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Cuban Jam Session Tenor Sax Cachao
1,370 wordsHis name is Israel Lopez, but he is known as Cachao. His real name is music though. Born into a family who were all bass crazy, at least thirty five members of the Cachao clan have played the double bass at one time or another, either with the Havana Filarmonica, or in popular combos. Some of them, like his older brother the late Orestes played with the Filarmonica under the baton of Eric Kleiber, formerly the conductor of the Berlin Opera Orchestra. Cachao was so young then that they had to bui...
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19 Th Century Evil Spirits
1,181 wordsToday over 60 million people practice Vodun worldwide. Religious similar to Vodun can be found in South America where they are called Umbanda, Umbanda or Candomble. It is widely practiced in Benin, where it is the official religion. Vodun (a. k. a. Vodun, Voudou, Voodoo, See Lwa) is commonly called Voodoo by the public. The name is traceable to an African word for "spirit." Vodun's roots go back to the West African Yoruba people who lived in 18 th and 19 th century Dahomey. That country occupied...
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Pulitzer Prize Cuban American
764 wordsComparison Between Life On The Hyphen And Next Year In Cuba by Gustavo Perez Firmat The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else, if not here in English. Gustavo Perez Firmat, The Pulitzer Prize nominee was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Miami, Florida. A poet, fiction writer, and scholar is the author of ten books and over seventy essays and reviews. Th...
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19 Th Century Evil Spirits
1,245 wordsToday over 60 million people practice Vodun worldwide. Religious similar to Vodun can be found in South America where they are called Umbanda, Umbanda or Candomble. It is widely practiced in Benin, where it is the official religion. Vodun (a. k. a. Vodun, Voudou, Voodoo, See Lwa) is commonly called Voodoo by the public. The name is traceable to an African word for spirit. Vodun's roots go back to the West African Yoruba people who lived in 18 th and 19 th century Dahomey. That country occupied p...
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Ha Ha One Step
430 wordsMambo No. 5 Lyrics Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Mambo number five. One, two, three, four, five, everybody in the car so come on lets ride... To the liquor store around the corner. The boys say they want some gin and juice but I really dont wanna. Beerbust like I had last week. I must stay deep cause talk is cheap. I like Angela, Pamela, Sandra and Rita. And as I continue, you know theyre getting sweeter. So what can I do? I really beg you my Lord. To me flirting is just like a sport. Anything f...
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Mambo Kings Play Songs Mambo Kings Play Night
1,081 wordsThe Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Harper Collins Publishers 1989 407 Pages (No Bibliography, Pics, Maps or Index) The book that I read was rather pornographic. It was a story about 2 brothers and 6 other people who put together a band and played in clubs almost every night. After playing their gigs, they? d go off and get drunk and then go sleep with about 4 different girls every night. None of them were settled down because they always were going places and meeting new people. They started the...
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Young Girl Sound Track
1,304 wordsGender And Sexuality Play A Key Part Within The Film Dirty Dancing. Discuss. The film is set in the year of 1963, John F Kennedy was still president and the Vietnam War was not considered a threat, the Beatles had yet not reached America and the Freedom riders were on. In reality the well known and loved, cult girly film, and classic romance was made in 1987. There have been many attempts throughout the film to represent the time in which it was set and yet there are clear indications that the f...
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