Ethel Afamado (born 25 April 1940[1]) is a Uruguayan composer, poet, guitarist, and singer-songwriter.
Ethel Afamado | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 April 1940 Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, poet |
| Relatives | Gladys Afamado (sister) |
Biography
editEthel Afamado's musical background includes studies of violin, bassoon, singing, guitar, and composition. She has taken theater courses with Juan Carlos Carrasco and Jorge Triador. Particularly interested in traditional Sephardic music, she has compiled material and given several recitals to showcase these old songs.[2] She has created music for over 100 poems by Uruguayan and Hispanoamerican authors, performing numerous recitals in song with guitar accompaniment.[3]
Afamado has also composed songs for plays, including those by Cervantes, Florencio Sánchez, and Federico García Lorca. From 1987 to 1997 she presented her recital Canción e imagen as a soloist with her sister Gladys Afamado. She has presented, among others, the recitals Mujeres, sus voces, en mi voz, Caminos de la palabra, and Canciones para sentir. She performed the show titled Canto y poesía alongside actress Maruja Santullo, and Mujeres sus voces nuestra voz with poet Lourdes Peruchena.
In 1993 she participated in the poet Jorge Arbeleche's Ágape cassette, with three of his musicalizations. In 1997 she again took part in Ágape, this time released on disc. The poems were musicalized or recited by a large number of national artists, including Andrés Stagnaro, Dahd Sfeir, Estela Medina, Antonio Larreta, Juan Alberto Sobrino, Jorge Bolani, Gonzalo Ruiz, Enrique Rodríguez Viera, and Washington Carrasco and Cristina Fernández.[4]
Awards and recognition
edit- 2001 – at the invitation of the Chamber of Representatives, took part in the event honoring Juana de Ibarbourou at the Legislative Palace[5][6]
- 2002 – Lolita Rubial Foundation National Grand Prize for the short story "La volqueta"[7][8]
References
edit- ^ Campodónico, Miguel Ángel (1 January 2003). Nuevo diccionario de la cultura uruguaya [New Dictionary of Uruguayan Culture] (in Spanish). Linardi y Risso. p. 14. ISBN 9789974559318. Retrieved 20 November 2017 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Martín Palacio presenta el libro 'Psikodalia'" [Martín Palacio Presents the Book 'Psikodalia']. San José Ahora (in Spanish). 25 August 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ^ "Ágape – Poemas de Jorge Arbeleche (1997), Música" (in Spanish). Radiografías de la Música. Archived from the original on 7 March 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ^ Courtoisie, Rafael (3 October 2003). "Arbeleche, el otro, el mismo" [Arbeleche, the Other, the Same]. El País (in Spanish). Montevideo. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ^ "Homenaje a Juana de Ibarbourou" [Tribute to Juana de Ibarbourou]. LaRed21 (in Spanish). 12 August 2001. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ^ "Puesta teatral sobre creaciones de Juana" [Theatrical Play About Juana's Creations]. Últimas Noticias (in Spanish). Uruguay. 1 June 2009. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ^ "Inventario". El País (in Spanish). Montevideo. 25 April 2003. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ^ "Cuentos del Taller" [Stories From the Workshop] (in Spanish). Lolita Rubial Foundation. Retrieved 20 November 2017.