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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 mars 1678, Venise - 28 juillet 1741, Vienne) est un compositeur italien, l'un des principaux compositeurs de la période baroque.
Issu d'une famille nombreuse, Antonio Vivaldi naît le jour d'un tremblement de terre.
De constitution malingre, il manqua de mourir au berceau et fut baptisé en urgence le jour de sa naissance par la sage-femme elle-même.
Son père, barbier mais aussi violoniste talentueux à la basilique Saint-Marc, l'a aidé à entamer une carrière musicale et l'a fait entrer dans l'orchestre de la Cappella di San Marco, où il fut un violoniste apprécié. Il souffrait d'asthme ce...
Antonio Orozco is a Spanish singer-songwriter from Barcelona, Spain.
He has won several prizes like the Premio Onda and sold lots of records, his first album sold more than 100,000 copies, whereas his second album titled Semilla del Silencio sold over 300,000 copies.
In 2005 he released a self titled album Antonio Orozco, which was a compilation of his best songs (twelve in total) that eventually propelled him into stardom outside Spain, mainly in Latin America and other parts of the world. Some of his better known songs include: "Te Esperaré" and "Déjame".
He is known as well because of...
Antonio Aguilar was a popular Mexican singer, actor, producer and writer. He was from a small town in Zacatecas called Tayahua and was born on May 17, 1919, Died 19 June 2007. This town is close to Villanueva, Zacatecas, Mexico. The story goes that he came to California undocumented and that he slept for three days in the Plazita Olvera or Olvera Street in Los Angeles. He began his acting career during the Golden Era of Mexican Cinematography. He is credited with exposing the sport of la charrería, considered to have originated in Mexico to international audiences.
Antonio Aguilar began...
Born in Cali, Colombia, Antonio Cobo began taking guitar lessons at age six on an instrument given to him by his grandfather; it would become his companion while traveling throughout South America and while living for three years in Spain, Italy and France. Demonstrating the abilities of a natural prodigy, Cobo was sent to the Settlement Musical School at Temple University, Philadelphia; by the age of 16, he was already a music professor for classical guitar at the Music Conservatory, a position he held for five years.
Subsequently relocating to Europe, he studied with Andres Segovia and Alirio Diaz. Expanding...
António Zambujo se distingue des autres chanteurs de fado par son amour pour la tradition et sa volonté d’innover dans un style populaire et classique. Ces dernières années ont été prolifiques pour cet artiste portugais exceptionnel. Il contribue à la résurrection de la tradition du fado au masculin, qui a été quelque peu éclipsée ces dix dernières années par des chanteuses traditionnelles ou progressistes.
Avec Guia, il nous guide sur son propre chemin : celui de son propre fado, qui passe par le « cante alentejano », tout en visitant ses autres influences musicales ; et il nous prouve avec...