Dos Voces
Jacqueline Castro Ravelo/ Rafael Manriquez
Friday May 19, 2006
$12 gen. $10 students - 8pm
Dos Voces. The Chilean singer Jacqueline Castro Ravelo of Holland joins our own Bay Area favorite Rafael Manriquez. Exiled in Netherlands for 28 years, Jacqueline shares her songs in honor of Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean Nobel prize-winning writer. Rafael will be sharing his
songs dedicated to the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and other Chilean writers.
Jacqueline Castro Ravelo
Jacqueline has been living in the Netherlands for 28 years. She makes programmes for concerts in which poetry and music come together. During the last couple of years her most important task has been to pass on her cultural inheritance. She worked mostly on protest songs and folklore- based music from Latin-America.
As a Professional artist in the Classroom Jacqueline is a perfect cultural guerrilla fighter. She gives so many examples of existing music styles that children enter into a creative flow and spontaneously achieve the purpose of her lessons. “The will to show the most beautiful things I can do, is my strongest weapon to get into contact with people. I show what I am. That is necessary to survive as a political refugee. The most beautiful thing that can happen to me is TO SING”.
Rafael Manriquez
Virtuoso Chilean singer Rafael Manriquez is a songwriter and musician. Inspired by the voices of Violeta Parra and Victor Jara from his homeland of Chile, Rafael expresses through his songs the profound desire of his people for peace, freedom and self-determination. Combining extraordinary musical talent with heartfelt commitment, his music captures the essence of the transforming power of song. He has performed as a solo artist and with groups for over thirty years, bringing the music of Latin America to audiences all over the world.
Formerly the Artistic Director of Grupo Raiz, a Berkeley-based New Song ensemble formed by Chilean exiles, Rafael Manriquez has been awarded Artist-in-Residence grants by the California Arts Council for five years to lead Latin American workshops at La Peña Cultural Center. Rafael was named as one of the Bay Area's ten outstanding contributors to the Arts by the Oakland Tribune.
