Students of different classes have been reading about several musicians who have had to overcome difficult barriers and various problems to become the artists they are today. Read about them and listen to their videos or interviews.
Hello, my name is Charles from 2o B, I’m going to tell you about a video we watched in English class. It was about poor children in a town in Paraguay that love playing musical instruments. But the instruments they play are very unusual. They are made from recycled materials from the dump near their homes. They learn playing the instruments (violin, chello etc.) and they enjoy a lot. Now they are famous and travel to many other countries and give concerts. The name of their orchestra is Landfill* Harmonic!
* Landfill : vertedero
Realizado por Carlos Melchor Fernández - 2ºB
MORE ABOUT THE LANDFILL HARMONIC
We have watched a video about some children who live in a poor town in Paraguay, called Cateura. These children make instruments from recycling materials taken from the trash of the dump. The children enyoy learning music and playing the instruments. They love it!
I like this video because the children have courage and they enjoy their life with music.
Realizado por Daniel Mateos Santos - 2ºB
RICK ALLEN
You can watch his interview on: https://youtu.be/xKyD_Y6Tb2A
Realizado por Martín Rodríguez Huerta 4ºA
MARCKO VOURIHEIMO
Rick Allen is the drummer of the band of metal “Def Leppard”. He was a really nice drummer but he had a car accident and he hurt his arm. In the hospital the doctors decided the situation was so bad that his arm had to be amputated.
“Def Leppard” were recording the most important album of the band: “Pour some sugar on me”, so in order to be able to keep on playing, Rick designed an electronical device to play the drums without an arm.
I think he’s very clever and inspirational because he is one of the best drum players of all the history of music even without one arm, an essential limb to play the drums.
Realizado por Martín Rodríguez Huerta 4ºA
MARCKO VOURIHEIMO
Marko Vuoriheimo is a finnish rapper. His maximum pecualiarity lies in the fact that he is deaf from birth. He interprets the songs using sign language, due to his disability. Marko began to perform popular tunes. To sign language to sing them at parties and his friends convinced him to start composing his own songs.
Song https://youtu.be/gfNoMJ1GYzM
Realizado por Oliver Ruano 2º B
JUSTIN BIEBER
Like many others celebrities, Justin Bieber grew up without his father’s presence. The singer’s mother, a teenager when he was born, did what she could to contribute income to the home but could never pay him a class at a music school. The Canadian has been a self-taught in his profession. In addition, the young man has explained that his partners laughed at him for his humble origins.
VOCABULARY FROM THE TEXT -Contribute income: contribuir ingresos. - Self-taught: autodidacta.
-Humble: humilde.
Realizado por Diego Domínguez 2º B
PABLO LÓPEZ
He is a Spanish singer and musician. Pablo López participated in the sixth edition of OT, in 2008. He didn’t have a good relationship with Risto Mejide, a very tough judge with his assessments. Risto Mejide said that Pablo was a hotel pianist, cruise interpreter or a hunchbacked. Pablo López finished second, but he wanted to get away from the spotlight for a while and composed on his own. Ten years later, he returned to the stage of OT, this time as an international artist. Despite the conflicts, Pablo López and Risto Mejide fixed their differences and problems, today they have a good friendship.
Realizado por Lucía Boticario Cerro 2ºB
ADRIÁN MARTÍN VEGA
He was born in 2005,in Málaga (España) with hydrocephalus, that is, congenital malformations in his hands and an innate talent for music. It was not long until his parents realized that their little boy had an artist profile.
His path/ career into music officially began in 2014, with a video posted on Youtube. Accompanied by his sister, Adrián performed an impecable version of “Que Bonito” a song composed by his idol Rosario Flores. Since then, he has participated in different programs, such as the “ Spanish reality mom” “I want to be an artist” or “The American Talent”.
In 2016 his parents got Adrián to release his debut album “Full of Life”accompanied by famous musicians such as Jose Luis Perales, Niña Pastori, Coti, Franco de Vida and Rosario Flores. The work was not only a success in sales, but also managed to win a 2016 Latin Grammy nomination. He is a great role model and a champion.
Realizado por Irene Fernández 2ºB
BLAKE (Rapper)
Blake (or B.L.K.) is a rapper from Santa Marta de Tormes, in Salamanca. He sang before being famous with his friends and he also started writing his own songs. His first song was “cosas de la vida” in 2008, and his first album was “Visceral” in the memory of his grandfather. One of the problems that he had was that his grandfather died and that affected a lot in him, because his grandfather was like his best friend.
Other problems that he had were of family and of money (he was very very poor). In the song “lengua de serpiente” he said the sentence “si supieran de mí, sabrían que soy de esa gente que ha tenido que contar céntimos pa’ comer caliente” in the minute 1:19, that shows us that he had very bad economy problems, and he didn’t have a very good life, but he learned that he could do something to survive and he started writing songs and now he has a happy life.
Other problems that he had were of family and of money (he was very very poor). In the song “lengua de serpiente” he said the sentence “si supieran de mí, sabrían que soy de esa gente que ha tenido que contar céntimos pa’ comer caliente” in the minute 1:19, that shows us that he had very bad economy problems, and he didn’t have a very good life, but he learned that he could do something to survive and he started writing songs and now he has a happy life.
Realizado por Lucía Fernández Rubio 2ºB
ARCE
Realizado por Joaquín Mangas Martín 2ºB
Arce is a Spanish rapper that started to write his own songs in 2002, he was a very good football player, but he had problems with alcohol. He, then, began stealing for economic problems and in the year 2007 he entered in a young offenders institution. When he left the place, he wrote many songs that made him very famous, for example his song “Better thief than police”.
His songs are quite controversial. With his music he wants to help others to stop making his own mistakes.
Realizado por Joaquín Mangas Martín 2ºB
