Rita Indiana
Gato Barbieri
Finalist in Literature Prize
Argentine Jazz-Star dead
Roy Tabaré Being beaten or beating?
The Dominican artist Rita Indiana is one of five finalists for the II. Mario Vargas Llosa Biennale Prize for short stories, which will be awarded in Lima on the 21st of April. The Biennale, in which more than 250 opuses from 16 countries have applied, is organized by the Peruvian university UTEC, the Lectureship Vargas Llosa, the Acción Cultural Española, the Peruvian Ministry of Culture and the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, and has a prize money of 100,000 dollars. Rita Indiana Hernández is currently living in Puerto Rico. After three stories she devoted herself to music and published only one album as Rita Indiana y Los Misterios, “El juidero”, a kind of psychedelic Merengue in a typical Dominican slang, which made her known more internationally than nationally. Then Rita Indiana returned to literature, but wants to keep making music for movies and the Internet. “La mucama de Ominculé”, according to Rita Indiana, is a tragicomic perspective of capitalism in poor countries such as hers. The protagonist is a Messiah who uses his powers to travel in time and to enrich himself.
After the news that there was issued a detention order for the musician and composer Roy Tabaré because of violence against his ex-wife Linnette de Rosario, he assured, he will come to Santo Domingo as soon as possible in order to comment on the allegations. Nothing of this was true. Precisely the opposite was the case. His wife had been violent against him. The TV presenter from Miami, on the other hand, wrote her own version on facebook. With Roy Tabaré with whom she lived together for two years, she got to know a yet unknown underworld for her, with addicts, thieves and fugitives. The only thing she did during their relationship was to help him to kick the habit of using drugs.
Omega Three Months in Custody While the singer Vakero was finally acquitted of charges of violence against his ex-wife Martha Heredia, the prison gates closed again behind his fellow musician Omega for three months. He is accused of his 20-year-old ex-partner, with whom he lived four years, to have her kidnapped, to beat her and to have her assaulted psychologically and sexually. Which according to him is pure fantasy.
One of the great legends of Jazz has died. The Argentine jazz saxophonist Leandro “Gato” Barbieri, who composed, among other things, the music for the film “Last Tango in Paris”, which was awarded the Grammy in 1973, died of pneumonia on the 2nd of April at the age of 83 years in New York. At the age of twelve, Leandro Barbieri learned playing the clarinet, after he heared Charlie Parker. In Buenos Aires he took lessons in music and switched to the alto saxophone. His nickname “Gato”, cat, he got, because he was moving so fast between the nightclubs of Buenos Aires. In the Orchestra of Lalo Schiffrin, Gato Barbieri made himself an international name. In the late fifties he switched to the tenor saxophone and made avant-garde Jazz before he turned to melodic South American sounds in the seventies, which helped him to earn a great prestige in the world of Jazz. In 1985, Gato Barbieri was awarded the Premio Konex as one of the best Jazz musicians in the history of Argentina. Last year, he got the Latin Grammy for his lifetime achievement.