Carlos Vives

Carlos Alberto Vives Restrepo (Santa Marta, August 7, 1961) is a Colombian singer-songwriter, record producer, philanthropist and actor, pioneer and creator of a new sound from traditional genres of the Colombian music like cumbia and vallenato. He has won two Grammy Awards and fifteen Latin Grammy Awards.

With 17 gramophones in his possession, he was the first Colombian to be awarded a Grammy Award from the American Recording Academy. He received the Billboard Hall of Fame Award and was inducted into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame, as well as receiving the Icon Award at the Musa Awards. In Spain, he won the Ondas award and twice the Amigo Award, delivered by the Principality of Asturias.

Biography

1980s

He moves to Bogotá and studies Advertising and specializes in television production at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University.

In 1982 he played the role of Julián in the telenovela Tiempo sin huella, about a romantic adolescent dreamer who seeks to make his way as an artist. With this role he became known nationally. During that same year he acted in the David Copperfield mini-series in which he played the leading role. He shared the screen with Sofía Morales, Rebeca López and Tuty Amaya, he also does television commercials.

The following year he had the opportunity to be in a children's television series called Little Giants, thanks to the invitation of director Tony Navia. His role was that of Guineo, a kind of comical and cartoonish Tarzan always surrounded by a large number of children. He participated in jungle adventures, with ambitious missionaries and expeditionaries. He did everything on that show from singing, dancing, acting, creating plots and stories and even learning small screen techniques. He shared moments with Manuel Busquets, Luis Fernando Ardila, Fernando Garavito, & # 34; El Chato & # 34; Latorre Junior, Mile and a group of adolescent actors led by the daughters of Cristopher and Felipe Santos. He also performed with Juan Sebastián Aragón, Carolina Sabino, Julieta García, Carolina Cuervo, Fredy López, Roberto Cano, Gonzalo Escobar, Alejandro Martínez, Tulio Zuloaga and Ana María Orozco.

Later, in 1984, he acted in the soap opera El Faraón, where he played Capitolino Rojas. He acted alongside Nelly Moreno, Lucero Gómez and Clemencia de Santos, under the direction of Jaime Santos. The antagonist of the story was Jorge Emilio Salazar. His next project was the 1985 telenovela Tuyo es mi corazón, playing Carlos Sánchez. He shared the spotlight with Amparo Grisales, along with Jimmie Bernal, Guillermo Gálvez and Maltilde Suescún.

In 1986 he had his third leading role, as Javier Ramírez in the telenovela Gallito Ramírez. The character is a small-town and dreamy boy, who spends his days pursuing his dream of being a boxer. He shared the leading role with the Colombian Margarita Rosa de Francisco, who was going to be his wife in 1988. With this role, Vives became known internationally, especially in Puerto Rico and the United States. That year he also recorded his first musical album, titled Por fuera y por dentro and produced by the Cuban Ricardo Acosta.

Concert by Carlos Vives and the accordioner Egidio Cuadrado.

The following year he acted in the Puerto Rican telenovela Tormento, with the role of César Augusto Caballero, along with Chayanne and under the direction of the Venezuelan Román Chalbaud. In that same year, he also made an album called You will not be able to escape from me, produced together with the Cuban Jorge Luis Piloto and this allowed him to have recognitions such as being nominated for the Lo Nuestro Awards in 1987 as Revelation Artist., also won the "Stereo Tempo Award" in Puerto Rico in 1988 and the "Too Much Awards" Miami, Florida (USA) in 1988, this latest award is one of the most important awards in the world of music. In 1988 he played the role of Arnaldo Vásquez in the telenovela La otra, along with Claribel Medina and Giselle Blondet, directed by Martin Lutrec. His song & # 34; You will not be able to escape from me & # 34; , belonging to his second album, was the theme song for the soap opera. That same year he appeared in the program of Julio Enrique Sánchez Vanegas and Julio Sánchez Cristo called Espectaculares JES, for this presentation he sang songs such as You will not be able to escape from me, I don't want to go so crazy, Stay here and You and me.

