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TROPICAL LIFESHOWCASINGSTRENGTHSThe Billboard LatinMusic conference isfocusing on how tech-nology is working toshape Latino music’sinfluence. 1C
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Martelly. Also in the mix: aTrinidadian businessman whoonce received a mysterious $1million payment from a firmlinked to Brazil’s ongoing briberyscandal. He is also a close associ-ate of a disgraced former vicepresident of the organization thatruns the World Cup.
Since they first came out thismonth, the Panama Papers —11.5 million secret documents
Of all the tales coming out ofthe Panama Papers scandal, fewinvolve such an intriguing mix ofcharacters as the Haiti petroleumdeal.
The cast includes an ex-bankexecutive, the former head ofHaiti’s investment promotionagency, and a close friend ofthen-Haitian President Michel
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As the director of Haiti’s investment promotion agency, CFI, GeorgesAndy René’s job was to lure investors to Haiti.
Former Miami-Dade mayor andpolice director Carlos Alvarez — astrict disciplinarian who out ofoffice turned to bodybuilding —was arrested on a domestic bat-tery charge that stemmed over afight about a cat, police said.
The 63-year-old Coral Gablesresident, recalled from office fiveyears ago in a stunning rebuke byhis constituents, turned himself in
to police Wednes-day morning. Hewas charged withone count of do-mestic battery andtransported to theTurner GuilfordKnight correctionalfacility.
Miami-DadeCorrections spokeswoman JanelleHall said Alvarez would remain injail overnight Wednesday and seea judge in domestic violence courtThursday morning. His bond wasset at $1,500.
Coral Gables police, who madethe arrest, wouldn’t commentoutside of Alvarez’s arrest report.The report, a brief paragraph withAlvarez’s phone number andaddress blacked out — they’reexempt under state statute be-cause he’s a former police officer— said the incident happenedSunday afternoon.
Police said the former mayorfought with his girlfriend Saturday
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In spatover cat,ex-mayorchargedwithbattery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Carlos Alvarez turned himself into police Wednesday. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Police say Alvarez grabbed andspat on his girlfriend. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
He’ll go before a domesticviolence judge Thursday. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Alvarez
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FPL president and CEO Eric Silagy adds his signature to a solar panel display during an unveiling of a newsolar array at the Florida International College of Engineering. With 4,400 panels, the array will produceenough energy to power nearly 250 homes. Story, 6A
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Few artistic events carry as muchweight of tradition as performancesby symphony orchestras: the dark-suited musicians; the repertoire pil-lars by Mozart, Beethoven and Tchai-kovsky; the procession of overture,
concerto,intermissionand sympho-ny.
While Jo-hannesBrahms orRobert Schu-mann mighthave blinkedat the electriclights andcovered theirears at themodern har-
monies, little else about a perform-ance in 2016 would surprise them.
When the New World Symphonymoved into its new hall in MiamiBeach five years ago, its leaders weredetermined to try alternatives. Oneexample is the concert that will takeplace Saturday, titled simply “NewWork.” There will be nothing on theprogram by masters of the past.Everything will be a world premiere.No one will go in knowing what toexpect, and no one will know anymore about the music than anyoneelse.
“The idea is to have it be more likea gallery opening,” said Michael
Michael TilsonThomas
New Worldaims tosurprise,delight withoriginal works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Three world premieres to beunveiled at New World Symphonyconcert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
One piece was written by artisticdirector Michael Tilson Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Another will be in the form of a play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BY DAVID FLESHLERSouth Florida Classical Review
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T he “tectonic shifts”happening in Latinoculture and music andthe ways new tech-
nology has changed the industryare two topics at the core of this
year’s Billboard Latin Music Con-ference at the Ritz-Carlton hotelin Miami Beach.
“It’s a young conference withspeakers that reflect a youngerdemographic and that explores a
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changes in
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Billboard Latin Music conference takes place in MiamiBeach
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Twenty-seventh edition of conference focuses on newtechnology and genres
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U.S. Hispanics growing clout and numbersreflected in music
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BY DAYSI CALAVIA-ROBERTSONSpecial to the Miami Herald
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which began April 20, andculminates in a two-daysymposium at the Pérez ArtMuseum Miami on Thurs-day and Friday, may nothave the political heft ofPresident Barack Obama’strip to Cuba last month, orthe celebrity visibility ofUsher and Smokey Rob-inson’s recent Havana visit.But these artists’ Miamistay, packed with new ex-periences, revelations,emotional and conceptualconnections and efforts tounderstand a foreign artworld, is a kind of micro-cosm for the complicatedintegration taking placebetween the island and the
Artist Juana Valdésstands at the door of theFountainhead Studios inMiami’s Little River dis-trict, greeting a stream ofher counterparts from Cubawith smiles and kisses.“How lovely you all are!”Valdés says, leading thegroup to her studio, whereshe offers orange juice andpastelitos. She also offers along explanation of herinstallation of ceramicdishes and figurines whosecomplex background —involving colonialism, therelationship between in-dividual and society, how
commodities are valuedand much more — is furth-er complicated when Val-dés’ mostly fluent Spanishtrips over words like“race,” “borders” and“commodity,” promptingfriendly and confused de-bate.
