Biography
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.
Filmography
all 28
Movies 27
self 11
TV Shows 1
The Neon Highway (2024)
Plantados (2021)
Richard Jewell (2019)
The Mule (2018)
Ride Along 2 (2016)
Underdog Kids (2015)
1000 to 1 (2014)
At Middleton (2013)
The Lone Ranger (2013)
Rango (2011)
Big Trouble (2002)
The Perez Family (1995)
Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall (1989)
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GenderMale
Birthday1949-11-06 (75 years old)
Birth PlaceArtemisa, Cuba
CitizenshipsCuba
AwardsAmerican Book Awards, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
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