Ulises Beato, Director, Conjunto Guantanamo
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Location | DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | Cuban-American Ulises Beato was born in New York City's Washington Heights area in 1966 and relocated with his family to Miami, Florida in early 1973. For the next 21 years he was raised within the freshly exiled Cuban community that had largely been gathering there since 1960. Early on, Ulises absorbed the traditional Cuban music, culture and Afro-Cuban religious practices of his parents and extended family. Young Ulises was transfixed the first time he attended a sacred "toque de santos" or "a playing for the saints". Though only eight years old at the time, he remembered the instruments and music he heard and saw for the first time at his godfathers house in the 1970s with their rustic appearance and a bewildering polyrhythm unlike anything he'd ever heard. This experience left an indelible mark on Ulises helping shape his musical inclinations throughout his life. For his ninth birthday, an aunt gave him a 12 inch LP of various traditional sacred "toques" and for a time he became obsessed with this music and it was then that he started to internalize these complex folkloric rhythms of his parent's native Cuba. -- https://linktr.ee/ctoguantanamo |
| Interests | Cuban Culture and music. |