Vistar Magazine No.14

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GUEST ARTISTS: SHEENA/ FERNANDO PÉREZ/ PUPY PHOTOGRAPHY: ALFREDO SARABIA
INSPIRATION: RAUPA CUBANS OVERSEAS: PICADILLO NOVEL ARTIST: MAGDA
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SUMMARY
MAY
2015
SUMMARY
MAY
2015
48. YOUNG FILM MAKER AWARDS
13. NEWS
54. FINE ARTS
CONCERT
60. CUBANS OVERSEAS
PICADILLO
18. MAYKEL BLANCO
20. JACOB F. AND EL DANY
62. DANCE
24. ENTRE TÚ Y YO AWARDS
63. THEATRE
26. DELUXE MIXOLOGY IN HAVANA
64. CUBAN CHARTS
28. Y ESA #%N&@?
30. TOP-TEN BY ADRIANO DJ
32. SANGRI-LA
68. PICTURES WITH CELEBRITIES
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COVER
VAN VAN, ONE YEAR LATER
34. ARCE
INSPIRATION
GUEST ARTIST
RAUPA
56
PHOTOGRAPHY
58
46
NOVEL ARTIST
44
ALFREDO SARABIA
08
GUEST ARTIST
SHEENA
4
May 2015
FERNANDO PÉREZ
MAGDA
GUEST ARTIST
PUPY
36
May 2015
5
#14
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May 2015
LETTER FROM
THE CREATIVE
TEAM
How many memories do we keep
in our lifetime? Well, not many…
If we start thinking about each
day in reverse order we will be lost
before we get to the past weekend,
but if we try to recall the happiest
moments, we will spend days trying
to remember all of them we will
leave some things out, but they will
stock little by little. Why do I draw
this conclusion?... simply to reflect
on how many memories we have
forgotten and how many things that
happened will not be recalled again.
A good memory makes you feel
happy, when you feel a scent and
despite the fact that fifteen years
have passed, images just come to
your mind thanks to your olfactory
memory. Thanks to your visual, or
spiritual one (although I am not so
sure about the latter one because-
probably some scientist will have
the arguments to bring you back to
earth… Darwin and company).
But it is not so difficult to reminisce and it has a lot to do with
your present mood and the one of
the recalled past. The more positive or negative it was, the more it
stands out in your memory stock.
When we asked each member
of Van Van to tell us anecdotes
of their time with the band and
unforgettable moments with Juan
Formell, some wept, while others
kept talking with a grin in their
faces.
This issue is dedicated to all
who feed themselves with good
memories.
Roll with us!!!
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I AM A LUCKY
PERSON
“
“
By: Lourdes García
Photos: Alejandro Alfonso
She says her first audience were
the neighbors, and the shower,
the ideal stage for her first songs.
Cheerful, warm, and above all
very sincere, Yoanna Álvarez
or Sheena, as she is known in
the music industry, is a young
woman who cherishes her
dreams to live them in her way.
If you talk about labels, there
is no straitjacket for her. Sheena
challenges herself; she tries and
experiments with new ways to
synthetize herself. This girl from
Sancti Spiritus, who wanted to be
an actress first, is today a versatile woman who does not believe
in prejudices. Unleashed, sexy,
spontaneous, and a bit hot, she
decided to open herself to VISTAR
to talk about her passions.
“I am from a family with
music transcendence, so from
the moment I was born I was
surrounded by diverse music
genres, but what I really liked
was acting. I even took the tests
for the Higher Institute of Art
(ISA in Spanish), but unfortunately after passing several
stages I failed the final one”,
expressed Sheena a bit hurt by
this experience which represented an obstacle in her career.
Having both feet on the
ground, Yoanna did not stop to
seek art. She understands that
the sensitivity for this world is
intertwined to her genes and that
the universe conspired to put
her in the place she deserved. “I
always think that life puts things
in your way and in that sense,
I am lucky person. After this
stumble, I signed up for an artistic
production course, and shortly
after I joined my first band, the
quartet Los que llegaron primero,
directed by Osmany Espinosa.
That was my first huge shock on
being on stage, the media and the
record studios” says with a grin in
her face.
Eventually she decided to try
on other genres and decided
to sing with Anacaona, an
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“
SANDUGA RAN IN MY BLOOD,
BUT I HAD TO OWN THE STAGE
MORE AGGRESSIVELY
“
all-woman team, which helped her
to conquer the stage and become a
dominant woman on stage, captivating and seductive.
“At the beginning, being in
Anacaona was a bit difficult
because I had to learn many things
on the go. Sanduga ran in my blood,
but I had to own the stage more
aggressively, learn how to play
several instruments and improvise. All of that challenged me and
gave much strength”, commented
Sheena, who launched her solo
career two years ago, combining
music, photography and audiovisual production.
One of the many nicknames
she has had was given to her in
Anacaona. Due to the passion
she radiates in photography,
Sheena was “the crime reporter”.
No moment could escape her
lens. “That passion comes from
my father. The peace it offers me
complements the volatility of
music. When I decided to take a
risk with my solo career, I set to
do thing that allowed me to have
time with my family and enjoy life,
because we only have one. I love
being on stage, but I very much
enjoy looking at people through my
camera, and I also feel comfortable
when I am being photographed”,
friskily confessed the interpreter
who shook Cuba a few months ago
with the song Hay que darles palo
(They have to be smacked) featuring
Insurrecto.
Now Sheena shares stage with
Yuly y Havana C. “This is one the
prettiest moments of my life,
because I have been able to experiment a lot. I feel complete and
happy, which is why I thank everything that happens around me. If
you made me choose among the
many things I do I would have my
back against the wall, because I put
a little bit of myself in every step I
take”.
“WHEN I DECIDED TO
TAKE A RISK WITH MY
SOLO CAREER, I SET TO
DO THING THAT ALLOWED
ME TO HAVE TIME WITH
MY FAMILY AND ENJOY
LIFE, BECAUSE WE ONLY
HAVE ONE. I LOVE BEING
ON STAGE, BUT I VERY
MUCH ENJOY LOOKING
AT PEOPLE THROUGH MY
CAMERA”.
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QUESTLOVE
IN HAVANA
IF YEARS AGO THE PRESENCE
OF INTERNATIONAL MUSIC
HEAVYWEIGHTS IN CUBA
WAS RARE, FORTUNATELY
THINGS ARE CHANGING,
AND DAY BY DAY MORE AND
BETTER FOREIGN ARTISTS ARE
CONQUERING OUR STAGES.
A FEW MONTHS AGO WE HAD
THE DEAD DAISIES, BUT ON
THIS OCCASION QUESTLOVE,
DRUMMER OF THE ACCLAIMED
BAND THE ROOTS (CHOSEN
BY THE READERS OF ROLLING
STONE AS THE EIGHTH BEST
DRUMMER OF ALL TIME)
DELIGHTED US WITH A SIDE
TO HIS ACT THAT IS PERHAPS
LESS KNOWN BUT EQUALLY
GOOD: AS A DJ.
He had two presentations.
In the first one it had been
announced that he would share
stage with the Cuban DJ BJoyce,
but Questlove took over the
consoles for more than five hours
in a session that ended with
current Cuban music. It was like
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May 2015
By: Ana Patricia Marzoa
a wink to his audience, showing
that he had done his homework
and knew exactly what the
dancers in front of him were
listening to.
For the second presentation
he decided to raise the stakes.
He shared stage with two
Cubans, the very BJoyce and the
producer Edgaro. The word had
been spread of the spectacular
presentation the night before, so
the room was packed with those
who had gone purposefully to be
amazed. And they were. Not only
by the particular playlist and the
way the songs were linked, but
also by the presence on stage of
Josh Klinghoffer, guitar player of
Red Hot Chili Peppers, who also
gave a statement that filled us
with impatience: he expressed
that he wants his band to come
to play to Cuba.
Questlove, the man that together with his band has been
nominated thirteen times to the
Grammys, of which he has won
three; who also entertains with
his music in the TV show The
Tonight Show Starring Jimmy
Fallon, seen by millions every
weekend; and who has produced
for great artists like Elvis Costello,
Jay-Z and John Legend… Questlove was in Havana.
