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Paul Mauriat Visit to Lima - 1981
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- Promotional Visit
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José Peñaloza
Translation:
In a promotional visit
Arrived to Lima Paul Mauriat french
musical conductor
For the outstanding French musical
conductor, Paul
Mauriat, the two more important moments in his life were
being together for 29 years to Irene,
his partner of "all of
his life" as he defines it and the recording of the song "Love
is Blue", that marked the beginning of his artistic career.
In an informal meeting held yesterday in
the studios of Channel 4, with the specialized journalists,
while recording the presentation of the "special" that edited in
December of last year in Tokyo, Japan, Mauriat pointed out that
for him, Frank Pourcel is a "simple person, one of my first
friends, because, he was born in Marseille, same as me and with
much talent, inclined to the romantic field."
As for the absence of new artistic names since 1965, expressed
that "is a complicated thing, because we suffer the influence of
the American music
and this phenomenon, obviously does not
allow a style on its own for the French music and as
consequence, it is exported less each time. But he
added, in short time, it will reach an
unexpected rise.
In this visit, the
first time that he makes to Peru, Paul Mauriat, came to capture
a bit of the Peruvian music, and also to promote his next show
that will be performed in May of '82, hired specially and in
exclusive for the International Direction of the Promoter "Chomin's",
where he will arrive in front of his orchestra of 45 musicians.
In another question, Paul Mauriat said
that the reason because his orchestra is composed by musicians
of different nationalities, is because the "French are very
homey". In another moment of the interview, he said that he has
in mind the recording of another LP in which he will include
Peruvian songs, and he showed surprise when he was told that the
song "El Condor Pasa" that he played so many times, was of
Peruvian origin.