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2 unusual facts about Paquito D'Rivera


Gerald Danovitch

In 1989 Paquito D'Rivera composed New York Suite for the Gerald Danovich Saxophone Quartet.

Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album

Paquito D'Rivera and Pepe Rivero – Clazz: Continental Latin Jazz.


20-N

The Spanish general election on November 20, 2011 coincided with the 75th anniversary of de Rivera's execution.

Cárcamo de Dolores

The Cárcamo de Dolores (Sump of Dolores) is a hydraulic structure located on the Second Section of Chapultepec Park, in Mexico City, comprising the building designed by architect Ricardo Rivas, inside the originally underwater mural Agua, el origen de la vida (Water, source of life) of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, the art installation Cámara Lambdoma by Ariel Guzik, and in outside, the Tlaloc Fountain, also of Rivera.

Carlos Emilio Morales

In 1967, Morales became a founding member of the Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna, an 18-piece big band conceived and directed by Armando de Sequeira Romeu, which featured players such as Chucho Valdés, Paquito D'Rivera, Arturo Sandoval and Carlos Averhoff, among others, who together with Morales founded the Irakere group in 1973.

Cloud Tectonics

Rivera puts magical realism (he studied screenwriting with Gabriel García Márquez at the Sundance Institute in 1989) to good use in the play by distorting our conceptions of time, space, and even (although not to the same extent) sound.

Cristina Pato

Pato has collaborated with artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Silk Road Ensemble, Arturo O'Farrill, The Chieftains, Paquito D'Rivera, The World Orchestra, Damian Woetzel, Lil Buck, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Osvaldo Golijov and in more than twenty recordings as a guest artist.

Ed Cherry

Since that time, he has worked with several well-known jazz performers, including Paquito D'Rivera, Jon Faddis, John Patton Hamiet Bluiett, Henry Threadgill, and Paula West.

Efraín Rivera Pérez

Efraín Rivera Pérez (1951- 15 September 2013) born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico , was a former Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.

Ernie Rivera

In 2006, Rivera worked with director Kevin Kerslake, as a Gothic Model in a music video for the band Anti-Flag.

Esther Scliar

Esther spent the first years of her life in Rivera, Uruguay, but her parents separated and Scliar moved with her father to Passo Fundo where she and her sister were raised by their aunt, Jayme Scliar Kruter.

Estrellas de Areito

Estrellas de Areito (The Stars of Areito) was an ensemble involving over thirty of Cuba's musicians, including Rubén González, Richard Egües, Nino Rivera, Félix Chappotín, Miguelito Cuní, Pío Leyva, Arturo Sandoval, Tata Güines and Paquito D'Rivera.

French blockade of the Río de la Plata

The alliance between Cullen and Rivera did not take place, as Juan Pablo López, brother of Estanislao López, defeated Cullen and drove him away from the province.

Giants–Yankees rivalry

Metal band Metallica played their famous song Enter Sandman as part of the ceremony due to Rivera using it as his entrance song throughout his career.

Gregorio Araneta Avenue

It is an 8-10 lane divided avenue designated as part of Circumferential Road 3 (C-3) which travels from Sergeant Rivera Street, at its north end in Balintawak, and meets Nicanor Domingo Street in the south in San Juan near the border with Santa Mesa, City of Manila.

Guillermo Rivera

José Guillermo Rivera Escobar (born November 25, 1969 in San Rafael Cedros, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran football (soccer) player.

Hansen Nichols

His rendition of the song “Wala Kang Katulad” which was first sang by Ariel Rivera became part of the album Scholars Sing Cayabyab – a compilation album of Ryan Cayabyab-composed songs performed by the Pinoy Dream Academy Season 2 Top 10 scholars.

José Manuel Rivera

Rivera debuted with RoPS on May 6 in a victory 1-0 against FF Jaro and on May 9 he scored his first 2 goals in a draw 3-3 against IFK Mariehamn.

Kimberly Rivera

A long-time resident of Mesquite, Texas, Rivera worked at Walmart prior to her military service, meeting her future husband Mario there.

Luis Antonio Rivera

Rivera came up with the name of Yoyo Boing for representing Jughead; the name "Yoyo" sounded close to "Jughead", and the "Boing" part was a gimmick Rivera developed for the character: a vocalized "boing" that he constantly repeated to fill in silence gaps during each episode.

Mañana es para siempre

Guillermo Capetillo as Aníbal Elizalde Rivera - Husband of Priscila, son of Montserrat and Gonzalo, brother of Fernanda, Camilo, Santiago, and Liliana, ex-lover of Ana Gregoria.

Marco Rizo

Throughout his career, he arranged for hundreds of top artists: Carmen Miranda, Danny Kaye, Xavier Cugat, Yma Sumac, and Paquito D’Rivera, among many others.

Mariana Ingold

She has brought her music to various continents, sharing the stage with: João Gilberto, Chico Buarque, Fito Páez, Clark Terry, James Moody, Leny Andrade, Alcione, Kit Walker, Paquito D'Rivera and Dave Samuels, among others.

Maripily Rivera

Rivera has been a model since 1995 when she took part in the Miss Puerto Rico Petite pageant.