We hope this is not the last
time. We hope he returns and
brings his entire band. But more
importantly, we hope others
follow his example and play for
us so they can notice we have
been listening to them for years,
and now they can let us then,
listen to them live.
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
WANTS TO
PLAY IN
CUBA
Josh Klinghoffer, guitarist of Red
Hot Chili Peppers ascertained in
Havana that the famous US rock
band wants to offer a concert
for the numerous followers they
have in the island, a figure that,
according to his own words, took
him by surprise. “We wanted to
come to Cuba for a long time.
So when I told everyone that I
was coming, they all wanted to
come with me. But we will do it
soon. Once a week I bring up the
subject of coming to play here”,
he assured the Cuban press after
having accompanied his friend,
drummer and DJ, Questlove on
stage at F.A.C.
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NEWS
In just a few days Yuniesky
Gurriel will be part once again of
the starting lineup of the Québec
Capitales –member team of the
Canadian-American Association
of Professional Baseball- and
some Cubans are already theorizing about his performance.
As good mathematicians, they
propose figures and strategic
solutions.
With great expectations and
the eagerness to surpass his
performance, the eldest Gurriel
packs his luggage to share this
100 game season with other
fellow Cuban baseball players
like Alexei Bell, Ismel Jiménez and
Yordan Manduley, rookies in this
northern league of great history.
Amidst the media fuzz and
the physical preparations, VISTAR
talked to Yuniesky about his new
possibility to shine out of Cuba.
“Last year, although we could
not win the title, I had a promising performance. I expect the
season to be decisive to claim the
crown”, expressed Yuniesky in an
exclusive.
“I have prepared well. This is
a complex challenge since the
league is quite difficult, where I
face AAA and AA players who are
well-prepared. From a sporting
and human point of view it gives
me knowledge and, of course,
helps me to improve my game
with Industriales”.
Though shy, as he describes
himself, the truth is Yuniesky
Gurriel unfolds himself in the
game and utterly enjoys it.
Perhaps that is the hook for
his new recruitment with the
Québec Capitals, another opportunity that, undoubtedly, will
take place again as long as
baseball keeps being his raison
d’etre.
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May 2015
YUNIESKY
GURRIEL
SETS COURSE FOR CANADA
By: Lourdes García
Photo: Alejandro Alfonso
Photo: Courtesy of the interviewers
MARIANA
Y LA MAKYNARIA
STILL
CONTROLLING
THE AREA
“OUR FIRST
ALBUM WAS
PURELY DIGITAL,
VERY URBAN.
WHEN THINGS
STARTED TO GET
IN GOOD SHAPE
EVERYONE
WANTED TO BE
PART OF IT”.
PROMOTION
Names can deceive in
some cases; in others,
they reveal a lot about
the person who bears it.
That is the case of the
band Mariana y la Makynaria, since it describes
its music production.
About to release the
second album Controlando el área (Controlling
the area), we talked to
Mariana and MC Brea,
who have developed
together the project
from the beginning:
“We make true fusion.
We work with all types
of Cuban music, from
top to bottom, like salsa,
reggaeton, ballad. But
rap is always going to
be present, which is our
signature”, commented
Mariana.
Although the project is
new, its directors had
worked with Soneros
de Verdad, members
of Buena Vista Social
Club. To pay tribute to
some of the greats of
the latter –who are no
longer with us-, this
new production dedicates a remix of the
song A Buena Vista to
them, taken from the
movie Música Cubana.
The band was created
as a friend reunion to
record an album, De
vuelta aquí (Back here)
and then decided to
include other musicians
and try to move on: “Our
first album was purely
digital, very urban. When
things started to get in
good shape everyone
wanted to be part of
it. The musicians we
had been working with
wanted to be in it and
well, four of us started,
now we are thirteen”,
told us MC Brea.
Every week they release
at least one new track
for the consideration
of the public. “For
example, our song Que
más quieres de mí (What
else do you want from
me), recently uploaded
to Facebook had been
played in three days
more than eight thousand times. We immediately tested the songs
with the public, to see
how they work”.
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NEWS
NEWS
DESCEMER
RECORDS
MUSIC FOR
DOCUMENTARY
The international success of
“Bailando” has not made him
stop; Descemer continues to
work to keep surprising millions
of his fans. This time we found
him at Abdala Record Label
composing and recording
the music for a documentary
that narrates the experiences
my life or my career; and I am
doing this so that people can
take the music with them, so
that everyone can enjoy it. It is
going to be eleven stories. For
example, there is one about
of students and teachers at
a girl who is in intermediate
schools of arts in Cuba. He said,
level in violin or the one about
“I am lucky enough to be in
the teacher of Amadeo Roldán,
charge of composing the music
Miriam Lay.”
for this documentary and it is
Jorge Aragón in the piano,
very important for me to do this. Yarolys Abreu in the drums,
It has been a while since I do not Gastón Goya in the bass, and
work on audiovisual productions Maykel Bárzagas are also in this
that are not directly related to
new adventure with him.
Photos: Internet
CLICK CUBAMUSIC.COM
Well-known personalities in
Cuban music that are part of the
catalogue of the digital platform
CUBAMUSIC.COM will come
together in an allstar to sing to
this website which has taken
their music all across the world.
It is a grateful gesture for more
than ten years of dedicated
work in the promotion Cuban
musical genres and culture.
The homage entails a song
created by Mauricio Díaz, along
with a video directed by Carlos
Eduardo Maristany. “Dale un
click” is the title of the timba
song, will not only serve its original promotional purpose.
One of the artists that could not
be missing because of his relation with the website, which
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May 2015
released the original version of
his international hit “Bailando”,
is Descemer Bueno, who
went ahead and has already
recorded his share. That is how
the recordings of this allstar
project began in dBega Estudio,
which also works closely with
CUBAMUSIC.COM.
VISTAR will be the first to carry
the report about the completion
and première of this song and
video, which are already in for
future versions in other genres.
The door is open for other
personalities that are eager to
collaborate with this project
so that “clicks” continue to
increase in this website, a landmark for Cuban music on the
Internet.
Photos: Internet
GENTE D´ZONA
AND DESCEMER
BUENO
KILLING IT
This April 30th “Bailando”
received six Latin American Billboard awards:
1- HOT LATIN SONG
2- HOT LATIN SONG VOCAL
COLLABORATION
3- AIRPLAY SONG
4- DIGITAL SONG
5- STREAMING SONG
6- LATIN POP SONG
Besides, the popular duet shared
the stage with Marc Anthony, to
boost even more the reputation
of Cuban reggaeton.
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CONCERT
MAYKEL BLANCO AT LA CECILIA
THE RETURN OF THE MACHINE
#8 TOP SINGLE
Maykel Blanco y Salsa Mayor
MI MULATA EN LA HABANA
After a month away and the
enormous success in Europe,
Maykel Blanco's Salsa Mayor got
to La Cecilia to add a little flavor
to the night of show-business
people in Havana. This time The
Machine of Cuba joined Havana
Show Project and dedicated its
welcoming concert to all the
fans of the team, which during
its latest international tour with
fans packing squares, clubs, and
stages in countries like France,
Spain, Italy, and Denmark.
“We are very happy for the
audience that always awaits for
us in La Cecilia, and undoubtedly,
they are the one who place songs
like “ Mi Mulata en la Habana”
(My Mulata in Havana) in the
charts both home and abroad.
Very soon we will finish to record
a video for this song and we
have plans to tour Venezuela,
Columbia, Ecuador, Japan, and
Canada, this last two are market
Salsa Mayor will enter for the
very first time”, said the leader of
the band, which will star recoeding for its next album on May.
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CONCERT
JACOB FOREVER
AND EL DANY
RAISING THE BAR
Photo: Alejandro Alonso
There are no empty tables. You can tell
the audience is eager for the concert to
begin. People are happily humming the
music played by the DJ. We enjoy the
fashion show by the designer Suárez. But
suddenly everybody stands up. They start
shouting and whistling. The stage fills
with light and color; it seems somehow
smaller now. There stand Jacob Forever
and El Danny, performing at La Cecilia
once again. VISTAR did not miss the show
and had an exclusive interview with
them, not only about that night´s performance, but also about the 2015 proposals
by these boys who are eager to keep on
creating and gaining popularity.
