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Rodrigo Cuevas, 2023 National Current Music Award, presents his show 'La Romería' at the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium.
The new show, 'La Romería', is nourished by the songs that make up the album, 'Manual de Romería' produced by the genius of the hat Eduardo Cabra and Rodrigo himself, and from which three previews have been extracted so far: ' More animal', 'Casares' and 'How ye?!' In addition to practically all of the songs from the new LP, 'La Romería' also features some of the great songs from his previous work such as “Arboleda bien plantada” or “Rambalín”, an authentic standard that does poetic LGTBIQ justice where real justice was left. absent. 'La Romería' is fueled by humor, social criticism, irony, intelligent denunciation and the trademark sensuality of the house, by the naturalized use of Asturian and Spanish as vehicular languages, and seasoned with a staging that breaks with the preceding imagery on stage and in the costumes.
The energy, emotion and dedication of Rodrigo Cuevas orbit now, after these brilliant years, facing the double new challenge that presenting a new tour and a new album represents in his career, this time with a much more global vision if possible: from the soil of Piloña, Asturies and the northwest of the peninsula, towards the world as a whole.
For the pre-production of the album, Eduardo Cabra took his particular intensive course in Asturian rural life with adaptation to the humidity and cold and immersion in the culture and music of Asturies, León and Zamora. As a culmination of this interstellar clash between both human beings of extraordinary light and creativity, Rodrigo recorded the entire album in January in La Casa del Sombrero, Cabra's studios in Puerto Rico. We can say that they have given birth to a dazzling, beautiful, warm, dancing and honest creature.
The jury of the 2023 National Prize for Current Music awarded this award to Rodrigo Cuevas. This award, granted annually by the Ministry of Culture and Sports.
The jury distinguished the artist with this recognition "for the uniqueness of his work with a transcendent proposal that unites traditional folk music and contemporary popular music." The jury also valued that “his artistic project provides a strong commitment to diversity” and highlighted “the intensity of his live music and his highly personal imagery.”
Biography
Rodrigo Cuevas (Oviedo 1985) is a multidisciplinary artist: singer, composer, accordionist and percussionist. He studied piano and tuba at the Oviedo Conservatory and Sonology at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) in Barcelona. Also interested in world music and the disciplines of cabaret and circus, his artistic revelation occurred during his stay in a small village in the interior of Galicia, where he came into contact with the purest traditional music thanks to the local tambourines. .
In 2012 she published her first solo album: Yo soy la maga, an album in which electronica and traditional music merged in a disco catharsis. He then created the Dolorosa Compañía, a provocative psychedelic festival duo with which he traveled for three years until the premiere of his first solo show: Electrocuplé, with which he toured the Spanish underground. At the beginning of 2016 he published the EP Prince of Verdiciu, with the Aris Música label, which was the turning point in his career, going from performing in venues for ten people to a tour with more than 100 performances throughout the peninsula. A year later he published his third album, a new EP tribute to the Asturian artist Tino Casal.
His second show, El Mundo Por Montera, consolidated the previous success and received the Audience Award at the Huesca Theater Fair, as well as the attention of the national media. In 2018 he participated in La Verbena de la Paloma, directed by Maxi Rodríguez, within the framework of the Oviedo Zarzuela Season and wrote the music for the play Sidra en Vena. He is also part of the musical Horror, the show that should never have been made, with which he has performed at the Jovellanos Theater, the Niemeyer Center, among others.
After the success of his previous tour throughout the country, the artist presents his new show Trópico de Covadonga, conceived as a contemporary popular songbook with which he achieves a qualitative leap and consolidates his particular style, marked by folklore, electronic, the vintage elements and sense of humor that characterize his staging.
In his album Manual de Cortejo, published in 2019 in collaboration with Raül Refree, he mixes Asturian rhythms and melodies with muiñeira and habaneras, among other styles. Among his awards, the Best World Music Album and Best Emerging Artist at the MIN Awards stand out. That same year he also premiered his last show: Barbián, a cabaret zarzuela with which he was at the Teatro de la Zarzuela, at the Veranos de la Villa and, more recently, at the Prague Quadrennial of Scenography and Stage Space.
In 2021, the year in which he received the Ojo Crítico Award, he also founded the La Benéfica de Piloña association (Asturias), together with Sergi Martí and Nacho Somovilla, with the intention of creating a living arts center for cultural artistic expression, community action and the fight against abandonment and depopulation of rural areas, whose headquarters are built on the building of the former Benéfica de Piloña, the Mutual Aid Society. Subsequently, in 2022 he was recognized with the 2022 Rainbow Award from the Ministry of Equality.
In September of that same year he released his third album, Manual de Romería, which was preceded by the premiere of the show, based on his latest album, La romería, which premiered on June 30 at the Girona (a)phónica Festival. , and with which he has already toured more than twenty cities this summer and has numerous performances confirmed until 2024 in different national locations and international locations in Portugal, Belgium, France and Mexico. The show draws on the songs from the album, in which it uses Asturian and Spanish as vehicular languages.