Rodrigo de la Cadena
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Rodrigo Alvarez de la Cadena (born 3 January 1988) is a Mexican singer, performer, songwriter, radio host, and musician. He is best known for his performances with a variety of worldwide artists and performers. He is also the host of a live radio show in which he performs and introduces audiences with his music.
, Gonzalo Curiel, María Grever
, Los Panchos
, Pedro Vargas
, Amparo Montes, and Álvaro Carrillo
), becoming the most faithful lover and present impeller of Bolero music, having a repertoire of more than 900 songs as well as his own original material.
Rodrigo not only has had the professional support of artists like Armando Manzanero
, Roberto Cantoral
, Lucho Gatica
, Carlos Lico, Imelda Miller, Enrique Chia, Gualberto Castro
, Chamin Correa
, the late Pepe Jara, José José
, among others which he has worked several times but has their inconditional friendship and support, something that very few artists have these days.
Rodrigo has his very own radio show "nuevamente... bolero" every Saturday from 9:00pm to 11:00pm on Radio Trece 1290 am which goes out to almost every city in the Mexican Republic, offering two straight hours of romance and memories of the great years of romantic bolero
music with special guests every night.
He has performed in Mexico City
's major stages such as the National Auditorium, Metropolitan Theatre, Libanes Theatre, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), La Salle University; as well as in the most important hotels and night clubs in Mexico City such as The Sheraton Hotel and The Mayan Palace Hotel, the Gabanna night club and the Bar Prim.
Rodrigo has recorded two official albums, the first one called "Nuevamente... El Bolero" which was recorded in the studios of the album's label Orfeon
offers songs by the most influential songwriters of bolero music and contains 12 tracks which were chosen out of 30 studio recordings.
Rodrigo after quitting his label Orfeon goes back to his very first recordings with Alejandro Hernández and starts recording his second album "Boleros Con Orquesta" with his very own orquestra and releases it as independent.
"It has always been a dream to make a proyect of boleros in big band and specially putting it on record and with my very own orquestra, everything turned out even better that I expected" says the young artist who not only played piano, guitar and sung in every recording but also produced the album and arranged the music. Throwing a little bit of poetry in this new album, Rodrigo lets his feelings show by reciting words of Amado Nervo and Martin Galas giving the album more romance.
Rodrigo not only has been invited to every International Festival Of Bolero that has happened in the last few years in the Mexican republicin but has been invited to perform in the same festival in countries like Ecuador, Cuba, Argentina, Panama, among others, offering several presentations in the most important stages these countries have to offer.
Rodrigo is now doing presentations in Miami, San Antonio, Mérida and Ecuador as well as recording his third record which will include for the first time new original material written by Rodrigo as well as a duet with Carlos Lico.
Biography
Rodrigo de la Cadena has become a multifaceted young artist, passionate by the Golden Age of romantic music (Agustín LaraAgustín Lara
Agustín Lara was a Mexican singer and songwriter.-Biography:Lara was born in Tlacotalpan, Veracruz. Later, the Lara family had to move again to Mexico City, establishing their house in the borough of Coyoacán. After Lara's mother died, Agustín and his siblings lived in a hospice run by their...
, Gonzalo Curiel, María Grever
María Grever
María Grever was the first Mexican female musician to become a successful composer.Maria Joaquina de la Portilla Torres was born to a Spanish father and Mexican mother in Mexico. After spending much of her childhood in Spain, she returned with her parents to Mexico at the age of 12. She studied...
, Los Panchos
Los Panchos
Los Panchos was an internationally famous Latin pop trio known for its romantic ballads and boleros.-History:...
, Pedro Vargas
Pedro Vargas
Pedro Vargas Mata was a Mexican singer and actor, from the golden age of Mexican cinema. He was known as the "Nightingale of the Americas".-Biography:...
, Amparo Montes, and Álvaro Carrillo
Álvaro Carrillo
Álvaro Carrillo Alarcón was a Mexican popular music composer born in San Juan Cacahuatepec, Oaxaca, on 2 December 1921, who died in a car accident on 3 April 1969...
), becoming the most faithful lover and present impeller of Bolero music, having a repertoire of more than 900 songs as well as his own original material.
Rodrigo not only has had the professional support of artists like Armando Manzanero
Armando Manzanero
Armando Manzanero Canché is a Mexican musician and composer of Maya descent, widely considered the premier Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era and one of the most successful composers of Latin America....
