Juan Calvino

The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legend. In 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium and played a blistering solo that announced the arrival of a prodigious musical talent. Two years later -- after he played a historic set at Woodstock -- the world came to know the name Carlos Santana, his sensual and instantly recognizable guitar sound, and the legendary band that blended electric blues, psychedelic rock, Latin rhythms, and modern jazz, and that still bears his name. Carlos Santana's...

Perseguida, proscrita y exiliada, la legendaria cantante folclórica argentina, Mercedes Sosa, hizo temblar a los dictadores sudamericanos en los ’70. Apodada “La voz de los que no tienen voz”, Sosa se convirtió en un ícono de la democracia y una muy amada madre de América Latina. Mercedes Sosa – La voz de la esperanza expone la notable vida y carrera de Sosa y ofrece un perfil psicológico que revela el secreto detrás de su enorme impacto. Con su poderosa voz y su irresistible presencia en el escenario, la cantante folklórica argentina, Mercedes Sosa, era una intérprete de...

This book is an exploration of Jack Kerouac, the writer that a whole generation turned into their reluctant spokesman. Duval gives a voice to key figures from that movement: the poet Allen Ginsberg; Carolyn Cassadys wife and Kerouacs lover; Joyce Johnson, who was in a relationship with the writerwhen he became famous; Timothy Leary, the psychedelic guru of the sixties; Anne Waldman, beat poet; and Ken Kesey, a central figure of American counter-culture. Through their stories, we investigate the mysterious figure of Jack Kerouac, the man who wrote the most important novel of his generation to...

Chavela Vargas nos presenta con este libro su biografía sentimental. De la mano de la excepcional artista mexicana rememoramos aquí los más significativos pasajes de su trayectoria profesional, en un relato marcado por el tono irónico del lenguaje. Como en muchas de sus más renombradas canciones, la artista nos presenta, además, la historia de una vida cargada de muchos momentos particularmente alegres pero, también, sabremos de su más íntimo e intenso dolor personal. Ella es, sin lugar a dudas, uno de los últimos mitos de la música popular en el hemisferio. Musa de poetas y...