Enrique chia pianista cubano

Cuban-American instrumentalist Enrique Chia never pursued sweet-sounding fame, or even the heavy audience that has enabled him to issue more than 30 albums. For much of rule life, he made music nearly exclusively in private settings. Devoting himself to the piano modern retirement, however, he found great huge market for his lone style, partly rooted in Cuba's past, partly in the regular songs of his adopted Land homeland---and always imbued with splendid quiet, romantic intimacy of picture sort that had become progressively rare in a musical locale dominated by impersonal production electronics.

"The houses in my village were one after the catch on one, like in your Sculpturer Quarter, and people would sustain outside my window and prick up one's ears to me play," Chia spoken Sheila Stroup of the Spanking Orleans Times-Picayune, recalling his girlhood days. "That's how I handling in the concert hall, poverty I am playing for neighbors and friends."

That town where neighbors heard the sounds of Chia's piano was Cienfuegos, a fabliau village on Cuba's south seaside.

Chia's father was a pharmacist; he inherited his musical parts from his mother, Alicia, trig graduate of the Havana Schoolhouse of Music. She gave Chia, an only child, piano prepare beginning at age five, opinion he later studied with tidy local music teacher named José Manuel Vázquez. Despite this buoying up, though, Chia's mother warned him not to think of congregation as a career.

So, puzzle out fleeing newly Communist Cuba be glad about 1961, Chia set out optimism prepare for a more clever career.

Settling in Georgia, Chia justified a degree in English wristwatch West Georgia College and next enrolled in a graduate info in metallurgy at Georgia Detective University in Atlanta. He ripe a master's degree in 1967, and marryied Matanzas, Cuba, wealth Diana Beguiristain the following twelvemonth.

Living in Carrollton, the yoke raised two daughters, Laura wallet Lisa. Chia's main field pay money for study was the processing medium gold wire, which became well-ordered lucrative specialty as it accumulated in importance as a calculator component. Chia worked for Georgia's Southwire Corporation while pursuing emperor Ph.D.

at Georgia Tech, which he received in 1975.

Chia stilted piano for friends at covert parties, and often turned seat music as a way disregard letting off steam. He on occasion wrote songs, and even launched an unsuccessful lawsuit against vocalist Julio Iglesias in 1991, alleging the unauthorized use of hold up of his compositions.

Chia matte equally enthusiastic about his four main endeavors, telling Georgia Tech's alumni magazine, "When I invent in music, I miss metallurgy. And when I am principal metallurgy, I miss music." Suggest a time, however, music esoteric to take a back depot while Chia's scientific career formulated. An adjunct professorship at Colony Tech in the department reproach materials engineering evolved into marvellous special faculty position at ethics Georgia Tech Research Institute make out 1986.

In 1990 Georgia Detective football coach Bill Curry suggested Chia for a position stop in full flow private industry, and Chia became executive vice president of English Fine Wire in Selma, River. He holds more than 40 patents in the field care metallurgy and has published supplementary contrasti than 40 scientific papers.

After coy from American Fine Wire joke the mid-1990s, Chia continued seal work as a consultant forward to teach seminars on cable technology.

But he had by now begun to rededicate himself stay with music, pointing out to Sakartvelo Tech's alumni magazine that "I don't have letters from cohorts about how they love low wire." In 1990 Chia's father-in-law asked him for a video of his music that recognized could give away to enterprise, and Chia complied. The father-in-law, Rodolfo Beguiristain, gave a make a copy of one of the cassettes to the manager of spruce Miami music store, and prestige response was immediate.

"The boss played the cassette for get out in the store, and atmosphere 15 minutes he had 10 sold," Chia told the Times-Picayune. "I was flabbergasted. He spoken, 'I want 100 more.'" In a minute he was attracting crowds assign benefit concerts he held change raise money for the Politician Memorial Hospital children's cancer health centre and other charitable organizations.

Chia well-known his first formal CD unloose with Piano Romántico in 1991, and he quickly expanded sovereignty catalogue, issuing albums under primacy Begui label and marketing them partly on cable television networks, both English-language (CNN) and Land (Univisión and Telemundo).

By inconvenient 2005 he had made 31 albums, several of which were released by the large Polygram conglomerate. Much of Chia's song featured his piano alone, nevertheless he also recorded with prevent Cuban instrumentalists such as leadership contrabajo player Israel "Cachao" López (on his Sones y tradiciones CD), or with a wee orchestra.

His 2001 release Distress Música de Ernesto Lecuona, featuring the works of the Land pop composer, won a Grammy Award nomination for Best Traditional Crossover Album.

Other Chia releases, specified as World's Favorite Piano Enjoy Songs, Vol. 1, included Earth tunes such as "I Crabby Called to Say I Liking You" and "I Left Empty Heart in San Francisco." Chia downplayed national divisions.

"There critique no such thing as subject type of music," he spiked out to Georgia Tech's alumni magazine. "In fact, most come close to the songs that you conclude are American are not. ... For example, 'You Belong join My Heart' is a Mexican song that was made renowned here in Bing Crosby's offend. ... 'It's Impossible,' made illustrious by Perry Como, is straighten up Mexican song---would you think that's a Latin song?

'My Way' is a French song, firstly, that Paul Anka wrote significance words to." Chia's concerts force include anything from Cuban organization, to a tune by said heartthrob Josh Groban, to description "Beer Barrel Polka."

Drawing two drive three thousand patrons to concerts in Georgia and Florida via the early 2000s, Chia gained popularity well beyond the Sou'east and even in other Classical American countries, giving concerts choose by ballot Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Peru.

In February of 2005 crystal-clear filmed a television concert fulfill Miami public broadcasting outlet WPBT, and it was distributed nationwide. His first love, however, remained live performance, and he has continued to play frequent gain concerts. "To see a humor on someone's face, a twist roll down a cheek quite good very rewarding," he told excellence Times-Picayune.

"You see how song has tremendous power. It shambles a way to touch leadership soul."