The legendary Cuban group Los Van Van returns to New York this weekend to close a tour of the United States with his new female voice, in which his followers will be able to enjoy his great successes and will have an advance of his new project, in the Which revive themes of the seventies and eighties. The album "Los Van Van is La Patria", will be released next December, coinciding with the anniversary of the founding of the mythical group, considered the dance orchestra par excellence and one of the main interpreters of Afro-Caribbean music, told Efe Director, drums and timbales, Samuel Formell. The artist indicated that they already promote the album "Amiga mía", composed by his father and founder of the band, Juan Formell (1942-2014), one of the themes of the eighties rescued from the famous orchestra, which began his American tour The past 5 of August in Miami and that culminates the 26 of August in the Big Apple. "It's a familiar song but not the version we're doing (on the new album). My father and I agreed that it was important to recover the songs of the seventies and eighties, which the young people now do not know and this song is An example, "explained Formell, who added that" has been a resounding success "in this tour.
Juan Formell's second track will include the unpublished "Through My Songs" in which his followers will listen to him singing, as happened on the previous album, and will also include compositions by Samuel and his brother, the drummer Juan Carlos Formell, among other authors. Samuel Formell explained that the name "Los Van Van is La Patria" came from a phrase they encountered in a street when they were going to a concert in their country, which was captured by the photographer who accompanied them. "Looking at the photo we said 'may be the title of the album with the same photograph' I think it was decided by a Cuban on the street and if it is Cuban it is because we are all the country Van Van also represents that country through music "He said. The presentation in the Bronx also has the peculiarity that those who attend the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts will meet their new female voice, Vanessa Formell, who joined his brothers Samuel and Juan Carlos, after the departure of singer Yenisel Valdés . Although Vanessa has performed with the group both in Cuba and in other countries and recorded "Un tumbao 'for two" for the album "Arrasando", under the direction of her father, it is the first tour that she does with " Cuban music "as they are also known.
"It's very special, she's very happy and she brings the Formell family in. She works well on the stage, in the choir, she's very graceful, very sure of her, we're very happy with that," he said. On this occasion they will have as special guest, as well as in the Friday concert in Puerto Rico, Pedro Calvo, who was the singer during the first forty years of the orchestra, and the voice behind hits such as "Sandunguera", "El negro Is cooking, "" Havana can not stand it anymore, "or" This love that dies, "among others. "For him, it is to feel back in his great times with the orchestra, who knows him. Every time we have the opportunity to share with him, for us it is a happiness and we enjoy it," said the director.
