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Arturo Sandoval
Actor, Additional CreditsBorn November 6, 1949 (75 years)
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.
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
| 2020 | Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story · as Self |
| 2019 | The 61st Annual Grammy Awards · as Self - Performer |
| 2017 | Hearing Is Believing · as Self |
| 2014 | Brownie Speaks · as Self |
| 2014 | Keep on Keepin' On · as Self |
| 2012 | MusiCares Tribute to Barbra Streisand · as Self |
| 2012 | CBS Mornings (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | The 46th Annual Grammy Awards · as Self - Performer |
| 2004 | Celia Cruz | ¡Azúcar! · as Self |
| 2004 | Tavis Smiley (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1997 | The 69th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Performer |
| 1995 | Super Bowl XXIX · as Self |
| 1993 | Late Show with David Letterman (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1987 | The Bold and the Beautiful (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1972 | Ein Kessel Buntes (TV Series) · as Self - Musician |
| 1959 | Grammy Awards (TV Series) · as Self |