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8 unusual facts about Granados


Chicos de Barrio

Amador Granados was sold the reproduction rights of Chicos de Barrio, which in turn lead to Mr. Granados owning any right to reproduce their music.

After one full year of working on the first and original production of Chicos de Barrio Triste Lagunera much was to come ahead for this excellent musical group with the support of Amador Granados.

One day a now great producer for Video Home, Amador Granados came across them and offered to record their first official disc titled, Triste Lagunera for the record label MCM (Metro Casa Musical).

Five years after they originally met with Amador Granados, Metro Casa Musical, and EMI Latin have been some of the few record labels to contract Chicos de Barrio, and pave the way for this spectacular musical group.

Douglas Riva

Receiving a grant from the Beebe Fund, Riva went to Barcelona in 1980, where he studied at the Academia Marshall, founded by Enrique Granados.

A specialist in the music of Granados, Riva is the Assistant Director of the 18 volume critical edition of the Complete Works for Piano of Enrique Granados, directed by Alicia de Larrocha and published by Editorial Boileau, Barcelona, 2001, which is the first complete catalog of the composer's works for piano.

As a recording artist, Riva focuses on Spanish music, and has begun a series of the complete piano works of Granados for the Naxos label.

Neil Galanter

Neil Galanter is an American pianist in Los Angeles, California, who is a leading specialist in researching and performing the works of Iberian/Spanish, Catalan, Belgian, and other European composers including Mompou, Montsalvatge, Granados, Albeniz, Mompou, Blancafort, Espla, and Poot.


Geovanny Jara

Geovanny Jara Granados (born July 20, 1969 in Puntarenas) is a former Costa Rican soccer player who played most of his career for C.S. Herediano and later with Ramonense, Puntarenas FC and A.D. Belén.

Goyescas

In 1915 Granados wrote a one-act opera, also called Goyescas, to a Spanish libretto by Fernando Periquet y Zuaznaba, using melodies from the piano suite.

Jorge Garcia Granados

A direct descendant of Miguel García Granados, the leader and philosopher of the liberal revolution in the 19th century, Granados was the ambassador of his country to the United Nations and a member of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP).

Jorge García-Granados (1900–1961) was a diplomat from Guatemala educated at the Sorbonne in Paris.

José Luis Arribas Granados

Jose Luis Arribas Granados (born January 14, 1975 in Madrid) is a vision impaired B2/S12 swimmer from Spain.

Nosotros los Nobles

The film's plot was taken from the 1949 Mexican film The Great Madcap directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Fernando Soler and Rosario Granados.

Yoximar Granado

Yoximar Granados Mosquera (born March 31, 1992 in Cali) is a Colombian footballer who last played for Fort Lauderdale Strikers in the North American Soccer League.


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