“We will tour around the country. We
will visit Camaguey, Holguin, Santiago,
and other provinces where they are
already scheduling our performances.
After the concert we will be playing at El
Capri, where we recently released Alguien
como tú (Someone like you), our duet with
Mariolis”, said Jacob some minutes before
he went on stage and shared his exciting
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May 2015
rhythms with the audience that
packed the place.
It was precisely for their
concert at El Capri that they
announced the release of their
clip Te voy a regalar La Habana (I
will give you Havana), directed
by Santana. “But tonight will not
be any less special, we will sing
our new song Cuando te veas
(When you see yourself),” added
El Danny, who also talked with
us. He said, “We are working
on our new album to be
released in 2015 that is called
A Otro Nivel (On a new level).
We have already completed
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“WE ARE
WORKING
ON OUR NEW
ALBUM TO BE
RELEASED IN
2015 THAT IS
CALLED A OTRO
NIVEL (ON A
NEW LEVEL). WE
HAVE ALREADY
COMPLETED
THE ROUGH CUT
AND WE WILL
RECORD IT VERY
SOON”.
the rough cut and we will record
it very soon.” And so Jacob gave
us a couple of details: “We have
surprise guests. Of course we will
tell you in time, but so far we can
assure songs with Orlando Max
and with Dominican bachata
singer Andy Andy, apart from the
song with Mariolis.”
With many plans and a strong
will to achieve them, these two
reggaeton singers are set on
offering their fans a memorable 2015. We saw them at La
Cecilia yesterday; who can tell
where they will be performing at
tomorrow?
CONCERT
EMIR
SANTACRUZ
IS BACK ON STAGE
After he was made to rest, saxophonist, clarinetist, and arranger
Emir Santacruz came back to the
stage with a moving concert to
thank, along with other friends,
the miracle of life.
He played some songs for
the very first time like “Sometimes blues” and “Opus 7”
accompanied by Yissy García
(drums), Aryan Varona (bass),
Héctor Quintana (guitar), and
Jesús Pupo (piano), colleagues
in his project Espiral. There
Photo: Elio Miniello
BUENA FE AND ANDRÉS SUÁREZ
IN HAVANA
If Galician Andrés Suárez
thought that he would go unnoticed when he entered the stage
of Mella Theater in Havana due
to the popularity of his hosts ―
Cuban duet Buena Fe― he was
surprised at the welcoming
applause by the audienc in his
second concert in Havana along
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May 2015
“Nowadays, nobody is so generous
to present another musician's songs
like this”
Andrés Suárez
one of “his dearest friends”
“Nowadays, nobody is so
generous to present another
musician's songs like this”, he
joked in a night where the three
voices joined to sing songs from
either of them, among which of
course, “Volar sin ti”, single with
the collaboration of Israel and
were also great performances
by singers Daymé Arocena and
Susel Matos, as well as trombonist Yaondy Argudín, unconditional guests who put on hold
their own commitments to be
in a concert where everyone
excelled.
The jazz musician assured us
that he is working on his first
album, inevitably colored by
his influences that range from
Cuban and universal roots, with
a sentiment of blues and gospel.
Surrounded by music and real
friends, he preferred to celebrate
his full recovery like this before
taking on his usual presentations at La Zorra y el Cuervo and
Café Miramar.
Yoel. Moreover, Andrés moved
everyone with “La vi bailar
flamenco” (I saw her dancing
flamenco)
What seemed to be a very
upbeat-like show that opened
with “Acompáñame” turned into
an exchange of intelligent lyrics, a
“concert of songs” like Isreal said.
EVENT
Danza
ENTRE TÚ Y YO AWARDS
VIVIR DEL CUENTO IS STILL THE MOST POPULAR
By: Lourdes García Photos: RR
Pánfilo and Chequera's show,
on TV every Monday under the
name of Vivir del Cuento was
bestowed 2015 Popularity Award
this year for the second time in
a raw at the 11th edition of Entre
tú y yo Awards Ceremony, which
each year acknowledges with
the highest ratings in the audiences across the island.
“Farándula, ricurancia and
gozancia” are today at Lázaro
Peña, said Mario sardiñas
(Chequera), when he was told
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May 2015
the award for Best Humor Show.
The gala boasted the music
of Laritza Bacallao, Luna
Manzanares, and Latin Evolution project, as well as the principal cast of Ballet Revolución,
directed by choreographer
Roclan González. It also served
as homage to photographer
and filmmaker Alejandro Pérez
and Jesús Cabrera, director of
important TV soap operas like En
silencio ha tenido que ser y Julito
el pescador.
During the ceremony, personalities like Blanca Rosa Blanco,
Enrique Molina, Martha Araújo,
Lieter Ledesma, Julio Acanda,
Rafael Serrano, Laritza Ulloa,
Renier González, Bárbara
Sánchez Novoa, and Marino
Luzardo, to name but a few
were also awarded.
Regarding other TV programs,
shows such as Mediodía en TV,
A puro corazón, Tras la huella,
Talla Joven, and Gol 360 stood
out.
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EVENT
VLADIMIR TALKED IN EXCLUSIVE
WITH VISTAR:
DELUXE MIXOLOGY
IN HAVANA
The Master Class of Evolving
Mixology "Giraldilla de La
Habana" came once again to
our city to fill it with glamour,
under the sponsorship of the
prestigious Scottish Brand Chivas
Regal.
On this occasion, for the final
challenge the five contestants
had to take inspiration from
one of the great moments of
mixology and recreate a classic
drink using the most modern
international techniques, a challenge that was won by Vladimir
Márquez, barman of the snack
bar/restaurant Waoo!, in Havana.
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May 2015
“I participated on
the last edition and I
received the popularity
award. Winning the
award given by the jury
on this occasion, is an
enormous recognition,
not only to my work
but to the one done by
so many people who
have influenced you
to het here: family,
friends, coworkers.
Cuban bartenders have
always had good results
internationally, and these
events are important
to us because we can
realize we are in the
front-runners, preparing
ourselves at the same
time, for the arrival of
the American customer,
who is a very demanding
one”.
A final balance of the event was
given to us by Fátima Ermus,
brand manager at Pernod Ricard,
who was in charge of the organization. “This edition surpassed
my expectations, among other
things, because we doubled the
public we had anticipated. Disci-
pline prevailed among participants, organizers, audience, and
was satisfied with the quality
of the cocktails that were
presented. It was spectacular. I
am very happy and we hope to
have an even bigger show next
year”.
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27
Are your characters like you?
Where do you get your stories
from?
From life. I like to observe everything. Everything we experiment
could be the key to finishing a
developing script. That’s how I
make the public identify with the
characters. I don’t realize it, but
those who know me have told
me my characters are like me. I
think that’s a difficult thing to
get rid of.
Y ESA #%N&@?
THIS SHORT FILM HAS TRAVELED AND CAUSED A FRENZY IN THE ISLAND AND IS
SUCCESSFULLY SURFING THE WEB, BUT WITH A VERY DIFFERENT NAME THAN THE ORIGINAL.
By: Yeneily García
Frames: Courtesy of the interviewer
This short film has traveled and caused a frenzy in the
Island and is successfully surfing the web, but with a very
different name than the original.
You possibly have it on your cellphone and have seen
it a thousand times. Nevertheless, we are sure that, like
us, even if you see it another thousand times you will
laugh as if it were the first time. Literally from hand to
hand, or from flash memory to flash memory, this short
film has traveled and caused a frenzy in the Island and
How did you become an
animator?
As a kid I was always doing
comics. Once finished I would
show them to my friends and
then I would put them away.
After, I started doing comics for a
magazine called La Picúa. That’s
how the characters Dany and his
friends (El Club de los Verracos)
came to be.
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May 2015
is successfully surfing the web, but with a very different
name than the original. Obviously, Pez Peleador is not as
attractive as ¿Y esa pinga?
After a few minutes of laughter the first question
that pops into our minds is, who made such funny
cartoons? Here you have him: Victor Alfonso, an architect
from Cienfuegos who left the blueprints to become an
animator/director/scriptwriter/dreamer with a bunch of
ideas.
Animation techniques?
