Arturo Sandoval

Arturo Sandoval adalah pemain terompet, pianis, dan komposer jazz Amerika Kuba. Sandoval, saat masih di Kuba, dipengaruhi oleh musisi jazz Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, dan Dizzy Gillespie, akhirnya bertemu Gillespie pada tahun 1977. Gillespie menjadi mentor dan kolega, bermain dengan Sandoval dalam konser di Eropa dan Kuba dan kemudian menampilkannya di Orkestra Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa. Sandoval membelot saat melakukan tur dengan Gillespie pada tahun 1990, dan dia menjadi warga negara yang dinaturalisasi pada tahun 1998. Kehidupannya menjadi subjek film For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000), yang dibintangi Andy García. Sandoval telah memenangkan sepuluh Grammy Awards dan dinominasikan sembilan belas kali; dia juga telah menerima enam Billboard Awards dan satu Emmy Award. Pada tanggal 8 Agustus 2013, Presiden Barack Obama mengumumkan bahwa Sandoval akan menerima Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Arturo Sandoval is a Cuban American jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer. Sandoval, while still in Cuba, was influenced by jazz musicians Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, and Dizzy Gillespie, finally meeting Gillespie later in 1977. Gillespie became a mentor and colleague, playing with Sandoval in concerts in Europe and Cuba and later featuring him in the United Nations Orchestra. Sandoval defected while touring with Gillespie in 1990, and he became a naturalized citizen in 1998. His life was the subject of the film For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000), starring Andy García. Sandoval has won ten Grammy Awards and been nominated nineteen times; he has also received six Billboard Awards and one Emmy Award. On August 8, 2013, President Barack Obama announced that Sandoval would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.