Juan Luis Guerra

Juan Luis Guerra is a Compositor, Producer and Singer is From Dominican Republic, He Is was of the pioneer in Merengue music and Bachata music. Juan Luis Guerra is know like a Man of Faith

Juan Luis Guerra has been so influenced in our that music, that now the bachata and merengue is know around the world, The way he compose his music and his lyrics is when the music and all the instruments and all ready recorded, then he start thinking on the lyrics. He apart to be a composer and producer he like to read poetry most of the time, he says poetry help him to create the lyrics of his songs.

All the lyrics of Juan Luis Guerra have to be with Jesus and Faith.

He obtained his First Grammy with “ Bachata Rosa Album” this album is a really excellent album in all the aspects lyrics, arrangements, and Instrumentation.

In 1990, they released Bachata Rosa, which became a major hit and earned Guerra his first Grammy award. The album, having sold more than five million copies at that time, allowed Juan Luis Guerra to keep touring Latin America, USA and Europe. The album contains famous and memorable love songs such as "Burbujas de Amor" (Bubbles of Love), "Bachata Rosa", "Rosalia", "Como Abeja al Panal" (Like a Bee to Honeycomb), "A Pedir Su Mano" (Asking For Her Hand), "Carta de Amor" (Love Letter), and "Estrellitas y Duendes" (Little stars and elves).

Juan Luis Guerra has been called for numerically charity events around South America and Center America, He says he is inspire in may ways first like a musician with The Beatles and then personally with his Wife and God, the last two are his more important and inspire him to write and Compose Music.

One of his goals in that his music can be play in Country like Japan, and China. In the beginning of his career Juan Luis Guerra use a combination of Jazz and Merengue to compose his music, but later on he realize his Latin arrangements and compositions catch the American people attention we he was studied in Berklee College.

I been listen to Juan Luis Guerra music almost 7 years, for me like a student that like the music would be a privilege to work with him in the future, not only for his music but also to for his faith and for his good acts he do for the people. 

Podcast 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixplm6Sg1iU&feature=youtu.be

Podcast 1

http://soundcloud.com/javier-torres-garcia/eleanor-rigby-podcast

Peer Comment 2

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You should keep the same type of Font for each assignment that will make your work more serious. and try to put some pictures or some animation stuff to make your blog more interesting, besides that good job.

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Electronic Music Innovations

Brian Eno

Brian Eno has been one the, of the most influenced in Electronic Music and the pioneer of Ambient music. Eno is a musician, compositor, producer and visual artist, Eno professional music career began in London as a member of the band “Roxy Music”.

Eno start his solo career and created four albums of largely electronically, one’s of Brian Eno new methods of making music or sound was to used a graphic notation to represent what could not be possible be conveyed by conventional notes on a staff.

After couple years Brian Eno continued producing and making “Ambient Electronic” and acoustic albums, he credited the term “Ambient Music”.

In 1973 Brian Eno developed a tape delay system described as “Frippertronics”

Brian Eno also introduced the concept of “Chance Music” to popular audiences, partially through collaborations with other musicians Brian has worked with so many artist like David Bowie, he produced several albums for the “ Talking Heads” for U2 and Coldplay just to mention few.

Brian Eno has had a huge impact in my music career, like innovate new stuff in the industry creating and producing new music. He had the opportunity to worked with so many excellent bands like “Coldplay, U2 , Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, he has been one of the pioneer of Electronic music and Ambient music, So for me like a fan of electronic music Brian Eno is a really influenced in my Music career.

Electronic Music

Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk were the pioneers of Electronic music, Kraftwerk were form by Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider in 1970. Kraftwerk sound were combines with a lot of synths, repetitive rhythms and catchy melodies, they were also the pioneer of using the vocoder generated by a computer speech software, they used a lot of Flutes, synthesizer, electro violin, electric organ and a vocoder, Kraftwerk music influences in many groups of that decade, using the same style of music and the same style of clothing.

In 1974 they release Autobahn moving away from the sounds of its earlier albums, they start using more sophisticated and advanced synths like the Minimoog. Autobahn was also the last album that Conny Plank would engineer. Autobahn was a success in Europe and United States this album was inspire and creating for the road trips the band had to do. After the success of Autobahn they start touring around Europe, The two albums releases afterward, Radio activity and Trans – Europe Express. They won a Gold disc in France for radio activity even though wasn’t to success in UK and United States, Trans- Europe Express won a disco award in New York. In 1978 Kraftwerk release the Man Machine recorded at the Kling Klang Studio, the cover of the new album was produced in black, white and read, this showed the band dressed in red shirts and black ties.  After three years of the released of Man Machine Kraftwerk released a new album called Computer World the single of this album “The Model” reached the position number one in UK making the “The Model” Kraftwerk most successful record in the UK

Kraftwerk music has directly influenced in many groups of that decade and until now Kraftwerk music still influenced in many groups and artist some examples are: Depeche mode, Gary Numan, Ultravox, Human League and Soft cell and just to name few. Kraftwerk aslo influenced other type of music like hip- hop and minimal electro

Another Kraftwerk influences were their clothing and style. They were also the Pioneer of Led lights with their name on it in the stage.

I like electronic music before I read about Kraftwerk, but for me its good to know who were the pioneer of Electronic music, they influenced so much until now that you can still hear that type of music in radios, podcast and television, Kraftwerk sound is so unique and robotic that just to listen the first seconds of any track you know are them.

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Ricardo

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