Vicente Rojas - A Las 2 A.M. - Areito LD-3933 Cuban Disco/Funk

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Vicente Rojas - A Las 2 A.M. - Areito LD-3933 Cuban Disco/Funk

Vicente Rojas - A Las 2 A.M. - Areito LD-3933. Two clean labels. VG/VG(-).

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"Vicente Juan Rojas Salermo was born in 1951 in Gibara, a town on the north coast in eastern Cuba.

At the age of twelve he received the first violin, solfege and theory classes at the music school of his native town, with

teachers Pedro Gómez and Juan Angulo.

At the age of fourteen he was awarded a scholarship to study at the National School of Arts in Cubanacán, Havana,

after undergoing rigorous vocational tests.

There he studied violin and other theoretical subjects of music,

composed his first songs and made his first musical arrangements.

In 1970 he began his professional life as the first violinist of Revé, one of the most popular Cuban orchestras, with

which he performed various national and international tours, as well as numerous presentations on radio, television, cabarets,

nightclubs, carnivals, etc., And from where he released his first compositions and musical arrangements.

In 1973, he started working as a music producer at EGREM (Recordings and Music Editions Company of Cuba), and

made successful productions of the most popular performers of the moment, soon becoming one of the

most recognized and requested producers and arrangers.

Their music, sung as instrumental, spread quickly in all the Cuban radio stations with an astonishing

welcome for such a young artist.

In particular, Radio Encyclopedia, the prestigious national radio station that

disseminates instrumental

music

in Cuba, transmitted widely and with total acceptance by the public the majority of its creations.

Two of

those instrumental themes were, for many years, the presentation music of channels 2 and 6 of

Cuban

television

, the only ones that existed at that time.

From 1975 he began to participate in important national and international events, invited as a jury member

alongside great and renowned figures of music, and also as arranger and songwriter who

performed at those events.

In 1978 he began to compose with the Cuban author Alberto Vera, member of the legendary "Piloto y Vera" binomial, and make

that union one of the richest and most significant of the time by the number of famous songs that bequeathed to the

cultural island.

The themes that they produced then were interpreted by the most famous singers of the moment, and

they launched to the fame to young artists who began their careers in those days.

Most of the successes composed by

the duo Rojas (music) and Vera (letra) are part of one of the richest stages in the production of valuable musical numbers

that quickly spread and integrated into the memory of Cuban popular music, With themes in which the

unique

quality

of the melody was accompanied by lyrics that had, in addition to beautiful messages, an incredible power of

communication.

In 1979 he began to work as an advisor to the Cuban Radio and Television Institute (ICRT), and in

1980 he was in charge of the musical production of a special disc release that EGREM made with several artists

to honor the Day Of Mothers, and for which he composed some songs that became famous and remembered

songs like Siempre es igual, by Mirtha Medina and Alfredo Rodríguez, The reason to live, duet of Beatriz Márquez and Sergio

Farías,

Di, what are we? , With Sergio Farías, for then live, instrumental theme played by trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, and

Son ganas de ti, song of the group Los Dan, among others.

By then his music was heard and became famous in the

voices of the country's most popular singers.

In 1981 he created and directed the "Rafael Somavilla" Music Production Center of the ICRT, where the

young singing singers of the famous TV program "Todo el mundo sing"

were professionally trained

.

In 1985, next to Ariel Fontana, who put text to many of its melodies, composes several musical numbers that

quickly

destroy

with total success in the mass media.

Encouraged by Fontana and Beatriz Márquez, she decides to sing her own

songs, and chooses, for the first time, the titled

"Let's Get Started", making a duet with Beatriz herself.

In that same year he ventured into the realization of his first music videos.

The video clip he produces of the song

"Me quedé con Ganas" is remembered as the first production of that genre that marks a radical change in the way of

producing the music videos in the national scope, impelling a new way of making talented, original , Fresh and fluid

for the music clips

that until then were transmitted in the television channels of his native country.

This opens the doors to projects of

artistic quality with which it obtains more reputation and prestige.

That first video clip, written and directed by the

Cuban

filmmakers

Ada Garcia and Armando Álvarez, make it reach unlimited popularity and recognition that make it

the pioneer of video clips in Cuba, a category that is still being awarded today By the connoisseurs of the environment

In 1992 he emigrated to Spain, where he continued composing songs, performing record productions and musical arrangements

for Cuban and Spanish singers.

In December of 1994 he traveled to the United States of America and since then he lives in Miami, where besides being dedicated to

the musical production in his own study of recordings, continues presenting in programs of radio, television and

musical events, national and international."

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Pre-revolution labels like Panart, Puchito,Seeco, Duarte,Velvet Records and others from the 1950's as well as the post-revolution 1960's EGREM records were pressed using thick vinyl and generally will sound better than the 1970's and later Areito recordings. The pre-revolution records will often play better than they look.

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EX = Excellent: The record has some signs of being played but there is very little lessening in sound quality. The cover and packaging may have slight wear and/or small creasing. EX(-) is somewhere between VG and EX. A record with an EX(+) grade can be described as better than EX but not quite Near Mint.

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GOOD: The record has been played so much that the sound quality has noticeably deteriorated and a lot of surface noise can be heard. The cover and contents suffer from folding, scuffing of edges, ring wear, spine splits, discolouration, etc. 

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Bad: The record is unplayable and may be broken. This type of record is used only as a collection filler and I will only sell such a record if it is extremely rare to obtain.

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