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So Near... So Far

Apr 17, 2017
1h 0m
★ 0.0

The life of Pablo Menendez, founder and director of the music group Mezcla.

Overview

The young American Pablo Menéndez came to Cuba to study Music at the National School of Art. Here he formed a family and became one more Cuban. Member of the Sound Experimentation Group of ICAIC and promoter of the teaching of the electric guitar in Cuba, he is, together with his group Mezcla, one of our most original musicians.

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