The popular orchestra Los Van Van It will celebrate a new anniversary of the birth of its founder on August 2. Juan Formell He would turn 83 on that date and the group has conceived several actions for the day of his birth.
The so -called “Cuban Music Train” will make the release of the video clip of “Come, give me a hug”, a simple one that is included in the disc Van Van modethe most recent record production of the orchestra.
The issue has not been chosen at random. In publications on social networks of the Samuel Formell group, director of Los Van Van, he considered that all Cubans need a hug, and this video and theme are a call to unity among Cubans wherever they are.
“Come, give me a hug,” played by Mandy Cantero, is a subject of the authorship of Jorge Leliebre, a flutist of the orchestra since 1995 and author of other singles such as “guilty of nothing”, “Life legacy” and “perfectly imperfect.”
The audiovisual realization of this video clip comes from the hand of Alejandro Valera, one of the directors who has worked the most with the renowned group.
With other successful audiovisuals to her credit, such as “My Friend”, “Fashion” and “Everything ended”, the return of the Valera-Los Van Van Van Van increases expectations on this premiere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1qtg8if6ym
The legacy in letters
Meanwhile, Cuban Ibelis, one of the most fervent fans of the orchestra and part of the group of production of the group, will present its book on August 2 With Formell … in the sky you also dance.
It is a text born from the personal experience of its author as Santiago, fervent lover of Cuban music and completely delivered to the legacy of the Van Van.
From the music of the orchestra, Ibelis has highlighted it as a feeling that has accompanied her throughout her life, has saved her soul in the most difficult circumstances and has wrapped her in the happiest moments.
In the thanks of the book – which was encouraged and accompanied by the Cuban musical researcher Rosa Marquetti – Ibelis defines the energy and creativity of the orchestra as its contant source of inspiration.
The text is the reflection of the impact that Formell’s work has left in thousands of Cubans in the already more than five generations that have been born and grown with the train … as part of the soundtrack of their lives.
Van van you live and dance
On Saturday night, August 2, the date of the birth of its founder, Los Van Van will return to Yarini, which has already become one of its usual scenarios in Havana.
The San Isidro restaurant will host the group in a concert that will have all the symbolism of celebrating the life of Juan Formell.
Yarini, who was also one of the locations of the video clip of “Come, give me a hug”, will thus serve the closure of the commemorations for the 83 years of who is considered with all justice as one of the essential figures of Cuban popular music.
