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3 unusual facts about César López


César López

López is the creator of the escopetarra, a largely symbolic musical instrument which is an AK-47 converted into a guitar.

So far, only a few dozen of these guitars have been produced, but upon completion, López intends to give the guitars to high-profile musicians across the world, such as Juanes, Fito Páez, Bob Geldof and Manu Chao, and to political and religious leaders such as Kofi Annan.

López's most well-known achievement is the Escopetarra, which are decommissioned AK-47s converted into guitars.



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Azul Violeta

Mixing funk and soul, these Latin rockers were able to convince EMI, which signed them up in 1994 with the following line up: Hugo Rodríguez, Alex Pèrez, Yuri González, Iván González and César López "El Vampiro" releasing America, produced in England by Richard Blair.

Cuban literature

Almost all major writers and poets from the class of 1930 to 1940 (Fayad Jamís, Pablo Armando Fernández, Rolando Escardó, Heberto Padilla, César López, Rafael Alcides, Manuel Díaz Martínez, Antón Arrufat, Domingo Alfonso and Eduardo López Morales, among others) were essentially colloquialists.