I use and reuse the animation
cycles. I only animate certain
elements such as the mouth
and arms, depending on the
complexity of the scene. I also
use limited animation for
funny actions. What you get
at the end are “stick figures”. I
balance this with audio, verbal
humor, and the talent of the
voices to give emotions to the
cartoons.
Antecedents?
Humor, I love humor: Cartoon
Network, Leslie Nielsen’s American satires, Juan Padron’s
cartoons, Samurai Cats, Ninja
Turtles, Fraggle Rock, and many
others that were broadcasted
when I was a kid.
!
In your projects you direct, write,
do the voices, animate…
It’s hard work. I would like to
count with a good budget, I
would produce faster and more.
But, since I don’t have a stable
budget, I do almost everything
myself. That way I focus on what
I want to convey with my work.
I design the characters myself,
their face, their body, their
clothes, their way of acting.
I always use an idea that I
consider to be fresh, that may be
attractive or daring; taking into
account what the national television lacks, what Cubans want
to watch, what they’re lacking,
what they’re looking for.
Pez peleador… How did you
conceive it?
It’s an interesting phenomenon.
Pez peleador was going to be
part of a short film made up of
various two minute cartoons
made by different directors. The
project didn’t come to fruition.
Three years later I showed it to
a friend and boom!, everyone
wants to have it and watch it on
their cellphones. I wanted to tell
a story where two kids would
start talking in a childish way
and end up arguing as if they
were adults. The reception of
the short film has taken me by
surprise. I’m seriously considering putting on halt El Club de
los Verracos and work on ¿Y esa
pinga?2
I LIKE TO
OBSERVE
EVERYTHING.
EVERYTHING
WE EXPERIMENT COULD
BE THE KEY TO
FINISHING A
SCRIPT.
May 2015
29
TOP-TEN
SALÓN ROJO DEL CAPRI
LUNES 2 DE MARZO / 2015
CAPRI’s SALÓN ROJO was invaded
by glamour to receive once again the
TOP TEN organized by ADRIANO DJ.
Undoubtedly, VISTAR did not miss the
event and talked to the protagonists of
an unforgettable night that saw the release of new songs and music videos.
Tonight we will be promoting our song
“Pártete en dos”. We are very happy to do
it here, at the Top Ten.
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May 2015
BY ADRIANO DJ
LOCAL
01 - LOS 4 - "ME VOY"
02 - DESIGUALES - "ESO ES
BOLA"
03 - CHACAL Y DIVAN"SONG LOVE"
04 - CHOCOLATE- "GUACHINEA"
05 - DESIGUALES -" CHAMBONEA"
06 - CHACAL Y YAKARTA "PA QUE SE VENGA PA MI
CASA"
07 - SRTA. DAYANA- “HASTA EL SUELO CHIKI DONG
DONG”
08 - LOS 4- "CON QUÉ"
09 - JACOB FOREVER Y EL
DANY - " LA HABANA"
10 - EL MICHA-"CABALLITO"
INTERNATIONAL
WILLIAM EL MAGNÍFICO
KTEGORÍA 5
TOP TEN
I bring a new release, as a
surprise for everyone, even
for VISTAR, who always
has exclusives; a magazine I follow because they
are in the Cuban music
market.
01 - NICKY JAM FT. ENRIQUE
IGLESIAS-" PERDÓN"
02 - CHRIS BROWN- "TYGA
AYO"
03 - REDFOO-"JUICY WIGGLE"
04 - YANDEL-"PLAKITON"
05 - GENTE D´ ZONA-"PIENSAS (DILE LA VERDAD)"
06 - FARRUCO Y WISIN-"LEJOS DE AQUÍ"
07 - J. BALVIN - "AY VAMOS"
08 - MARC ANTHONY FT.
ROMEO SANTOS-" YO TAMBIÉN"
09 - MANÁ Y SHAKIRA-" MI
VERDAD"
10 - NICKY JAM - “TRAVESURAS”
PROMOTION
SRTA. DAYANA
I will be releasing a new song with Yomil,
member of Los 4. I will shortly launch De
Ida y Vuelta, my first album. And I am very
happy as a nominee for Cubadisco.
DANY
Jacob and I came
with our song
“Te voy a regalar
La Habana”, and
you are going to
release its video
right here.
DIVAN
I just finished my álbum and I
am focused now on the production of several music videos and,
of course, I am here today with
“Tu perfume”.
YULIÉN OVIEDO
I am working with Gente D’ Zona
in an album that is going to be
tight. Tito el Bambino, Rey Álvarez
and Elvis Crespo are going to
collaborate in it. Today I will be
singing with la Charanga, that is a
collaboration for life.
PROMOTION
ÁNGELES
We came here to work
with Adriano and share
and champion our music
with a new audience
that is different from
our usual one in Le
Select.
EDITH MASSOLA AND CRAZY BOY
WILL CAMPA
“La bambina” is a track that
has been close to me for the
past seven or eight months.
It has shaken all of Cuba
and now it will shake the
Top Ten.
CHRISTIAN Y REY
Thanks to Alegría, our new
album, we are for the first time
in the Top Ten. The CD is entirely
different from what we have
done and it includes more urban
genres like reggaeton and electronic merengue.
May 2015
31
SANGRI-LA
TO SATISFY ALL YOUR
DESIRES...
By: Talía Bustamante
Photos: Luis M. Gell
Combining a tasty
dinner with a dance
floor in Havana three
years ago was something of hopelessness.
Until the powerful
beam of licenses heartened the culinary
and night life, and
ever since a known
establishment called
Sangri-LA became the
best bet for a night of
utter satisfaction.
It is very likely that
you have arrived
after midnight, when
as a result of the
careful admission of
customers, you find a
unique atmosphere.
Young Cuban people
get together with
foreigners who are in
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May 2015
a short stay or permanently residing in the
city, and you can feel a
homogeneous mixture
of fun energies to the
beat of Leoni Torres,
who makes Tuesdays
a recurrent and exclusive moment in the
basement of 21 and 42
streets.
If your experience
included listening
to the rhythm of the
music you also probably tried exquisite
cocktails that include
a wide range of Gin
combined with natural
ingredients to please
the new wave of gin
tonic fans, a successful
and ideal drink for our
“hot” weather. In the
meantime, the house
Mojito, with fresh
lemon juice and daily
picked peppermint,
conquers unquestionably the tourists.
If you are a regular
to Sangri, as it is fondly
called, you noticed
how the atmosphere is
everyday warmer, while
the ambiance and
decoration symbolize
a modern intention of
serving the client in
various ways.
We invite you to taste
some of the dishes
such as raw seafood,
where the freshness of
the fish, shrimps and
lobster marinated in
lemon and pepper on
PROMOTION
PROMOTION
a slice of crusty braked
bread is a lite option to
start dinner. As a second
dish you can choose
between pulpo a la
gallega (Galician style
octopus), a generous
portion that softly melts
in your mouth, and a
beef filet cooked and cut
to perfection sided with
a delicious blue cheese
sauce that leaves in
your palate the typical
sweetness of traditional
Cuban food.
In the interim, you
will be enjoying the
right music, low enough
to talk and yet cheer you
up. Now it is time to use
the stylish dessertspoon
to invade the layers of
the Sangri-LA cheesecake, an epic closure for
your transition to the
dance floor.
If you have not been
seduced yet by the best
private place of Havana
that can satisfy your
desire for a good time,
we recommend a visit
with plenty of time
so that the amazing
waitresses make you
feel like a king, or a
queen, paradoxically
underground..
May 2015
33
BABY
LORES
ARCE
EVERY
FRIDAY AND
SATURDAY
ISSAC
DELGADO
Arce works to get away
from mediocrity, to give
unique nights to those
who go there. That is
why they keep working
with young artists
with large crowds, like
Desiguales or Laritza
Bacallao, but also with
more experienced and
established musicians
with decades of work
in our stages, like Isaac
Delgado. Although
Fridays are not a regular
day for their shows,
right now they are
focused on making it
exclusively for popular
dance music. That is
how Baby Lores came to
Don Cangrejo, packing
the place with his fans,
who have followed him
since Clan 537 and keep
supporting him in his
solo career.
