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Mariachi Los Camperos receives their second career Grammy Award by winning Best Regional Mexican Music Album for De Ayer Para Siempre. [12] Marc Anthony's Opus and Aymée Nuviola's A Journey Through Cuban Music both win Best Tropical Latin Album. Anthony receives his third career Grammy Award, while Nuviola wins her first one. [13] [14]
Portugal has had a history of receiving different musical influences from around the Mediterranean Sea, across Europe and former colonies. In the two centuries before the Christian era, Ancient Rome brought with it Greek influences; early Christians, who had their differing versions of church music arrived during the height of the Roman Empire; the Visigoths, a Romanized Germanic people, who ...
The Casa da Música is a concert hall in Porto, Portugal.It was designed by architect Rem Koolhaas and opened in 2005.. Designed to mark the festive year of 2001 in which the city of Porto was designated European Capital of Culture, it was the first building in Portugal aimed from its conception to be exclusively dedicated to music, either in public performances or in the field of artistic ...
3× Platinum [22] How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb: U2: 2004 120,000 3× Platinum [23] Canta Bahia: Various artists 2001 120,000 [24] En Acústico: Pablo Alborán: 2011 105,000 7× Platinum [c] [25] O Melhor de Amália: Estranha Forma de Vida: Amália Rodrigues: 1985 100,000 Platinum [26] Tutte storie: Eros Ramazzotti: 1993 100,000 [27] Titanic ...
It has either 15 strings, arranged in 6 courses of 3-3-3-2-2-2, or 18 strings, arranged in 7 courses of 3-3-3-3-2-2-2. [4] Viola da terra: The viola da terra is a small guitar from the Portuguese islands of the Azores. It has two sound holes in the shape of hearts, and it may have either 12 strings arranged in 5 courses, or 15 strings, arranged ...
To promote the albums She Wolf and Sale el Sol Shakira began her tour The Sun Comes Out, being a success and breaking more attendance records for a Latin artist in general than ever before witnessed. She visited a total of 107 countries raising nearly 80 million dollars and breaking records in Mérida (Mexico) where she broke the attendance ...
The artist Sam the Kid, revered as the king of hip-hop in Portugal, represents Chelas and Zone J; this Marvila neighborhood is adorned with graffiti, another form of street art; and, almost organically, one can find groups of young people listening to hip-hop and making rap music on the streets. Additionally, there are schools with hip-hop ...
The Centro Cultural e de Congressos (CCC, Cultural and Conference Centre), inaugurated on 15 May 2008 by President Aníbal Cavaco Silva and Mayor Fernando José da Costa, [107] is a cultural, performing arts, and conference centre that hosts music, theatre, dance, and cinema, as well as various expositions (expos) and conferences. Expoeste ...