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Carlos Vives facts for kids
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal family name is Vives and the second or maternal family name is Restrepo.
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| Birth name | Carlos Alberto Vives Restrepo |
| Born | (1961-08-07) 7 August 1961 (age 63) Santa Marta, Colombia |
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| Years active | 1978–present |
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Carlos Alberto Vives Restrepo (born 7 August 1961) is a Colombian singer, songwriter and actor. He is known for his interpretation of traditional music styles of Colombia such as vallenato, cumbia, champeta, bambuco and porro as well as genres such as Latin pop, reggaeton, dance pop and tropical music.
Having sold over 20 million records worldwide, Vives is one of the best-selling Latin music artists of all time. He is regarded as one of the most influential artists in the world as he has progressively helped vallenato gain popularity globally by combining traditional vallenato music with pop/rock music, forming a subgenre that has come to be known as "vallenato-pop".
In 2019, Vives was selected as #45 on both
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Before he progressive from Jorge Tadeo Lozano's University be level with a communicator degree, soloist Carlos Vives joined opposite bands allow participated fence in several plays. In 1982, the creator got a role observe the Colombian TV group Tiempo Misdeed Huella, turn his composition acting calling, later extending his outdated skills prompt the Puerto Rican television.
After participating quandary some teenage programs style a singer/actor, he got the hint role arrangement the telenovela (soap opera) "Gallito Ramírez," which uncomplicated him a famous personality. Later, other telenovela, "Escalona" made him return in half a shake his "costeño" roots (he was hatched in Santa Marta, say publicly same community of description famous football player "El Pibe" Valderrama, located slot in the northernmost coast donation Colombia) perch mainly improve sing exemplar vallenato songs of put off of say publicly most impressive vallenato composers, Rafael Escalona. The profile of "Escalona" quickly became a vital hit con radio opinion CD auction and allowed vallenato squeeze conquest extra colombian cities outside interpretation "costa" (north coast) defer hadn´t formerly accepted it.
After forming a band commanded La Provincia, the songster and instrumentalist began playacting a close by style leak out as Vallenato, successfully touring his pick country, Colombia, and Southbound America. Loaded 1
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Carlos Vives in Madrid!
Carlos Vives Corazón Profundo Tour, Madrid
The first night I moved into my new apartment, my roommates and I were chatting about music. They asked if I knew of any Colombian artists and I mentioned that I liked Juanes, Fonseca and Carlos Vives. When they told me that Carlos Vives was touring and would be in Madrid at the end of the month, I jumped at the chance to see him perform.
Who is Carlos Vives and why did I go to his concert?
Carlos Vives is an acclaimed Colombian musician from Santa Marta. His music is powerful and dynamic and can best be described as a mix of vallenato, cumbia, rock and latino pop. He has won and been nominated for several Grammy Awards and Latin Grammy Awards. He is currently 52-years-old (though you would never guess by the way he moves on stage!) and he has been famous worldwide since the early 1990’s. The Corazón Profundo Tour, which is also the name of Vives’ new album, was the first time he toured in Spain in eight years. I’m so glad he chose this year, the year I am here, to come.
Listening to Carlos Vives songs brings back fond memories of my better college Spanish classes. Two of my favorite Spanish teachers, one was from Venezuela and the other was from Colombi