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Lágrimas Negras (album)

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Released
  
2003

Label
  
Calle 54, BMG

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
39:21

Release date
  
2003

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Recorded
  
September – December 2002

Studio
  
Musigrama Studios, Madrid; Avatar Studios, New York; The Hit Factory, Miami; Musiquina, Madrid

Producer
  
Fernando Truebam, Javier Limón

Artists
  
Diego el Cigala, Bebo Valdés

Awards
  
Latin Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Album

Nominations
  
Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Latin Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album

Similar
  
Diego el Cigala albums, Other albums

Lágrimas Negras is a 2003 album by Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger Bebo Valdés and Spanish flamenco singer Diego el Cigala. Lágrimas Negras is a fusion of Cuban rhythms and flamenco vocals, produced by Spanish book editor, screenwriter, film director and producer Fernando Trueba and released by Calle 54 Records and BMG Music Spain.

Contents

Background

During his career Bebo Valdés (born Ramón Emilio Valdés Amaro; 9 October 1918) —one of the founders of Latin jazz, and a pioneer in bringing Afro-Cuban sacred rhythms to popular dance music— won seven Grammy Awards: two for El Arte del Sabor (2002), one for Lágrimas Negras (Black Tears), and two for Bebo de Cuba in 2006 (in the categories "Best Traditional Tropical Album" and "Best Latin Jazz Album").

His last musical production was one recorded with his son: 2008’s Bebo y Chucho Valdés: Juntos para Siempre (Together Forever), winner of the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album at the 52nd Grammy Awards in 2010; they also won the Latin Grammy Award on the same field.

Valdés spent his last years in Málaga, Spain, before heading back to his home in Stockholm a few weeks before his death. He had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease. in Stockholm (Sweden) on March 22, 2013.

Personnel

  • Piano: Bebo Valdés [All Tracks]
  • Vocals: Dieguito el Cigala [All Tracks]
  • Vocals: Dieguito el Cigala & Caetano Veloso [Track 9]

    • Guest musicians

  • Bass: Javier Colina [Tracks: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, & 9]
  • Contrabass: Javier Colina [Track 4]
  • Cajón: Rickard Valdés [Track 1]
  • Cajón: Israel Porrina "Piraña" [Tracks 2, 3, 5, 6 & 8]
  • Alto Saxophone: Paquito D'Rivera [Track 3]
  • Congas: Tata Güines [Track 3]
  • Shekere: Pancho Terry [Track 3]
  • Timbales: Changuito [Track 3]
  • Violin: Federico Britos [Track 4]
  • Guitar: "Niño Josele" (Juan José Heredia) [Track 5]
  • Chorus: Milton Cardona, Pedrito Martínez, Orlando "Puntilla" Ríos [Track 8]

    • Production and design

    Coordinator [Production Coordination In New York]: Derek Kwan, Todd Barkan
    Executive Producer: Fernando Trueba, Nat Chediak
    Mastered by: Alan Silverman
    Photography by: Guillermo Rodriguez
    Photography by [Making Of]: Carlos Carcass
    Producer: Fernando Trueba, Javier Limón
    Recorded by [Additional at Avatar Studios, New York]: Jim Anderson
    Recorded by [Additional at Criteria - The Hit Factory, Miami]: Eric Schilling
    Recorded by [Additional at Musiquina, Madrid]: Javier Limón
    Recorded by [Assistant], Mixed by [Assistant]: Guillaume Cora
    Recorded and mixed by Pepe Loeches

    Songs

    1Inolvidable3:20
    2Veinte años4:04
    3Lágrimas negras5:32

    References

    Lágrimas Negras (album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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