A version of the Cuban bolero is danced throughout the Latin dance world (supervised by the World Dance Council) under the misnomer 'rumba'.
In the 1980 movie 10, the character played by Bo Derek asks "Did you ever do it to Ravel's Bolero?", a reference to the thinking that the work is a good soundtrack for making love to.
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In the Top Gear Winter Olympics special, Boléro is used during the speed skating portion when Jeremy Clarkson, in a Jaguar XK, races a human skater.
The album featured the songs, "Ljubav" ("Love"), featuring lead vocals by the starring actor Ivan Jevtović, and "Dezodorans" ("Deodorant"), and the rest of the released material consisted of instrumental tracks, including a cover version of Maurice Ravel's Boléro.
A feature every concert was the encore, almost always Ravel's "Boléro" or Goldman's own march composition "On the Mall" accompanied by the audience singing the theme.
It features a drummer in an orchestra, played by Jacques Villeret, who plays a simple, repetitive rhythm on his single drum during a performance of Maurice Ravel's Boléro.
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The venue opened on 30 January 1937 with performances by Akarova from Francis Poulenc's Les Biches, Ravel's Boléro, and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.
Besame Mucho El Musical, jukebox musical with Bolero hit songs from the 1920s and 1930s
Bolero Records is an independent record label established in March of 2002 by world renowned Nuevo Flamenco guitarist, Armik, based in Tarzana, California.
She is considered one of the most versatile voices in Venezuela to sing music like Son, the Guajira, the rhythmic Montuno and Bolero.
Darío de Jesús Gómez Zapata, also known as El Rey del Despecho, (born February 6, 1951 in San Jerónimo, Antioquia) is a Colombian singer and composer of vals, corridos and boleros.
Virus (Big & Rich)(Dope)Lords of Acid(Rock of Ages) Virus switched from Dean Guitars to DBZ Guitars in 2008, he uses the Bird of Prey, Cavallo, Bolero Calavera, and Imperial.
Renato Borghetti was prominent in new versions of two hits: "Toda Forma de Poder" and "Refrão de Bolero".
Largely self-taught, she had a warm contralto voice as her innovative behind-the-beat phrasing and emotional intensity that she put into the words she sang, served to turn novelty tunes and light songs into definitive, bolero-based treatments.
She has also interpreted Romeo and Juliet, Buak, Bolero, Swan Lake, The Taming of the Shrew, Cinderella, A la memoire (Mahler), Carmina Burana (Carl Orff) and Orpheus (Stravinsky).
Known for her contralto vocal texture and her repertoire of love ballads and boleros, she collaborated extensively with singer-songwriters from elsewhere in Latin America, particularly Mexican standards such as Los Panchos and Armando Manzanero; among her best-known, non-Hispanic interpretations is that of Paul Anka's My Way.
The story is told to an abridged Boléro, the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth and Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man as well as Maxi’s Song, composed by author Hallfríður, and the Icelandic all-time favourite “Á Sprengisandi” by Sigvaldi Kaldalóns.
Between June and August 1997, Bolero was chartered by Estline and employed on the Stockholm - Tallinn route.
Almost 50 years later he is remembered as the great and "famous" singer who sang boleros at a public performance in Villavicencio, in 1959.
It included hits such as Joan Manuel Serrat's "Señora", the bolero version of the Gardel/Lepera tango "Volver", and the Rubén Blades composition "Guaguancó Triste", as well as the salsa version of James Taylor's "Fire And Rain".
"Rock 'n' Roll Bolero" was later included as a bonus track on the remaster of the 1977 album Whatever Happened to Slade, the 2006 Japanese Air Mail Archive remaster of the 1979 album Return to Base, and part of the 2006 four-disc box set The Slade Box.
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"Rock 'n' Roll Bolero" is a non-album single from the rock band Slade.
Rodríguez then tried his luck with boleros and recorded various albums, which gave way to various hit songs, particularly "Inolvidable" (Unforgettable), composed by Julio Gutiérrez, and "En La Soledad", (In Solitude), composed by Puchi Balseiro, which are considered by many to be his most successful songs.