May 2015
After her recent return from the
United States, where she worked
with artists like Oscar D’ León,
Carlos Vives, Marc Anthony and
the master Sergio George, Laritza
Bacallao made her debut with
Arce, and was welcomed with a
carnival-inspired show: “I have
always liked these shows, I have
come here several times, I spent
last New Year’s Eve here with
them. I love this atmosphere, as
far as I am concerned, it is very
festive but very nontoxic”.
“ I love this
atmosphere, it is
very festive but very
nontoxic””.
“I am satisfied to see
the place full of so
many young people
who have come here to
enjoy my music”.
Isaac Delgado, in the
middle of the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of his band,
talked to our team
about his first impression of Arce’s public.
“I am very happy to be
here because I can see
that the people who
come here are very
young and I am satisfied
to see the place full of
so many young people
who have come here to
enjoy my music”.
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LARITZA
BACALLAO
DESIGUALES
PROMOTION
PROMOTION
Desiguales gave closure to the month in a White
Night, with el Cangrejo fully packed and where
the hundreds of people who were there enjoyed
the presentation of their extended band and the
release of new songs.
May 2015
35
César Pedroso
PUPY
“I WILL ALWAYS BE VANVANERO”
By: Lourdes García Photos: Iván Soca
He felt a lump in his
throat when we asked
him about Juanito.
Remembering Formell
a year after his death
means for César
Pedroso (Pupy) travelling back in the memories they both created
for thirty-two years of
music and brotherhood.
In order to get to
know better the humble
and patient man, the
father and unconditional friend, VISTAR
talked to Pupy, an
eternal vanvanero who
believes in the immortal
legacy of Juan Formell.
“It is impossible for
me to believe that he is
gone, because I have so
many things in mind.
It does not feel real
that such a brilliant
and virtuous person
disappears, with so
much to do. For me he
will always be alive”,
asserted the great
Pedroso, breaking the
ice in a conversation
that, for more than an
hour, took us back in
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May 2015
time. “Juan was part of
so much of my life, from
a sentimental, economic
and familial point of
view. When my son and
father passed away, he
was always there by my
side. When I had a heart
problem in Italy, he sent
me a letter that I still
keep, worried about my
condition and encouraging me to follow the
doctor’s orders. Just so
you have an idea, my
first refrigerator was
a gift from Formell
because I did not have
the money, and I do not
think I ever paid that
debt”, tells us this excellent pianist between
laughs.
Pupy could fill a chest
with all the memorable moments. Every
story connects to each
other through the same
protagonist: Juanito.
Like the time they got
stuck in an elevator
in Bulgaria, with nine
other people, or when
they travelled through
Havana in a small van, all
crammed. The laughter
returns, together with
the pranks. “Formell was
a flirt –said Pupy-. He
really loved women and
he was always in love.
Once, with the Orquesta
Revé band, where
we started together,
we caught a train to
Santiago de Cuba and
a very pretty girl sat
next to him. He did not
say anything to her, but
he did stare at her and
winked. She got off in
Holguin and we did not.
Two days later, Formell
already had a song:
“Encuentro y Partida”
(Meeting and Parting);
recalls the director of the
band Los que Son Son.
But not all stories
bring back a smile. Pupy
remembers the day they
cheated death just by
a few hours since Los
Van Van were supposed
to return to Cuba in
the same plane full of
athletes coming from
Barbados that exploded
in the air. “We had spent
the afternoon before
playing for them. It was
a matinee to celebrate
the gold medals they
had won. The guys were
dancing and we were
dancing with them.
That night we were told
that we had a concert
in Panama and that we
were supposed to take
another flight. The next
day, already in Panama,
we found out that a
Cubana airlines plane
had exploded, but it was
not until we received a
fax that we understood
the tragedy. I locked
myself in the bathroom
and started bumping
my head against the
wall”, expressed Pupy
still hurt by the images.
There are so many more
experiences in countries
like Chile, Mexico, Spain
and the United States,
but Pupy just focuses
on the best of them.
Los Van Van are part of
my story, my last name
and who I am. Juan
Formell left his mark
on me. I will always be
vanvanero”.
“Los Van Van
are part of my
story, my last
name and who
I am. Juan
Formell left his
mark on me. I
will always be
vanvanero”.
VAN
VAN
LOS
DE JUAN FORMELL
A YEAR LATER
By: Ana Patricia Marzoa Photos: Courtesy of Iván Soca
Talking about Juan
Formell is talking about
Cuba. It is a tremendous
challenge to try to sum
up in words a man who
did not follow patterns
but still found not once,
but hundreds of times
the formula to make
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May 2015
his entire country and
a significant part of the
world dance.
A year ago, The Master
stopped aging… a year
ago he embarked on
a new adventure that
transcends life as we
know it. But his physical
absence has done nothing
but enhance his legend
and reaffirm his genius.
VISTAR could not turn
a blind eye to the date
which is why we approach
his living legacy, Van Van,
to discover among tears
and smiles, stories that
have been saved and built
from respect but especially from the affection
of a band that reflects the
love of an entire country.
This is how el Tren de la
Música Cubana (the Train
of Cuban Music) remembers his eternal driver.
JUAN CARLOS
FORMELL (BASS)
It is interesting because from
the outside, people see I am
the person who plays exactly
with his same style. Everyone
seems to think that it is easy for
me. But it has not been. Mainly
because I have my own ideas
about music, as a bass player,
but something happens when I
go on stage: I feel that my dad
is with me, and he is the one
playing, there is something very
deep there.
The most beautiful memory
I have of him is precisely of the
last moments, his happy life
in these years he spent with
his wife, Yaimara. The greatest
gift he gave us was teaching us
that we could have a happy life,
no matter where you are, how
old you are, there is always an
opportunity to be happy and
you have to seize it, you need
to have the ability to accept it
and fight for it. And that is the
greatest thing I learned from
him, the possibility of changing
always for the better.
IRVING FRONTELA
(VIOLIN)
The Master did not use to
constantly reprimand you. He
would cut you some slack but
when he said something you
would not do that again ever.
I remember this time we were
playing in Casa de la Música. The
thing started about 12 midnight
and it was the second time I was
late. That day, after the concert
was finished, he called me: “tell
me Irving, what is going on with
you arriving late?”. And well, I
started explaining that the cab
had not picked me up and in the
middle of the explanation he
stopped me and said: “You have
an entire day to be here early. I
need two hours of you, only two
hours, and if you know there are
some difficulties, well, you have
to anticipate them, correct the
things that could happen but
fulfill what you have to fulfill”.
Never again was I late, of
course, but that was his way
of teaching you. Very gently
he would say phrases like that
and you could not keep talking
or making excuses because he
would disarm you with his truth.
PEDRO FAJARDO
(VIOLIN)
He never had that fear of being
wrong. When he was wrong, he
would do like this with his hands
(like playing his bass), searching,
and then would keep on playing.
Sometimes you make a mistake
and go home punishing yourself
in your head. But I learned with
him that you can be wrong but
you still have tomorrow to make
amends, if you are a professional
you study and you try to do it
better tomorrow.
That was him, a musician, a
genius, yes, but above all he was
human, human. He is a father to
me. I feel it that way. When my
dad passed away Formell told
me: “Pedro, man up, because
it is tough losing a father, but
here you have another father”.
That was his phrase and unfortunately none of my two fathers
are here now. They are not physically here, but I always keep
them alive.
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39
©Marcel Fernández
EL LELE (SINGER)
ÁLVARO COLLADO
(TROMBONE)
©Marcel Fernández
MANDY CANTERO
(SINGER)
YOEL CUESTA
(CONGAS)
Ever since I entered the band
they call me Salchicha (Sausage),
because el Lele put me that
name so everyone calls me that,
even Formell. So in my first tour
in Europe I fell sick. I felt so bad
that they had to take me off
stage due to an excruciating
pain in my kidneys. Formell had
not gone to that tour. So when
we got here, I see him at the
airport going around asking:
“Guys, where is Salchi?” Where
is Salchicha, huh?”. And he came
to where I was and hugged me
and started asking how I felt. It
shocked me that he had been
aware of everything and his
concern despite the distance
touched me.
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May 2015
JORGE LELIEBRE
(FLUTE)
I have the good fortune of having
worked with him for so much
time, of being guided in many
things, even when he was not
his intention to do it. He always
asked for everyone’s opinions.
Work was always done collectively, and he gave utmost
priority to that.
