Mayimbe Post-USA Tour Update

Breaking News: Mayimbe Auditioning New Singers - As we receive photos, reports and feedback from the Mayimbe tour of the US, the breaking news is that front-line singers Marcelo (Marcelo Villar Cano) and Angelito (Ángel Ramírez Ballesteros) are not part of the band anymore, and that auditions are in process for their replacements. Maybe it's a case of soloist dreams after their incredible reception, as all their concerts were well attended and the band was tight and rehearsed, but at the end of the day this is the music business, and the ultimate currency of this business is "the song". Click here to view the official press release (in larger size) from Bárbaro Fines and the band.  

Text version of the press release
COMUNICADO DE PRENSA
Por medio de la presente nota queremos informar a nuestro querido  público algunos puntos importantes que han venido suscitando el  interés de quienes nos siguen, sobre la actualidad de la orquesta:

En primer lugar, y por una decisión netamente personal basada en el  desarrollo y crecimiento profesional al que todo ser humano tiene  derecho, es que Ángel Ramírez Ballesteros y Marcelo Villar Cano han  dejado de pertenecer a nuestra agrupación, hecho que lamentamos pero  que a su vez también entendemos. Por el cariño, aprecio que les  tenemos y el reconocimiento que merecen, es que aceptamos esta  decisión y también le enviamos nuestros mejores deseos de éxitos a su  carrera en solitario, dejando en claro y puntualizando que su salida  no tiene otros motivos y/o razones que los antes mencionados.

BFM después de una extensa gira de poco más de un mes por los EE.UU.  de Norteamérica en el que nuestra misión y consiga principal fue dejar  en alto el nombre del Perú, anunciamos que estaremos reintegrándonos a  nuestras presentaciones a partir del VIERNES 19 de JULIO y NO como en  primera instancia se comunicó que sería un viernes antes (viernes12). 

El nombre de los nuevos integrantes de la delantera del Mayimbe será  comunicado oportunamente y a su debido tiempo, estos serán quienes se  unirán a los ya conocidos por todos ustedes Gary Lobatón Orosco y  Damian Janes Carbonell.  Agradecemos como siempre, vuestro interés, vuestro apoyo, vuestra  fidelidad. MAYIMBE seguirá colocando el nombre de Perú y Cuba, mano a  mano, en las cimas de la música, de la historia musical de estos años.  Para ello están dirigidos todos nuestros esfuerzos y nuestro empeño.

Para ello y para uds, con el cariño de siempre.
Bárbaro Fines Fortes
Director Musical de Barbaro Fines y su MAYIME EIRL

Word from Florentine Gardens in Los Angeles - De La Habana a Peru a LOS ANGELES! Los Mayimberos ya nacieron en L.A. The Concert started just after after midnight on Friday night. Before the show, I had the chance to meet with the director Barbaro Fines. I was excited to meet with him and discuss this amazing band, his first smokin album "De la Habana a Peru" and his future projects. He seemed pretty emotional at times during our conversation, actually breaking out in tears at times, especially when describing his amazing story and odyssey of finding his passion for Cuban Music once again upon arrival in a foreign country named "Peru". He said "This first album I wrote on the floor of my worn down immigrant motel room after arriving in Lima. I wrote it thinking of my family, friends and my homeland of Cuba which I had left behind. This first album is for them and for my future family, I hope it is to one day become a part of my legacy". He says his second album named "Mensajeros de Olofi" is due out in the coming months (editor's note - may take some more time as the old singers will be replaced in these new tracks). It was amazing to witness this band, the energy and the audience as well. Mainly all young South American / Peruvian in attendance. The turnout was great, about 300-400 persons. The band sounded very tight LIVE as if I was listening to them in a studio. They opened with their Mayimbe intro song, followed up by the very popular "El Diablo" track!  Kudos to San Francisco / Bay Area though as when asked which city was his favorite on this U.S tour thus far, to my surprise, Barbaro's response was "San Francisco". "It has been our most significant and important stop along the tour, It's a very important plaza for Mayimbe" . 
On assignment for Timba.com
David "MANGO" González

Girls get it on with Mayimbe at Florentine Gardens in Los Angeles

Bárbaro Fines y su Mayimbe at Florentine Gardens in Los Angeles

Director and pianist Bárbaro Fines lays it down in Elizabeth, New Jersey

Bárbaro Fines y su Mayimbe in Elizabeth, New Jersey

Bárbaro Fines y su Mayimbe at S.O.B.s in New York

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Word to the departing singers

If you start your own bands, please choose a band name other than Mayimbe this time. ;)

Posted by: Bill Tilford on Tuesday, 09 July 2013, 11:01 PM