimmy Page, and Dionne Warwick all have in common? They've all lived in Bahia and Dionne is moving back (visitors include Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spike Lee, Michael Jackson, Beyoncé, David Byrne and Sting, among others). But so have lived and now live untold numbers of Bahian creators whose magisterial work has never had the major media means to reach beyond limited surroundings. In order that the creators of Bahia might have global reach, ALL creators must have global reach.
QED: 'mātriks / "source" / from "mater", Latin for "mother". We're real mothers for ya! (thank you Johnny "Guitar" Watson)
Susan Rogers
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers: Personal recording engineer for Prince, inc. "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"... Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory
"Thanks! It looks great!....I didn't write 'Cantaloupe Island' though...Herbie Hancock did! Great Page though, well done! best, Randy"
"We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow."
—Banch Abegaze: manager, Kamasi Washington
"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
—Clarice Assad: Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
—Julian Lloyd-Webber: UK's premier cellist; brother of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals: World's premier klezmer violinist
Developed here in the Historic Center of Salvador da Bahia ↓ .
Bule Bule (Assis Valente)
"♫ The time has come for these bronzed people to show their value..."
Recommend somebody and you will appear on that person's page. Somebody recommends you and they will appear on your page.
Both pulled by the inexorable mathematical gravity of the small world phenomenon to within range of everybody inside.
And by logical extension, to within range of all humanity outside as well.
8 billion human beings tend to within six degrees of connection to each other.
In a small world great things are possible.
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay (they paid).
I built the Matrix below (I'm below left, with David Dye & Kim Junod for U.S. National Public Radio) among some of the world's most powerfully moving music, some of it made by people barely known beyond village borders. Or in the case of Sodré, his anthem A MASSA — a paean to Brazil's poor ("our pain is the pain of a timid boy, a calf stepped on...") — having blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south, before he was silenced. The Matrix started with Sodré, with João do Boi, with Roberto Mendes, with Bule Bule, with Roque Ferreira... music rooted in the sugarcane plantations of Bahia. Hence our logo (a cane cutter).
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian. If you create too, join them in the Matrix.
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