“Comfort?” offers IntiHernández, one of theCuban visitors. “Roots?”suggests another.
Hernández and 14 otherCuban artists and curatorsare in Miami for Dialoguesin Cuban Art, an exchangeproject organized by Miamicurator Elizabeth Cerejidoand sponsored by the JohnS. and James L. KnightFoundation and collectorJorge Pérez. Their visit,
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César Trasobares, second from left, shows Cuban artists a mural in Little Havana. Theartists were visiting Miami as part of the exchange project Dialogues in Cuban Art.
Cuban artists discover new worlds in Miami visitBY JORDAN [email protected]
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capital of the Cuban dias-pora.
“For me as a personfrom a country that needsto find a way to open up tothe international arena andwelcome all experiencesand opinions, it is verymeaningful,” Hernándezsays. “For me and for ev-erybody.”
Hernández, who haslived in the Netherlandsfor a decade, and others inthis group — many ofwhom have worked orstudied abroad — are farbetter acquainted with theworld outside Cuba thanthe vast majority of itsresidents. “Since I waslittle I wanted to know theworld,” says Glenda León,another Cuban artist. Yetwhile León has lived andstudied in Europe andtraveled several times toMiami, this trip —crammed with visits tostudios, museums, collec-tions, dinners at people’shomes and a ceaseless flowof formal and informal talk— is far more revealing.
Valdés, who is Cuban-American, was part of theDialogue project’s firstphase, which brought se-ven Cuban-American art-ists to Havana last May.She is familiar with hervisitors’ situation at home— which sparks a debate onthe phrase “live-work.” Areal estate catch phrase inMiami is a practical realityin Havana, where lack ofspace, money and com-mercial galleries meansmost artists work, displayand sell their art at home.“I dream of space to doinstallations,” León says.
But Valdés, whose studiois in an area filling withgalleries and artists fleeingthe commercialization inWynwood, sees the Cu-bans’ situation differently.“When gentrification hap-pens in Havana, they won’tbe as displaced as we are,”she says.
Next stop is the TheMargulies Collection inWynwood, where Cerejidohas paid $25 a head for aguided tour. The center-piece is a new exhibit ofworks by German artistAnselm Keifer, mostlymassive pieces like a pairof towering, rough con-crete structures, whichresemble some of the de-caying buildings in Hava-na. But the Cubans keepwandering off into thisartistic wonderland. LázaroSaavedra, a leading figurefrom Cuba’s politically andconceptually rebellious“’80s Generation,” pho-tographs pieces from oddangles: the shadows cast byan Isamu Noguchi sculp-ture, down a hollow pipe ina Richard Serra piece.
“I’m looking for a pointof view that’s out of theordinary,” he says.
Felipe Dulzaides wascaptivated by Susan Phi-lipsz’ installation Part FileScore, where blow-ups ofscores by Austrian compos-er Hanns Eisler are cov-ered by FBI reports onEisler, who fled the Nazisfor the United States andwas investigated for hiscommunist politics. ForDulzaides, the pieceechoes his own workinspired by his father, alsoFelipe Dulzaides, whoplayed and promoted jazzin Cuba when it was politi-cally suspect.
“You don’t escape thesystem,” Dulzaides says.“I’m working on the sameissues of music and misun-derstanding. There’s anemotional parallel in thesense of what artists gothrough. … It’s interestinghow societies overcomethose things and how im-portant it is to talk aboutthem.”
The possibility of suchmoments is what inspiredCerejido to create the Dia-logues project two yearsago. While she was worriedabout whether the projectstill mattered amid thegrowing flood of inter-action with Cuba, Cere-jidos has been surprised
and gratified at her guests’reactions to a piece bylegendary Cuban-Amer-ican avant-garde artist AnaMendieta, nestled in theroots of a ceiba tree inLittle Havana; or theirwonder at the wealth ofuncensored history in the
Cuban Heritage Collectionat the University of Miami.
“They were amazed thata neutral space like thatexists in the diaspora,”says Cerejidos, standing atthe coffee counter of ElPalacio de Los Jugos onWest Flagler Street, a hom-ey exile landmark she hasvisited since she was alittle girl and where she hasbrought the artists forlunch. She is smiling, buther eyes are bright withmoisture. “I could cryabout it. It reinforced tome that this is still mea-ningful. I was asking my-self ‘Are these things stillrelevant? Yes, they are’.”