, Roberto Cantoral
Roberto Cantoral
Roberto Cantoral Garcia was a Mexican composer, singer and songwriter. He was known for composing a string of hit Mexican songs, including El Triste, Al Final, La Barca and El Reloj...
, Lucho Gatica
Lucho Gatica
Luis Enrique Gatica Silva, better known as Lucho Gatica, is a Chilean bolero singer, film actor, and television host. It is estimated that Gatica has released more than 90 recordings. He has toured a vast portion of the world, having made concerts in Europe, the Middle East and Asia...
, Carlos Lico, Imelda Miller, Enrique Chia, Gualberto Castro
Gualberto Castro
Gualberto Antonio Castro is of Mexican and Lebanese ancestry from his father side of the family and French and Mexican descent from his mother's side, Gualberto is a Mexican singer-entertainer best known for singing with Los Hermanos Castro aka and for hosting the...
, Chamin Correa
Chamin Correa
Chamin Correa, is a Latin-American guitarist from Mexico. He is renowned in the Spanish-speaking world for his traditional romantic music. Member of Los Tres Caballeros together with Roberto Cantoral and Leonel Gálvez from 1954...
, the late Pepe Jara, José José
José José
José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz , known by his artistic name José José, is a Mexican singer.Referred in the entertainment world as "El Príncipe de la Canción" , José José is best known for his romantic ballads and renowned for his vocals...
, among others which he has worked several times but has their inconditional friendship and support, something that very few artists have these days.
Rodrigo has his very own radio show "nuevamente... bolero" every Saturday from 9:00pm to 11:00pm on Radio Trece 1290 am which goes out to almost every city in the Mexican Republic, offering two straight hours of romance and memories of the great years of romantic bolero
Bolero
Bolero is a form of slow-tempo Latin music and its associated dance and song. There are Spanish and Cuban forms which are both significant and which have separate origins.The term is also used for some art music...
music with special guests every night.
He has performed in Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
's major stages such as the National Auditorium, Metropolitan Theatre, Libanes Theatre, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), La Salle University; as well as in the most important hotels and night clubs in Mexico City such as The Sheraton Hotel and The Mayan Palace Hotel, the Gabanna night club and the Bar Prim.
Rodrigo has recorded two official albums, the first one called "Nuevamente... El Bolero" which was recorded in the studios of the album's label Orfeon
Orfeon
Orfeon may refer to:* Orfeon Académico de Coimbra, a Portuguese choir group* Orfeon Chamber Choir, a Turkish choir group* Orfeon Records, a Turkish record label...
offers songs by the most influential songwriters of bolero music and contains 12 tracks which were chosen out of 30 studio recordings.
Rodrigo after quitting his label Orfeon goes back to his very first recordings with Alejandro Hernández and starts recording his second album "Boleros Con Orquesta" with his very own orquestra and releases it as independent.
"It has always been a dream to make a proyect of boleros in big band and specially putting it on record and with my very own orquestra, everything turned out even better that I expected" says the young artist who not only played piano, guitar and sung in every recording but also produced the album and arranged the music. Throwing a little bit of poetry in this new album, Rodrigo lets his feelings show by reciting words of Amado Nervo and Martin Galas giving the album more romance.
Rodrigo not only has been invited to every International Festival Of Bolero that has happened in the last few years in the Mexican republicin but has been invited to perform in the same festival in countries like Ecuador, Cuba, Argentina, Panama, among others, offering several presentations in the most important stages these countries have to offer.
Rodrigo is now doing presentations in Miami, San Antonio, Mérida and Ecuador as well as recording his third record which will include for the first time new original material written by Rodrigo as well as a duet with Carlos Lico.
Discography
- Nuevamente... El BoleroNuevamente... El BoleroNuevamente... El Bolero is the first solo album by artist Rodrigo de la Cadena. It was first released in 2005. Out of the 12 songs released on this album, there were over 30 demos of different compositions by Agustín Lara, Luis Demetrio, Armando Manzanero, etc...
(2005) - Boleros con OrquestaBoleros con OrquestaBoleros Con Orquesta is the second solo album by artist Rodrigo de la Cadena. It was originally intended to be released in late 2006, but because of the difficulty of schedule of his international tour it was delayed until January 2007...
(2007) - La Bohemia del Amor (2008)