March 2013
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The Man Who Called the President “a Donkey”
In 2007 I was asked to overdub Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez for Barbara Walters’ Ten Most Fascinating People special. It was the first time my voice was going to be heard on national television, and also the first in which I didn’t have to worry about my accent. I exaggerated it and nailed it…
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Sweet Electra + SLV
[NY Daily News, March 6, 2013] Brave New Directions for Alt-Latin Pop José Manuel Simián If you happen to enter the 92YTribeca on March 15, make sure to check your expectations of what alt-Latin pop sounds like at the door. Because the acts taking the stage of the downtown cultural center, electro-pop duo Sweet Electra…
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Jero Rodríguez’s “Epic Encounters”
[NY Daily News, March 6, 2013] Film Cycle Captures Epic Encounters José Manuel Simián What do the study of Argentinean actors rehearsing a Shakespeare play, the traces left by Orson Welles’ trip through Brazil in 1942, and the objects found at the house of a Chilean filmmaker? That they can all be the starting…
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José Manuel Simián 