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Five Cubans go to the Grammys at the Crypto Arena in Los Angeles

Cimafunk, Camila Cabello, Paquito D'Rivera, Arturo Sandoval and Arturo O'Farrill could win this Sunday an award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States.

Arturo Sandoval/Cimafunk © Facebook/Arturo Sandoval/Daniel H. Arévalo
Arturo Sandoval/Cimafunk Photo © Facebook/Arturo Sandoval/Daniel H. Arévalo

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Five cuban artists They are going this Sunday for the Grammy at the ceremony that will take place at the renowned Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California.

Cimafunk, Camila Cabello, Paquito D'Rivera, Arturo Sandoval and Arturo O'Farrill they could win a Grammy in this 65th edition of the awards presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States.

“Good morning my brothers and sisters; Believe it or not, I'm a little nervous about the Grammys today; At my age, winning means more than when I was young; Please pray that I win,” he commented on Facebook this Sunday Arturo Sandoval.<

The day before Arturo O'Farrill said in his Facebook that “this week we are celebrating our Grammy nomination for ‘Fandango on the Wall in New York’.”

Also the musician Paquito D'Rivera spread a story in his Instagram in which he remembers that he has won five Grammys in the 15 times he has been nominated, in addition to another nine Latin Grammys in 13 nominations.

The food, album by the self-taught singer and composer Cimafunk, is nominated in the category Best Latin or Alternative Rock Album. In a video Regarding the nominees, the Cuban musician said that he was super happy and happy with this news.

He hit “Bam Bam” of the Cuban Camila Cabello and the British Ed Sheeran, released in March 2022, earned both of them being included in the category Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.

Capture Instagram/ Paquito D'Rivera

The veteran Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval will go for his tenth Grammy by being nominated in the section Best Latin Jazz Album for his album Rhythm & Soul.

The musician of Cuban origin Arturo O'Farrill repeats for the third consecutive year on the list of nominees in that same category, this time with the album Fandango At The Wall In New York together with his band The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, together with The Congra Patria Son Jarocho Collective.

If he wins in this edition, it would be the sixth Grammy that O'Farrill has taken home and the fourth as Best Latin Jazz Album.

The Cuban clarinetist and saxophonist, winner of 15 Grammys, Paquito D'Rivera is also among the nominees for Best Instrumental Composition for "African Tales", an original work he composed for musicians Tasha Warren and Dave Eggar.

Another of the Cubans who sees his work as a composer rewarded in these Academy nominations is Lenier Mesa, since Marc Anthony's album Pa'llá I'm going, for which he wrote several songs, is nominated in the category Best Latin Tropical Album.

Likewise, the Cuban musician José Antonio Méndez Padrón and the Liceo Orchestra of Havana are linked to the nomination of the German composer Christoph Franke in the section Producer of the Year, by Mozart and Mambo: Cuban Dances, a classical music production in which, in addition to the Cuban artists, the American Sarah Willis participates.

So far the ceremony will be broadcast on the CBS television network and on the Paramount+ streaming platform. The presenters and artists invited to the awards gala will be announced soon.

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