José Simián
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Springsteen and the Religion of Rock and Roll
[Qué Pasa, July 17, 2013] [Continue reading in Qué Pasa]
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Patricia Engel: We May Always Have Paris
[NY Daily News, September 11, 2013] [Read in the Daily News]
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Alejandro Escovedo and His Reason to Blow Your Mind
[NY Daily News, July 10, 2013] [Read in the Daily News]
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Tito Puente’s Quatro
[NY Daily News, April 10, 2013] The Beat Keeps On Going Everybody knows who Tito Puente was and can immediately picture him banging on the timbales or a vibraphone with his infectious smile and bugged-out eyes. But with a career that produced more than 100 albums, knowing where to start appreciating his body of work…
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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…