In 1989, he acted in the miniseries La conciencia de Lucía that deals with the story of a plastic surgeon named Alberto who is married to Lucía, played by Giselle Blondet. Upon her return to Colombia she acted in the telenovela R.T.I. called LP loca pasión, in which he personified Julio Sanmiguel or "Sammy", a young man who sought to have the door of popularity as a rock musician in Spanish who during the course of of the telenovela finds that opportunity elusive. He shares the limelight with Marcela Agudelo and Juan Carlos Arango. For that same year he made his third album produced together with the Italian-Venezuelan Pablo Manavello, called Al centro de la ciudad .

1990s

In 1990, he separated from Margarita Rosa de Francisco and met Herlinda Gómez, who was to be his second wife and mother of his two children. That same year he made a telenovela in Puerto Rico called Aventurera where his leading role was that of Juan Carlos Santander, a Colombian in Puerto Rico who develops successful businesses and is a millionaire, cynical, bohemian and irreverent. to scandalize all the characters around him. Sully Díaz was the Adventurera, a wife sacrificed by the Santander family, who oppressed her until, thanks to her attention and the weakening of her husband's family, she managed to win back her beloved and get a great fortune. The actor Osvaldo Ríos was also in the cast, while the direction was in charge of Dim Sallas. The telenovela was broadcast on channel 4 of San Juan and WAPA-TV. The theme "Adventurous" He was in the telenovela and is on his album Al centro de la ciudad.

Carlos Vives in 2006.

The following year he returned to Colombia to make a television musical on Caracol Televisión, about the life and work of the famous vallenato composer Rafael Escalona. In the series, titled Escalona , he shared the cast with Florina Lemaitre, Rodrigo Obregón, Judy Henríquez, Juan Carlos Arango and Álvaro Araújo Castro, under the direction of Sergio Cabrera. The role of Vives earned him the Simón Bolívar award for best actor of that year. The series and its soundtrack led him to make the album Escalona: a song to life, touring various stages in Latin America.

That same year, once again in Puerto Rico, he made an American and Italian-Dominican telenovela produced in Puerto Rico and Miami (United States) for the American Spanish-language network Telemundo, called Cadena braga. His role was the character of José Antonio. Here it was a subject who was obsessed with being a fair, rational and balanced man. He was measured, serene and knew how to jump over the pitfalls in his path. He shared credits with the actresses Carmen Carrasco and Mara Croatto, with the production of Alfonso Rodríguez.

Later, in 1992, he made the second part of his first album Escalona: a song to life, called Escalona ''Volume 2' '. In that same year, he played the journalist José Antonio Samper Pupo in the Colombian film La estrategia del snail, which was shown on December 25 of that same year until mid-1993, with a cast that included Fausto Cabrera, Frank Ramírez, Florina Lemaitre, Víctor Mallarino, Humberto Dorado, Delfina Guido, Vicky Hernández, Luis Fernando Múnera, Gustavo Angarita and Salvo Basile. The tape was directed by Sergio Cabrera.

Also that same year, she made her last performance in the telenovela La Mujer Doble together with the Venezuelan actress Ruddy Rodríguez. The story is carried out by a woman named Carmita Figueroa, who is the victim of a witch who, through a spell, transforms her personality turning her into a perverse woman, while Mateo hid his great love, he must risk his own life to recover that woman who loved him so much. loves. She shared a cast with Florina Lemaitre, her brother Guillermo Vives and Moisés Angulo, directed by Sergio Cabrera.

During that time, he also recorded the album Clásicos de la provincia, a series of traditional songs about stories from his land that he brought to life with a sound, style and revolutionary arrangements that made You live a true international event. In America and Europe, Vives captivated crowds with the rhythm of his album, with which he broke his own sales record (triple gold record and triple platinum record in 1993 and 1995) that he held with the soundtrack of Escalona and managed to put songs by vallenato minstrels such as Juancho Polo Valencia, Emiliano Zuleta, Luis Enrique Martínez, and Carlos Huertas Gómez, among others, at the top of the pop charts.

Carlos Vives on the recording of one of his musical videos.

That same year he did a night show on television called La Tele. The show was an amalgamation of many topics and interests such as criticism, music, reporting, and news, underscored by a use of satire and humor. The program was successful and he shared the cast with Martín de Francisco and Santiago Moure. It became a milestone on Colombian television until it ended in 1995.