There are so many anecdotes of
Juan. But I remember one that
was unfortunately the last time
we laughed at one of his doings.
We were rehearsing in Abdala,
we started to play and a roadie
started singing. Juan was sitting
in the back, looking at him and
laughing, letting him have a go
at it until he suddenly said, like
this, highlighting every word:
“Hey, listen carefully to what I am
about to say, I do not want to see
you getting on my stage when I
am not here because everyone
tells me everything”. And the
roadie responded: “Nah, master,
I am into performing arts and
entertainment, singing is just an
extra for me”. He stood like this
for a moment, in silence, and said:
“You know what you are? You are
a phony” and everyone started
laughing. That was Formell. When
he was going to say something
harsh, he would not even consider
swearing, he would just say: “you
are a phony”, and we would laugh
so hard because you had to see
the way he would say it. He was
very suspicious, the tone he used
would make you laugh but still
would impose respect.
So many things happened to us
on tour, experiences that were
tough but that brought us closer.
There was this time we went
to Colombia and we were eight
hours on a river, with instruments and everything because
there was no way to get there by
land. We were supposed to play
in the middle of nowhere and
we got there lightheaded, but
we got there. On another time
we travelled to the carnivals of
Veracruz and we had to take the
trip boarding the Guanajuato, a
Mexican army ship that, well, was
around fifty years old. We were
not alone, Guaracheros de Regla,
Tambores de Bejucal, the Parisien
club show, you know, many people
together. In the middle of the trip
a terrible storm hit us, and wow,
just like what you have watched
in cartoons, the ship goes up and
down with the waves… until the
engine died. Everyone started to
put on the lifesavers except for
a girl who went to the top of the
ship to pray to Yemayá to take us
out of it. And bless our souls we
hit land!
But many good things
happened to us on tour, not only
because of the audience, but
also because we shared stage
with some of the greats like
Chick Corea, Bobby McFerrin,
John Father, Al Jarreau with his
Big Band, very joyful moments,
moments in which you would
drop the instruments and everything just to take a closer look at
them.
EDMUNDO PINA
(TROMBONE)
Once we went to a jazz festival
in Curacao. To get there we had
to go to Venezuela and then
take another plane. We got there
in time and ready to take the
flight and we landed safely in
Curacao without any problems.
But every time we landed Juan
would ask about everyone. And
that is when he noticed that two
members were missing and the
thing is that when we left Venezuela they had taken the wrong
plane to Santa Lucia. He then
started asking and talking and
calling people. They finally came
to Curacao when we were almost
about to begin, but well, they got
there.
When my kids were born, all
three, Juan was always the first
one at the hospital. And when
he died, my wife said that she
would not have any more kids,
not only because we had decided
on that, but also because the
flowers that he used to take
would not be there anymore. He
is a grandfather to my kids, he
grew fond of them.
Juan had some stories… he
was very amusing. He could tell
you the same story a thousand
times, but always, always made
you laugh. One of the stories that
would kill me laughing was the
following. He said that once they
went to a party with a friend of
his that was a teaser like him. So
they were there and suddenly a
huge German shepherd comes
out of nowhere and starts
messing with everyone. It was
a playful dog who was messing
everyone’s clothes, and licking
them and well, they started
to complain until the dog was
locked away. But then, after two
minutes, a kid shows up with
boxing gloves hitting everyone,
whether they were standing or
walking he would just hit them
with the gloves. Then when he
could not take it any longer his
friend said: “hey, either you lock
the dog or this fool, but I cannot
deal with both of them”. And
then, well just imagine, everyone
laughing, but they obviously
had to leave. I do not know how
many times Juan told me that
story, but I would always end up
almost choking after laughing so
much with the peculiar way he
had to tell that story.
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©Marcel Fernández
SAMUEL FORMELL
(DRUMMER AND
LEADER)
ROBERTÓN
(SINGER)
Juan gave me my name. I went
to see him when I was about
to start in the band and he
asked me my name. When I said
Roberto he responded: “what?!
Have you not seen your body?
You have to be Robertón”. And
from that moment on, I was
always Robertón. Nobody calls
me Roberto anymore, everyone
knows me by the name he gave
me.
What happens now? That I
look to the right, look to the left
and he is not there, but he is,
at the same time. It is like the
player who is going to throw the
ball to first base and no one is
there, even when there has been
always the same person there.
And that is why we have to move
on, with that memory, because
wherever he is, he will be with us.
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May 2015
EFRAÍN CHIBÁS,
“PACHO” (PIANO)
I am twenty-five and just
imagine, I know him since I
was eight or nine because his
daughter Paloma and I studied
together. Due to this friendship
we would have some parties in
our group and some of those
were done in his house. I lived
very far from him and it is a
really nice memory I have that
no matter how late it was, and
being him a celebrity, he would
always find the time to take me
home after the party was over.
Those were the opportunities I
took advantage of to have the
best conversations I remember,
where we talked a lot about
music and I realized how much
he enjoyed that although I was
a teenager we would be dead
serious in our talks.
We had many beautiful father-son
moments. There was much affection. We would actually say hello
to each other with a kiss in the
mouth, and I do not think there
is a better father that him, more
profound or communicative, and
that would teach you while he was
still breathing how to lead Van
Van. Without him I would not be
able to be anyone or do anything
now.
He was always laughing and I
have tons of memories of that. I
would tease him, I loved to tease
him, pinch him, tickle him, bite him
or lay down next to him. Anything
like that to make him lose his
temper. He would say: “don’t be
cheeky that you are too old for
that”, and he would laugh, he
would always laugh.
I have been writing a song for
him, not as a hit or anything like
that, just for all of those who loved
him, who met him. And it goes:
“Cuando mi padre murió la música
lloró / Cuando mi padre murió la
música también cantó (When my
father died music cried / when my
father died music also sang” and
that is how it is, that is how I feel it.
SAMUEL AND JUAN FORMELL Photo: Iván Soca
JUAN FORMELL
ONE YEAR OLD
IVÁN SOCA AND
FORMELL
IVÁN SOCA
(FOTÓGRAFO)
I really came to Van Van as
part of a production crew that
was working on a film about
the band, but I feel that from
the beginning he saw in me a
person that could and wanted to
preserve what they were doing.
Formell was perfectly clear
that he was the one making
history, but he was also
convinced that I was the one
keeping his memoirs.
He had many small gestures
outside of work and he gave me
this picture of when he turned
one.
This May 1st the picture has a
double reading, it is his first year
in his eternal life and here is the
picture of his first year in his past
life, the life in which we met him.
May 2015
43
NOVEL
ARTIST
“I´VE WRITTEN ALL
THE SONGS I SING.
THAT´S THE WAY I
EXPRESS MYSELF.
I WROTE MY FIRST
SONG WHEN I WAS
SIXTEEN AND I
HAVEN´T STOPPED
EVER SINCE.”
MAGDA
MUSIC IS MY WAY
For Magda, music has no frontiers; there is nothing impossible
to do or achieve in it (or for it). It
is not about genres, it is about
adventures. That is why this
young lady feels comfortable
working with styles as different
from each other as lyric singing
(which she studies at the Higher
Institute of Arts) and salsa, to
mention only two of them.
She is equally passionate
about these two tendencies
despite their differences: “I like
lyric singing because that´s
what I study and I get to see how
complex it is, involving a great
artistic and intellectual value.
And I love folk music; I see it as a
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Photo: Alejandro Alfonso
way to enjoy and be myself.”
In spite of being only nineteen, she already writes and
records songs. “I´ve written all
the songs I sing. That´s the way
I express myself. I wrote my
first song when I was sixteen
and I haven´t stopped ever
since. My album is an independent production that we are
recording in Holguín. It will
include many genres like salsa,
ballade, pop, and some songs
closer to ballad.”
She has no preference as to
the format of her performances;
you can see her accompanied
by a DJ or an original jazz trio,
which is the expression of the
self-confidence that she reflects
in every song.
If you have listened to her, you
will be surprised to know that
it was through acting and not
music that she made her first
steps in arts. She writes short
stories and will become the
presenter of a TV program that
will soon be on air. However, the
most important thing for her is
definitely music.
In spite of her still short career,
Magda performs every Saturday
in her native Holguín at 1720
accompanied by DJ Alexis 6.