Nick Rivera

Nicky Jam or Nick Rivera Caminero (born 1980), Puerto Rican singer

Olav Dale

During the 1990'th he also played with great international jazz names such as Philip Catherine, Paquito D'Rivera, Claudio Roditi, Gustavo Bergalli, Phil Woods, Andy Shepherd, Bennie Wallace, Joe Henderson, Maria Schneider, Martial Solal, Diana Krall, Mathias Rüegg and Gianluigi Trovesi.

Organización Democrática Nacionalista

ORDEN helped control the 1972 elections, in which reform-minded José Napoleón Duarte lost to Arturo Armando Molina (of Rivera's party, the Party of National Conciliation (PCN) due to fraud.

Pascual Echagüe

With the support of Juan Antonio Lavalleja and the members of the White Party, he crossed the Uruguay river in order to attack Rivera, but the latter defeated him at the Battle of Cagancha, on 29 December 1839, in San José Department, Uruguay near the Cagancha creek.

Phoebe Nicholls

Most recently, she played the conniving art critic Rivera in the Royal National Theatre production of the Howard Barker drama, Scenes from an Execution.

Prashant Bhargava

Bhargava has designed effects sequences for Alex Rivera's feature Sleep Dealer (Berlin, Sundance) and directed music videos and promos for bands Cornershop, Talib Kweli and Missy Elliott.

Primo de Rivera

José Antonio Primo de Rivera (1903–1936), lawyer and son of Miguel Primo de Rivera, who founded the fascist-inspired party, Falange Español.

Rail transport in Uruguay

Half of the network is closed, freight trains circulating branches in Montevideo - Rivera - Livramento, Piedra Sola - Three Trees, Sayago - Minas, Verdum-Plant ANCAP, Carnelli-La Teja, Chamberlain - Paysandú - Salto - Concordia and Algorta - Fray Bentos.

Rina Lazo

Her early artistic, social and political life was strongly tied with the that of Rivera and Kahlo, and she became a militant supporter of the Mexican Communist Party.

Rivera Department

The small airport of the city of Rivera receives light aircraft and an irregular service by a Brazilian airline to Porto Alegre.

Rivera, Buenos Aires Province

During the first decade of 20th century, Jews persecuted by the Czar Nicholas II of Russia from different places in the world began arriving in Argentina.

Riverense Portuñol language

It is spoken on the border between Uruguay and Brazil, and more specifically in the region of the twin cities of Rivera (Uruguay) and Santana do Livramento (Brazil).

Robbie Rivera

The song became popular enough that it gave Rivera some face time on Top of the Pops and MTV.

Rodrigo Mora

Born in Rivera, Mora started his professional career with modest Juventud de Las Piedras.

Salvador Mariona

Salvador Antonio Mariona Rivera (born 27 December 1943 in Santa Tecla, El Salvador) is a retired soccer player from El Salvador who represented his country at the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.

Samsung SGH-T919

The Samsung Behold features the music video "Somewhere Else" by YouTube celebrity, Jodie Rivera a.k.a. VenetianPrincess.

Santana do Livramento

Santana do Livramento has an airport but scheduled flights to the Brazilian city usually use Pres. Gral. Óscar D. Gestido International Airport in neighboring Rivera, Uruguay.

It is located along the border with the city of Rivera, Uruguay, which helps form an international city of 200,000 inhabitants.

St. Michael's Church, Old Town, Chicago

The Daughters of Mary or Damas de Maria were also organized by Clotilde Rodriguez, Monin Jimenez, family members of the Flores, Calixto,Lugo,Lucas, Rivera, Trinidad and Eugenia Rodriguez, mother to Jose Cha Cha Jimenez, the founder of the Latino human rights organization the Young Lords.

Steve Rucker

Steve also performed or recorded with Michael Jackson, Paquito D'Rivera, Barry Gibb, Jaco Pastorius, Joe Sample, Johnny Cash, Bo Diddley, the Woody Herman Big Band, the Tommy Dorsey Band (with Warren Covington), Sam Moore and Bob James.

Steven Ross Smith

In 1971, he saw and heard a performance by a sound poetry group called The Four Horsemen consisting of bpNichol, Steve McCaffery, Rafael Barreto-Rivera and Paul Dutton.

Sylvana Gómez

Sylvana Anali Rivera Gómez is a female beach volleyball player from Guatemala, who played with María Orellana in the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Veracruz Sporting Club

The club was founded in 1908 by the native Spaniards living in Veracruz in the early 1900s.The first owners were the brothers Ángel and Mariano Rivera.The club played in the old Liga amateur de Veracruz from 1908 when in 1931 they were invited to pay in the Liga amateur del Distrito Federal After clubs México FC and Real Club España left some spots open due to economical problems.

William Spratling

Using money received from commissions he organized for Rivera, Spratling bought a home in Taxco, Mexico in 1928, where he began work on a book, Little Mexico, about this small mountain town.


see also

Cheo Hurtado

Hurtado has shared scenarios with other great artists such as Alirio Diaz, Aldemaro Romero, Paquito D’Rivera, Oscar D'León, Simón Díaz, Béla Fleck, Serenata Guayanesa, Soledad Bravo, Lilia Vera and María Teresa Chacín, among others.