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Berenice Chávez
Berenice Chávez Cifuentes (12 June 1926 – September 2008) was a Colombian singer. She sang in various traditional Colombian styles and was known as the "Queen of Colombian Song". Biography Early life and education Chávez was born on 12 June 1926 in Bogotá, Colombia to Isidoro Chávez Castillo, a musician and folklorist, and Antonia Cifuentes Hernández. She attended school at the ''Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepción'' in Bogotá, where she sang in the school choir. She also knew how to play tiple, but preferred to sing to accompaniment. Music career Chávez was in a duo with her sister Cecilia called Las Hermanas Chávez, and together they regularly sang on radio stations including Radio Nacional de Colombia and La Voz de Colombia; at the same time, Chávez worked at the Colombian for a decade starting from 1944. Las Hermanas Chávez later performed on Rádio Nacional in Brasília. Las Hermanas Chávez split when Cecilia moved to New York, and Berenice embarked on a sol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bogotá
Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish Imperial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city, capital and largest city of Colombia, and one of the List of largest cities, largest cities in the world. The city is administered as the Capital District, as well as the capital of, though not politically part of, the surrounding department of Cundinamarca Department, Cundinamarca. Bogotá is a territorial entity of the first order, with the same administrative status as the departments of Colombia. It is the main political, economic, administrative, industrial, cultural, aeronautical, technological, scientific, medical and educational center of the country and northern South America. Bogotá was founded as the capital of the New Kingdom of Granada on 6 August 1538 by Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada after a harsh Spanish conquest of the Muisca, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colombian Cinema
Cinema of Colombia refers to film productions made in Colombia, or considered Colombian for other reasons. Colombian cinema, like any national cinema, is a historical process with industrial and artistic aspects. Historically, Colombian cinema has not been profitable as an industry, which has prevented continuing production and employing filmmakers and technicians. During the first decades of the 20th century, there were some companies that attempted to maintain a constant level of production, but the lack of economic support and strong foreign competition ended up ruining the initiatives. In the 1980s, the newly created state-run Cinematographic Development Company (''Compañía de Fomento Cinematográfico'' FOCINE) allowed some productions to be carried out. However, the company had to be liquidated in the early 1990s. In 1997 the Colombian Congress approved Law 397 of Article 46, or the General Law of Culture, with the purpose of supporting the development of the Colombian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
