Amaury Pérez Vidal
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Amaury Pérez Vidal (Havana, December 26, 1953). Composer, poet, guitarist and singer. Founding member of the Nueva Trova Movement. His songs are close to jazz and pop, others mixed with rock music, and his most recent line of creation is based on the romantic song style. He is one of the most important Cuban composers of the second half of the 20th century. He is also a performer, record producer, writer, screenwriter, and director and host of radio, shows and television.
He began his artistic career in 1972, with a concert he offered at the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), in a meeting with poets (he premiered works with texts by Cubans Nicolás Guillén, Otto Fernández, Fayad Jamís, Pedro de Oráa and Luis Marré). from different Latin American countries, including Julio Cortázar, Mario Benedetti and Eduardo Galeano.
His charisma places him among the artists of Cuban popular music who have achieved greater popularity, which increases from his new style of work, based on bringing the song, with a strong text, loaded with images and metaphors to the show, what he does with professional results. Hence, in addition to being the author and interpreter of his songs, he already ventures into stage scripts for his own concerts.
In 1976 he wins an important recognition at the Dresden Pop Music Festival (Germany); he performs with the ICAIC Sound Experimentation Group, with Pablo Milanés and Sara González, a tour that includes Spain, Poland and Bulgaria. In Spain he related to the most important figures of the song such as Joan Manuel Serrat (whom he had already met in Cuba), Pi de la Serra, María del Mar Bonet, Lluis Llach, Miguel Ríos, Luis Eduardo Aute, Ana Belén, Víctor Manuel and Teddy Bautista.
In 1978 he began working with the Grupo Síntesis, with which he participated in the Varadero '81 Song Festival, and later toured Venezuela, Mexico and Spain with it.
His songs, with texts by José Martí, were recorded by the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba, conducted by Armando Guerra, "with neo-baroque arrangements by Mike Porcel."
In cinema, he has created the music for the movie Hombres del mar, directed by Manuel Herrera; Isle of Youth, directed by Juan Carlos Tabío; for Cuban television he composed the songs for Tomorrow is Sunday, and for the series Until the Last Breath, directed by Vicente González Castro; Very personal with Amaury Pérez, under the direction of Joel Valdés, and With two who love each other, conducted by him.
He hosted programs broadcast on the radio, including Amaury y los otros and Como en casa, directed by Federico Wilkins. He acts in the film Leyenda, directed by Rogelio Paris; he records a duet with Xiomara Laugart, with a song composed by José María Vitier and Silvia Rodríguez Rivero, for the film A paradise under the stars, directed by Gerardo Chijona; He appears as an actor in the Cuban-American film Zafiros, Lorazepam Azul, by director Manuel Herrera; he participates as a musical comedian in Fifty Years of Love, by playwright Nelson Dorr.