Latin Grammy for Leo Brouwer and Chucho Valdés

The composer, conductor and performer Leo Brouwer, and pianist Chucho Valdes, both of Cuba, won today in Los Angeles (California) Latin Grammy Awards 2010. In the case of Brouwer, it is his first award in the category of Best Classic Album, with the CD integral String Quartets. While for Chucho Valdés is his seventh, which he won along with Spanish singer Concha Buika, awarded to the best traditional tropical album for "the last drink", recorded in Havana in 2009. Produced by the General Society of Authors and Publishers of Spain, Brouwer disk with the participation of the String Quartet in Havana and was recorded in the theater El Jardinito de Cabra and El Gran Teatro, in the southern Andalusian city of Cordoba. This was part of the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of the Cuban composer, labeled by critics as one of the five greatest living guitarists in the world, remember the news agency Prensa Latina. The winner shared the nomination with Argentina's Fernando Otero and his album Life. The disk of Chucho Valdes, who also aims to better record of the year, was produced by the Spanish guitarist Javier Limón, and pays tribute to the nine decades of work of the Mexican Chavela Vargas. It has 13 classic tracks of Jose Alfredo Jimenez, Agustin Lara and Armando Tejada Gomez, and in this Chucho's Album also participates the Cuban artist Eduardo Roca (Choco), with a drawing for the cover. To Buika, is her first Grammy since its debut in 2005, and as she expressed during a visit to Havana, was a utopia materialized record with the founder of the band Irakere. I dreamed of far away and by the magic of life was possible to work with him and in Cuba, said on that occasion.