In 1995, Vives published the album La tierra del olvido in the company of his band La Provincia, produced by Richard Blair and recorded in Bogotá. This album was the sixth record work of the Colombian singer and his second with Sonolux. The album was a massive success and includes the now classics "La tierra del olvido" and "Pa' Mayté", as well as new versions of traditional themes such as "Rosa" and "The crowned goddess". La tierra del olvido was also the first album released by Vives under his own local Gaira Música record label, a label he created under the Sonolux division.

Then Tengo fe appeared, a gold and multi-platinum record in 1997. On October 19, 1999, Vives published El amor de mi tierra, a work that obtained albums by gold and platinum in the United States. In 2000 double platinum disc in Colombia, and triple platinum disc in Spain in September 2000. From this album the song "Fruta fresca" it stayed at the top of Billboard Magazine between 1999 and 2000.

2000s

In 2001 he made the album Déjame entrar, produced in Miami, Florida by Emilio Estefan, Jr. and co-produced by Sebastián Krys, Andrés Castro and the artist himself, thus winning a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album on February 27, 2002 and three Latin Grammys for Best Contemporary Tropical Album on September 18, 2002. The most successful songs were Déjame entrar, "Amor latino&# 34;, "New Moon" and "I want to see you smile".

In his 2004 album called El rock de mi pueblo, Vives includes electric guitars, basses and rock drums in his interpretation of vallenato and traditional rhythms, an innovative fusion, which in turn claimed popular lyrics. All this and more led the album El rock de mi pueblo to the sixth installment of the Latin Grammy Awards. The musical work was the winner of the Best Contemporary Tropical Album award. The song Como tú was also nominated for Best Tropical Song on November 3, 2005.

Carlos Vives also gave space to children's music. He took Rafael Pombo's poems to the musical level, achieving great alliances and sales that led him with Pombo Musical , to the Latin Grammy Awards in 2009, winning in the Contemporary Album category for Best Children's Album.

Between 2009 and 2010 he returned to his roots and presented a masterpiece with Clásicos De La Provincia II in alliance with Almacenes Éxito, the most important supermarket chain in Colombia, accumulating 15 platinum records for more than 200 thousand copies sold.

To all these recognitions are added the prizes awarded by Shock Magazine, the most important publication in Colombia specialized in music.

Vives has been an artist committed to children and society, he was a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, participated in the Paz Sin Fronteras concert, and was invited to the 2012 United States Army Continuing Promise Mission. In 2012 Carlos Vives begins a new era, television and music are the perfect combination for Samario, who, like the great idols of the world, manages to reinvent himself based on his quality, experience and visionary spirit. He was chosen as the coach of the Canal Caracol contest program, La Voz Colombia and was co-coach of the singer Malú in this same production but in a Spanish version.

2013–2015: Deep Heart and its Rebirth

In 2013 he was born again, returning with his album called Corazón profundo through the record label Sony Music with whom he was away for more than 20 years when he made the album Escalona ' 'Volume 2''. The album Corazón Profundo obtained during that year 5 nominations for the Latin Grammy Awards in 2013 with 3 gramophones obtained and being nominated for the Grammy Awards in 2014 for best traditional tropical Latin album, 5 nominations for Lo Nuestro Awards and 2nd Latin Billboard Awards. The first 4 singles from this record work were number 1 in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Mexico, among other countries, and also being a gold, platinum and diamond record. The singles “Volví a nacer”, “Como le gusta a tu cuerpo” and “Bailar contigo” reached the No. 1 position on the Billboard Latin chart in the United States and became international anthems.

Carlos Lives in an Event 40 Bogotá.

Carlos Vives received the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government in 2014 and was honored with the BMI President's Award for Latin Music for his compositions in 2013. Also recently at the Viña del Mar Festival he obtained all prizes; gold and silver torches, plus gold and silver seagulls for his masterful spectacle in February of this year.

In mid-2014, Carlos Vives released Más corazón profundo and repeated the feat of his previous album, this time with even greater force by breaking records in physical and digital sales in Colombia. Within hours of its release, the album sold more than 40,000 units, breaking the record that "El Samario" established himself with his first version of the album "Corazón Profundo" and selling more than all other artists' records in the country combined during this same period of time. The new production includes “El Mar De Sus Ojos” with Chocquibtown and “Cuando Nos Volvamos Encontrar” with Marc Anthony. With this album he won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album in 2016 and two Latin Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Tropical Album and Best Tropical Song in 2014.