Hopefully, we will soon be lucky
enough to watch her perform
here in Havana.
THE CURIOSITY TO LIVE INSPIRES ME
By: Lourdes García Photo: Alejandro Alfonso
You can find him in any street of Havana, walking among the people,
with his backpack on his shoulder and an unhurried walk. If you ask him,
he would say his looking for locations for his next film, but the truth is
that Fernando Perez needs to be in constant touch with today’s Cuba to
nourish and tell stories never explored before.
The VISTAR team had a
pending conversation
with this film director,
especially if taken into
account that his name
has returned to the
big screen in the last
months.
“La Pared de las
Palabras is the continuity and evolution of
my life, because I refuse
to be static. That’s why
every film I make has a
different approach, an
obstacle to overcome”,
assured the creator of
Madagascar, Clandestinos and Suite Habana.
“El Profe”, as the
tie him to any Project,
he assures that curiosity and passion are
his inspiration. “Life
is about challenging
oneself, otherwise it
would be only one day
after another” , said this
inhabitant of Havana
who considers music as
the finest of arts. Maybe
that’s the reason why
one of his latest achievements has been the
making of the video clip
Cancion Facil where he
combined Marta Valdes
and Haydee Milanes.
“I’m very attracted to
the clip as a form of
“To be near young people
is a way of enriching my
way of seeing things”.
students from FAMCA
call him, advocates for
the independent art
that’s brewing in the
younger generations
and chooses not to be
monotonous in order to
“ foster self-renovation
and to find unknown
paths. That’s why I chose
to do La Pared de las
Palabras because it was
a topic that could be
looked at from different
perspectives, although
I never thought of
making a movie about
disabilities and the
psychiatric institutions”.
As to the mysteries that
expression, because in
a short period of time
you have to tell a story,
express a feeling or
follow the beat of a
song. As a new language
I wanted to try, to feel
part of it.
Always looking for
new experiences, he will
also participate in the
XII Havana Biennial, in
a performance with the
artists Leafar Delgado
and Yoisel Torres, in a
tribute to the American
John Cage.
To be near young
people is a way of
enriching my way of
seeing things. Watching
them I recall my youthregarding age, because I
feel young at heart- and
that attitude towards
life that young people
have is something I
would never want to
lose; the curiosity to live
inspires me”
With a few minutes
to spare, we asked him
if his work evolves along
with Cuba. “That’s a
really good question”
he said. “I make films
to communicate. Everything I’ve made has
evolved with reality,
because even though
one remains the same,
reality and values
change. That’s why I
accepted an interview
with VISTAR, because it’s
a controversial magazine that has a profile
that had disappeared in
Cuba. You are facing a
category that surprises
for being excluded. I try
to live in today’s Cuba,
the one that nourishes
me to keep making
films”, he said at the end.
Minutes later he was
lost in the crowd in
23rd Street, to deeply
explore the country
that is present in every
project. After talking for
an hour, we understood
the mysteries of his
name. Fernando Pérez
is simply and island
inside the Cuba he never
abandons.
May 2015
47
FILM INDUSTRY
YOUNG FILMMAKER
AWARDS 2015
Photo: Courtesy of Alan González
The French producer Séverine
Roinssard shared her experiences
on film project management
and how to raise funds for the
making.
The documentary De que Van…
Van was presented as part of
this 14th edition. Once again
the audience was moved by the
tribute to Juan Formell and el
Tren de la Música Cubana (the
Train of Cuban Music) done by la
Colmenita company, directed by
Héctor David Rosales.
Nicolás Guillén Landrián received
once again a special tribute paid
by the new generation of Cuban
filmmakers. Nine documentaries were shown together with
an exhibition of his less known
work as a painter. “Nicolás was
an intellectual all the time. His
way of being in this world was
by making art”, expressed her
widow, Gretel Alfonso.
Haciendo Cine celebrated its
eight anniversary.
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May 2015
Robert Kraft returned to
Cuba for the sixth time
and chose the event
to offer a workshop
to young composers
and give a lecture. “I
came interested in
meeting new filmmakers, listening to new
composers and maybe
introduce them to
larger audiences”.
Alejandrito y el Cuco’s
poster, designed by
Fernando Riveaux,
received the award in
the Contest for New
Designers which was
part of the 14th ICAIC
Young Filmmaker
Awards.
Photos: Internet
The great prize in the Fiction
category went to La profesora de
inglés, a shortfilm written and
directed by Alan González. The
performances of Coralia Veloz,
Héctor Hechemendía and Roque
Moreno are worth mentioning.
May 2015
49
VIDEOCLIPS
FILM INDUSTRY
COMING UP
BUENA FE
PI 3,14
DIR. JOSE ROJAS
ALEJANDRO GIL'S
PREMIÈRE OF “ LA
EMBOSCADA”
Photos: Courtesy of Alejandro Gil
YOYO IBARRA FT. MANOLITO SIMONET & FREE DANCE
OLVÍDAME
DIR. CARLOS EDUARDO MARISTANY & YOYO IBARRA
ALAIN
DANIEL FT BOUE
ALEXIS VALDEZ
ALEJANDRO
AMOR
DALEBONITO
FIESTA
DIR. YEANDRO TAMAYO
DIR: MANUEL ORTEGA
By: Lourdes García
With great expectation and a numerous
crowd of film buffs, La Emboscada (The
Ambush) was played for the very first time
in Havana this April, a film directed by
Alejandro Gil starring experienced actors
like Patricio Wood and Tomás Cao, and
young actors Caleb Casas and Armando M.
Gómez. The film also includes the participation of Ernesto Daranas in the script.
Produced by ICAIC, the film is a close
overview of the personal stories of four
soldiers who escape an ambush and from
that moment on, they start narrating his
experiences on the brink of an extreme
situation that puts in jeopardy any chance
of survival.
“This film is to talk about the limits
between life and death, from the perspective of a war. It is not a war film, but the
internal battles waged by the characters
and their families”, said the director of
other works like La Avería,Extravíos y La
pared.
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May 2015
EL NIÑO Y LA VERDAD
LOCO PERO TE AMO
DIR. JOSE ROJAS
ÁNGELES FT. BABY LORES
QUIERO OLVIDARTE
DIR: MANUEL ORTEGA
ALAIN DANIEL FT. ALEXIS VALDÉS
SUTILEZA (VIDEO PROMOCIONAL)
DIR. CLAUDIA VALDÉS & JORGEL NONELL
May 2015
51
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Do not read the heading with
skepticism. For a month –May
22nd to June 22nd- Havana will
become a space where art will
converse with the city and
its people, and the work of
hundreds of artists, scientists,
musicians, sociologists, anthropologists and intellectuals will
become part of the geography of
magical and surreal city.
To reaffirm that elitism and
closed conceptions have no place
in an event like this, apart from
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the usual venues like the Wifredo
Lam Contemporary Art Center,
the Art Higher Institute, La
Cabaña and el Malecón, the Biennial will reach Casablanca and
some neighborhoods in Central
Havana and Old Havana that
will see their routines changed
by creators who plan to revitalize community spaces and even
paint some facades.
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workshops. The highest expectations are, however, on the side
exhibition, which will include a
collective project in the Pabellón
Cuba entitled “Between, inside,
outside”, a project that will
engage Cuban young creators
and artists living currently in the
US who have Cuban ancestry, in
a dialogue.
In the same venue will take
place the second edition of the
talk of the town, “Detrás del
muro” (Behind the wall), a collection of installations placed in el
Malecón that, based on what
Juan Delgado, its curator, said
to the magazine, will return
this year with a larger amount
of pieces, among which there
will be an ice rink –yes, you are
right!-, a landing strip, a giant
blue cube, a light tree, a beach
with little umbrellas and sand
in the middle of the wall, and a
garden of barbed wire.
As part of Havana´s 12th Biennial,
we will enjoy the presentation
of INSOMNIA, a project that
involves installation and performance and consists in taking
over a house to turn a home
into a public gallery.
Artist Pablo Rosendo will be
living with his girlfriend, artist
Claudia Tomás, in a house in
Vedado, at 367, 26th Avenue,
between 23rd and 25th. The
couple will turn this temporary
place for them into a personalsetting decorated with the
plastic work produced by him
using recycled material like CD
and cassette boxes modified
through a technique developed
by Rosendo involving plasticine.
