Rubén Rada
Rubén Rada was born in Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay on June 17th, 1943 and is the Composer. At the age of 80, Rubén Rada biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Omár Rubén "Negro" Rada Silva (born 16 July 1943) is a Uruguayan percussionist, composer, and singer.
He is closely associated with candombe, a musical form based on a chorus of tamboriles and Uruguayan barrel drums.
Rada has released more than 30 albums.
His music, which has been dubbed candombe beat, blends pop, rock, and other genres with Uruguayan sounds, such as candombe drums and murga choruses.
Rada has composed some of Uruguay's most popular songs.
Personal life
Rada, an Afro-Uruguayan, is a descendent of partial Brazilian descent through his mother.
Career
He and Eduardo Mateo formed the band El Kinto Conjunto in 1965. This was the first group in Uruguay to invent the beat genre in Spanish (Castilian) and to fuse rock with Latin American musical styles. "The Apples"), Candombe's 1969 debut, led to his first solo album and participation in the Festival of Popular Music in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tótem is a boy who performed in high school. More than thirty albums have been released.
He came to the United States in 1977 after the Fattoruso Brothers invited him to participate in OPA. He appeared with Tom Scott, Ray Barretto, Hermeto Pascoal, and Flora Purim over the next year.
He lived in Mexico between 1991 and 1994, where he performed as a composer and arranger for local musicians such as Mijares, Eugenia León, Stephanie Salas, and Tania Libertad. In 1994, he starred in the spotlight with Sting and UB40 at the Palacio de Deportes in Mexico City.
Rada has earned renown outside of the region and has appeared on international labels, including EMI Latin and Universal Records. Milton Nascimento, Herb Alpert, and Lani Hall have all performed his songs, and they have been recorded worldwide. Jon Anderson and Joan Manuel Serrat had invited him to appear on their albums Deseo and Utopa, respectively. Paul McCartney of the United Kingdom and Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento are among his admirers.
Hiram Bullock, Anton Fig, José Pedro Beledo, Hugo Fattoruso, Bakithi Kumalo, and Ringo Thielmann were recorded in New York City's Montevideo (1996) and Montevideo II (1999). Montevideo's grossing in Uruguay hit platinum status.
In the 2004 Argentinian dubbing of The Incredibles, he appeared as Lucius Best/Frozone. Radar (radio) and El Teléfono (TV) are among his radio and TV shows directed by him. He appeared in the television sitcom La Oveja Negra (The Black Sheep), beginning in October 2007.
Rubén Rada's third round of the series LifeLines at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin in April 2010 paid tribute to him. As part of the Bicentenario, three days of concerts and talks on his life and work focused on Latin America's 200th anniversary of independence movements.
In 2010, Rada attended a show in Encuentro en El Estudio, the Venezuelan Ministry of Education's ministry of Education.