Vives has been an artist committed to childhood and society. He was a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, participated in the PEACE WITHOUT BORDERS concert and has now been chosen by USAID (United States Agency for International Development) as an ambassador for ethnic communities to promote inclusion and their self-recognition.Vives has always publicly expressed his affinity for Afro-descendant and indigenous culture and this is reflected in his musical productions and video clips. Carlos Vives magnified the country's cultural legacy, opened the doors to new markets for several generations of Colombian talents and a new current of local music with a series of musicians who today are the face of Colombia in the world.

Carlos interviewed by Ana María Canseco.

In 2015 he collaborated with Soledad Pastorutti on the song "Give me a smile" and also with Wisin with Daddy Yankee on the song "Nota de Amor" which has come to be placed on some popularity lists such as Monitor Latino in Colombia. On July 31, the video of the Land of Oblivion (2015) premieres with the collaborations of Fanny Lu, Fonseca, Maluma, Andrea Echeverri, Cholo Valderrama as well as groups such as the Coral Group and Herencia de Timbiquí on its page from VEVO. On August 13, she performs the concert of her & # 34; Vives y la Amigos de ella & # 34; of his tour "Mas Corazón Profundo Tour" at the El Campín Stadium in Bogotá before 42,000 people with guests such as Puerto Ricans Wisin, Marc Anthony and Daddy Yankee, Brazilian Michel Telo and the Colombians Chocquibtown, Gusi, Fanny Lu and Maluma.

2016-2018: La Bicicleta and album "Vives"

Receives the Lo Nuestro Award for excellence on February 18, 2016, appearing at said awards with Juanes, Fonseca, Jorge Celedon, Silvestre Dangond, Chocquibtown, J Balvin and Maluma with the special participation of former soccer players Carlos Valderrama, Juan Pablo Ángel, Faryd Mondragon and Mario Yepes, in addition to being presented by former Miss Universe Paulina Vega.

On May 27, 2016, he released the single La bicicleta, in a duet with Shakira. The video for the song was filmed in Colombia in each of their hometowns. The song debuted at number one on the Billboard's Latin Airplay chart in United States and number four on the Hot Latin Songs chart. It also reached a billion views on YouTube.

On July 28, 2017, he presents Robarte un beso, together with Yatra, reaching the top positions in the world charts and exceeding one billion views on his VEVO channel on YouTube. She would perform at the 2018 Viña del Mar Festival in Chile, bringing ChocQuibTown, Sebastián Yatra and Wisin as surprises. He would do the song for the Vallenato Festival titled El Sombrero de Alejo, in which he would sing along with several Colombian vallenato icons such as Poncho Zuleta, Felipe Peláez, Peter Manjarrés, Jorge Oñate, Iván Villazón, Jorge Celedón Silvestre Dangond and Martin Elias.

2020-Present: Cumbiana I and II, Encanto and The Bass Club

Discography

Pop and ballad period

• 1986: Outside and inside
• 1987: You can't escape me.
• 1989: To the city center

Vallenato period and ethnic fusion

• 1991: Staircase: a song to life
• 1992: Step ''Volumen 2'
• 1993: Classics of the province
• 1995: The land of oblivion
• 1997: I have faith
• 1999: The love of my land
• 2001: Let me in.
• 2004: The rock of my village
• 2009: Classics of province II
• 2013: Deep heart
• 2014: Deep heart
• 2017: Lives
• 2020: Cumbiana
• 2021: Masters in Parranda
• 2022: Cumbiana II
• 2023: Scalona had never been recorded like this.

Live Albums

• 2015: Deepest Heart Live Tour from the Bahia de Santa Marta
• 2016: More friends from El Campín stadium in Bogotá

Compilations

• 1994: 20 collection
• 1999: 20th Anniversary
• 2000: 15 successes
• 2002: Gold Collection
• 2002: Sing the classics of the valley
• 2005: Romantic
• 2008: 10 collection

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Billboard Awards

Grammy Awards

Latin Grammy Awards

Our Land Awards

World Music Awards