The artist´s creation process
will be nonstop, and it will be
openly exhibited for a month
together with the performance
by the actress, who will be
presenting a staging directed
by MarticaMinipunto of Vincent
Van Gogh´s letters to his
brother Theo.
Designers, DJs, photographers, among other artists will
be invited to build this collective creation experience that
will combine the private and
the public.
May 2015
55
PHOTOGRAPHY
ALFREDO SARABIA JR.
STORY TOLD THROUGH A LENS
By: Yeneily García
It could seem risky to
embark on an adventure
in the same profession
in which your father
raised the bar so high
and on top of that, with
the same name, but
whoever sees his work
can identify in Alfredo
Sarabia Jr. an individual
voice, an eagerness in
setting his own course
without ignoring his
heritage, “because ever
since he began he saw in
his dad his first teacher”.
“Photography has
been with me almost
from the moment I
came to this world. My
story has always been
through a lens. I used
to go out a lot with my
dad to take pictures, and
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it started to become a
habit to communicate
through images”. He
was first struck in awe
at home. Then, in the
San Alejandro Academy
the cameras helped him
to record installations,
“until the point that I
could not run from it
anymore and it became
the core of my work,
to the extent that I am
now a Photography
teacher in the Art Higher
Institute”.
Attracted by the
concept of duality and
the existence of opposites, young Sarabia says
he does not believe so
much in the means to
do something, but in
the end, the goal he has
“PHOTOGRAPHY
HAS BEEN WITH ME
ALMOST FROM THE
MOMENT I CAME TO
THIS WORLD. MY
STORY HAS ALWAYS
BEEN THROUGH A
LENS”
Substitute #6
He lives abroad but this is his paradise
when he creates.
“I do not usually talk
about categories like
artistic, documentary, or
journalistic photography.
I prefer the qualifier
hunted or constructed.
My work is between
those”, expressed
Alfredo. He also
explained that he leans
towards not manipulating his shots, “first
because I come from
the school of films, and
second, because I like to
establish some sort of
credibility so that people
know beforehand that
what they are going to
see is real”.
Convinced that an
idea is what dictates the
way in which you work,
Alfredo is now focused
on creating a piece that
resembles more a sculpture than a traditional
photo. He uses original
resources such as the
frames he uses for his
photos to modify and
integrate them to the
piece.
The best part of everything? That if you want to
see the outcome of this
new creative phase, you
can head to Estudios 50
during Havana’s Biennial
and find “No es lo que
ves”, a four-artist expo
which Sarabia shares
with Che Serguera, and
where he will exhibit a
vast part of his creation.
Substitute #10
Alberto dice que su cámara es una máquina del tiempo
May 2015
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CUBANS
OVERSEAS
Neither Weirdos nor UFOs...
Picadillo
“People were
dumbstruck
when they
listened to
our mixing
of Nueva
Orleans and
Benny Moré”.
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May 2015
Fotos: Cortesía entrevistado
The night owls that visit Fábrica
de Arte Cubano (FAC) (Cuban
Arts Factory) on weekends must
have been shocked when they
first saw Picadillo, a project
conceived in Madrid a couple of
years ago by a group of Cuban
“buddies”.
People were dumbstruck
when they listened to our
mixing of New Orleans and
Benny Moré. People were like
“Wow!” What’s with this UFO
that has just landed? But then
they got used to us. “It was
amazing for us”, says Rey Rodríguez, guitar player and one of
the singers in the band.
Héctor Agüero Lauten (director,
musical producer, keyboards,
and guitar), Sol Ruiz (vocals and
ukulele) and José Luis González,
Jochi (trumpet and percussion), complete this group of
friends that already shared
their nationalities, influences,
and interests and decided that
the best was to join together to
succeed.
“Héctor was already famous in
the audiovisual world. He had
won a Goya award for El Truco
del Manco soundtrack. Before
leaving Cuba, I used to make
music for Hubert de Blanck
theater company. In Madrid we
found Sol and Jochi and decided
to join together in a we-arebuddies-so-let´s-do-somethingtogether kind of thing.”
Las cosas de la vida (Life´s
Ways), their first album,
allowed them, through crowd
funding, to take their music
“In Madrid we found Sol and Jochi
and decided to join together in a weare-buddies-so-let´s-do-somethingtogether kind of thing”
to the United States and
strengthen in Spain, besides
being chosen to accompany the
version of A Streetcar Named
Desire by El Ingenio Teatro in
Miami.
And now is the turn for Cuban
people. During their visit to the
Island to record their second
album, El Manicomio (The
Insane Asylum), Picadillo will let
us taste their original proposal
which reminds us at the same
time of musicians and sounds
that we have heard before, a
mixing of elements from jazz,
blues, and the Cuban key.
“On May 2nd and 8th we will be
playing at El Sauce. It will be our
first time. We have been looking
forward to it since we played at
FAC six months ago. I think that
the connection with the audience will come naturally.”
May 2015
61
Dance
Theatre
AND
HAVANA
DANCED
THE THEATRICAL
IMPULSE OF
LITORAL
By: Martica Minipunto
The stage of the Historic Center of
Old Havana was not the same for
five days. Its cobblestone alleys,
square, parks, and museums
danced along with the participants of the 20th edition of the
International Dance Festival in
Urban Landscapes: Old Havana,
city in motion.
With participants from eleven
countries, the event used natural
contexts and settings to bring
dance and people closer together,
beyond the existing conventional
spaces for this performing art.
This was the time for groundbreaking proposals within the
contemporary dance panorama,
which does not mean that each
choreography had a modern
language; dance accommodates
all styles whether classic, contemporary, folklore, flamenco, traditional or fusion.
This way, dance companies
like Retazos host of the festival,
Rosario Cárdenas, Danza Contemporánea de Cuba (Contemporary Dance of Cuba), Danza del
Alma de Villa Clara (Soul Dance
from Villa Clara), Danza Espiritual
de Matanzas (Spiritual Dance
from Matanzas), Company E
and Bistoury Company from the
United States, Klaus Danza, and
Kalúa Company from Colombia,
among others came together.
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Photo: Ana Patricia Marzoa
By: José Ernesto G. Mosquera
A CHRYSALIS
IN RAGS
Chrysalis was the opening play
of the company Danza Teatro
Retazos (Dance and Theater
Company “Rags”) for the street
festival. The play returns to
the topic of human relationships through the metaphor of
the animals, the wild, and the
incomprehensible. It is not about
the movement used as a mere
aesthetic support. Each step
conveys intentions leading toward
the polemic existence of humans
beings in relation to the surroundings they inhabit.
There are no visible faces, but
pantomime and symbols. Dancing
gives in to the voiceless theater
impulse, loneliness, and gloomy
melancholy the audience always
expects to see from Retazos.
The play Litoral has been on at
Bertolt Brecht in April. This play
constitutes Canadian-Lebanese
Wajdi Mouawad's debut in Cuba,
with LUDI THEATER, a group
directed by Miguel Abreu. The
production sticks to the complexities, and drama ups and downs
of the original.
With a numerous cast, Litoral
unfolds through young actors.
Among them, the performances
of Andros Perugorría, Giselle
González, Yoelvis Lobaina, Francisco López and Grisell de Las
Nieves stand out. They constantly
evoke situations from the text,
and more often than not, address
their topics, transformations, and
harshness from the perspective
of understanding.
Regarding staging, the
dramatic version was weak. In
order to tell the story of Wilfrid,
a more critical look to the dual
structure at the text (fiction/
reality, cinema/theater, life/
death) was missing which
affected the atmosphere due to
some explanatory events particularly at the beginning.
Nonetheless, scenography
narrates from an installing operational capacity. Costume design
plays with the ambiguous, the
extraordinary, and the closeness being an ideal part of the
above-mentioned dual structure
of the text.
Let Litoral serve to share the
burden of a journey, apparently
endless, with a corpse (the very
same father) like the journey
of a contemporary hero. The
quest for the ideal burial place
becomes a metaphor for the
reinvention of an identity. A
possible story for the big screen.
A theatrical impulse for LUDI
THEATER.
May 2015
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