Sitting in El Palacio’sbustling outdoor patio,echoing with Cuban-ac-
cented Spanish, Saavedrais confronting some of thepersonal angles of this trip.His cousin, who recentlymade the dangerous trekfrom Cuba through Cen-tral America to Miami, hasmet him here for lunch.Next their group goes tothe studio of José Bedia,possibly Miami’s mostfamous exile artist, and afriend from Saavedra’sgeneration whom hehasn’t seen in over 20years. Asked why he didn’talso leave, Saavedrashrugs.
“They decided to leave,”he says. “I didn’t decide tostay. What am I going totell you? There are nowords for this — there’stoo much emotion.”
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If You GoWhat: Dialogues in CubanArt symposium
When: Various timesThursday and Friday
Where: Pérez Art MuseumMiami, 1103 Biscayne Blvd.,Miami
Info: Free with museumadmission; detailspamm.org or 305-375-3000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Clockwise, from top left:Cuban artist LázaroSaavedra photographs theRichard Serra sculpture‘Pole and Plate’ at theMargulies Collection at theWarehouse in Miami. Miamiartist and curator ElizabethCerejido, at the site of anAna Mendieta work in LittleHavana, conceived andorganized the Dialogues inCuban Art project. Cubanartists Felipe Dulzaides, left,and Yornel Martínez talkwith Miami artist JuanaValdés in her studio. ArtistRubén Torres Llorca,second from right, withAylet Ojeda, curator at theCuban National Museum ofArts, and artist FelipeDulzaidez, Ana Clara Silva,and group coordinator,Lazaro Saavedra and IntiHernandez, left, bacl, duringa visit to Ruben's studio inCoral Gables.
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lot of new topics,” saidLeila Cobo, Billboard’sexecutive director of Latincontent and programming.“It’s a different world fromwhat it was, even one yearago. People are still lookingfor great music, but tech-nology has changed whatwe listen to and how welisten to it.”
The 27th edition of theconference, which beganMonday and finishesThursday with the Bill-board Latin Music Awards,mirrors the changing in-dustry, Cobo says.
‘NEW SOURCES’“Radio has long been the
source of discovery for newmusic, and though it still is,there are many new sourc-es,” Cobo says. “Streaminghas become a big deal andit’s growing stronger, a lotmore people are streamingmusic as opposed to buy-ing.”
Cobo says digital dis-tribution and streamingservices like Spotify arehelping to change thegame. “It’s not just randomplaylists put together byfans anymore,” Cobo says.“There are playlists gener-ated by the site for its us-ers, which are curatedmusic charts, so, there’sother avenues of discoverywhich weren’t there be-fore.”
Michael Huppe, a con-ference panelist and CEO
of Sound Exchange, anindependent nonprofitcollective managementorganization that gathersand distributes digitalperformance royalties tofeatured artists and copy-right holders and is spon-soring this year’s event,agrees with Cobo.
“What’s most excitingabout the music industryright now is that there’s anunbelievable explosion, notonly of the places to getmusic, but of the type ofmusic available,” Huppesays.
“There’s no limit to thetype of music you can find.… What people listened tobefore was dictated bylocal radio, but now, not somuch.”
The conference alsoreflects Latin music’s ex-pansion beyond pop, fea-turing artists in a variety ofgenres, particularly reggae-ton.
“There’s starting to be ablurring of the lines, andI’d like to bring moremainstream people to theconference,” Cobo says.
“It’s a vibrant, devel-oping, growing genre. …Many people are unawareof what a big businessLatin music is. It’s nowpart of the fabric of musicin this country.”
She cites the hit Broad-way musical Hamilton,created by Lin-ManuelMiranda, who is of PuertoRican descent, and moreLatin music in films andTV shows — as well asonline services such asVEVO, which regularly
features Latin artists on itshomepage.
“More than a musicalphenomenon to me, I thinkit’s a demographic shift,”Cobo says. “Latinos makeup such a large portion ofthe population, it’s impos-sible not to see the cultureseeping in, and music, ofcourse, is a big passionpoint.”
BIG NUMBERSThat passion can trans-
late into big numbers.According to Comscore, aninternet analytics and mar-keting data agency, iHear-tRadio, an online radioservice, reaches 38 millionHispanics, while Pandora,another online radio ser-vice, reaches 15 million
Hispanicsmonthly.
“Latinmusic is oneof the musicindustry’sfastest grow-ing seg-ments,”Huppe says.
“At SoundExchange weprocess royalties for digitalradio services, many ofwhich have reported a 25percent increase in Latinolistenership.” In 2015,SoundExchange paid ap-proximately $56 million inroyalties to Latino artistsand copyright holders.
“It’s exciting, and we’remaking an ever-growingeffort to engage with ourLatino constituency,there’s no doubt it’s anincredibly important seg-ment.”
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