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Lenny Kravitz in Barcelona

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

Lenny Kravitz’s appearance on the music scene was like no other. His entrance into international pop rock took place back in 1989 with his album “Let Love Rule”, now more than 20 years ago. Since then Kravitz has maintained the interest of international audiences with his songs and style. Winner of several international awards and Grammys, Kravitz’s history began inUpper Manhattan, where he grew up with his parents, who were involved in the entertainment industry of theU.S.As the story goes, Kravitz’s parents always supported his interest in being a part of the music industry. At first he wanted to play drums, which started when he was barely four years old, drumming loudly on pots and pans in their kitchen. After moving toLos Angelesat the age of 10, Lenny Kravitz discovered important bands like Led Zeppelin, The Who and Pink Floyd, among others, which have influenced his style of rock and stage presence. After the recording of “Let Love Rule” back in the late 80s, several record companies fought to obtain this young talent, who was full of attitude, and above all, his sound that mixed R&B, blues, rock, funk and pop. “Too white to be black, too black to be white” was one way the music press described his work, and this was no doubt his success to conquering the global market. At the time, Lenny Kravitz was a clear example that the best art is always on the sidelines and a mix of different styles and references, while at the same time original. One can recall that Kravitz was presented as the direct heir of Jimi Hendrix. Not... read more

Gavin DeGraw & Colbie Caillat Concert

Mónica Boixeda New Yorker, Only-Be

The famous baby-faced singer Gavin DeGraw is playing live on the 2nd of June at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park, New York, along with the pop-country singer Colbie Caillat. This concert will surely delight all of their fans and it will be a great chance to enjoy good music. Gavin DeGraw is a typical New York kid. He talks, sings, thinks and has fun like a New Yorker. His career is linked to Manhattan, where he began singing in clubs of the west area of the city. His early musical partners were the pianists Lenny and Andrés Revell, with who he managed to attract a lot of people thanks to his performing capacities, his solid voice and his interesting sounds. Since he began his career, he´s enjoyed the warm support and love of his crowd. He was also selected to make the music for the film Tristan and Isolda (2006), We Belong Together. His song I don´t wanna be was also the intro song for the famous teen-drama One Tree Hill. His musical work is very interesting since he is constantly striving to innovate his repertoire and make new recordings, such as the acoustic version of the music from his album Chariot, which he called Chariot Stripped. His golden era began in 2004 and, since then, he hasn´t stopped performing live in the United States along with some excellent TV performances. Despite that he´s not the baby-faced darling anymore, his maturity stands out in his music and his appearance, now having the seriousness to face musical projects. He signed his Chariot label contract with J Records and, thanks to his consistency and good relationship with the public,... read more

Absinthe in Barcelona

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

Among all the beverages in the world, there is probably no other that has a so admirable and awe legend as the absinthe, traditionally called the green fairy in reference to both, its emerald color when it reaches the perfect distillation, in no case less than seventy degrees, and the magical world that it gives access to, an altered state of consciousness as fertile, active and potentially frightening that can lead you either to heaven or to hell. That is why for the second romanticism, modernism and the symbolist movements, it became the drink par excellence, while leaving countless evidence of which there are testimonies in both, literature and painting of the last third of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth century in the work of artists like Rimbaud and Verlaine to Oscar Wilde, Van Gogh to Picasso, until it was banned in 1915 on behalf of public health to save citizens from the dangerous and aberrant hallucinations that apparently only this beverage was capable of causing , something that was seen significantly more important than protecting them from the dangerous and abhorrent realities that those authorities had no qualms of prohibitionist fed through a war of unprecedented destructive power at that time, and which was proven to devastate chilling impact beyond the words. There have never been enough words to adequately define the experience of drinking absinthe despite having been described countless times every single detail of its ceremony, also memorably represented in painting and in film. Due to its high ethyl content, you should place a teaspoon at the bottom of a glass... read more