Arturo Sandoval
Composer, Actor
6 November 1949 (76 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
| 2024 | The Neon Highway · as Original Music Composer |
| 2021 | Plantados · as ComposerOn Plex |
| 2019 | Richard Jewell · as Original Music Composer |
| 2018 | The Mule · as Original Music Composer |
| 2015 | Underdog Kids · as Original Music ComposerOn Plex |
| 2014 | 1000 to 1: The Cory Weissman Story · as Original Music ComposerOn Plex |
| 2013 | At Middleton · as Original Music ComposerOn Plex |
| 1995 | Lava-Lava! · as Composer |
| 1995 | The Perez Family · as Original Music Composer |
| 2024 | The 47th Annual Kennedy Center Honors · as Self - Honoree |
| 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 SelfOn Plex |
| 2012 | MusiCares Tribute to Barbra Streisand · as Self - Performer |
| 2012 | CBS Mornings · as Self |
| 2004 | The 46th Annual Grammy Awards · as Self - Performer |
| 2004 | Celia Cruz | ¡Azúcar! · as Self |
| 2004 | Tavis Smiley · as Self |
| 1997 | The 69th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Performer |
| 1995 | Super Bowl XXIX · as Self |
| 1992 | Late Show with David Letterman · as Self |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno · as Self |
| 1987 | The Bold and the Beautiful · as SelfOn Plex |
| 1978 | The Kennedy Center Honors · as Self - Honoree |
| 1972 | Ein Kessel Buntes · as Self - Musician |
| 1959 | Grammy Awards · as Self |
| 2001 | I Love Lucy's 50th Anniversary Special · as Guest Musician 'patria' |
| 2000 | For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story · as Funcionario |
| 1982 | Mästare på trumpet: Arturo Sandoval · as Cast |
| 1971 | Great Performances · as Performer |
| 2016 | Ride Along 2 · as Musician |
| 2014 | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 · as Musician |
| 2013 | I'm in Love with a Church Girl · as MusicianOn Plex |
| 2013 | The Lone Ranger · as Musician |
| 2011 | Rango · as Musician |
| 2002 | Big Trouble · as Musician |
| 2000 | For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story · as Musician |