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Arturo Sandoval
Artemisa, Cuba
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 Dizz…
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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.
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2024
Henry Mancini: 100 at the Hollywood Bowl
Movie Self
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2024
The Neon Highway
Movie Original Music Composer
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2023
Arturo Sandoval - Jazzopen Stuttgart 2023
Movie Self
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2021
Cosmo Life
Movie Self
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2020
Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story
Movie Self
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2019
Richard Jewell
Movie Original Music Composer
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2019
Marilyn and I
Movie Self
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2018
The Mule
Movie Original Music Composer
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2016
Ride Along 2
Movie Musician
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2015
Underdog Kids
Movie Original Music Composer
- 2014
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2014
Brownie Speaks
Movie Self
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2014
Keep on Keepin' On
Movie Self
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2014
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Movie Musician
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2014
1000 to 1
Movie Original Music Composer
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2013
I'm in Love with a Church Girl
Movie Musician
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2013
At Middleton
Movie Original Music Composer
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2013
The Lone Ranger
Movie Musician
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2011
Rango
Movie Musician
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2011
A MusiCares Tribute To Barbra Streisand
Movie Self - Performer
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2004
Celia Cruz | ¡Azúcar!
Movie Self
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2002
Big Trouble
Movie Musician
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2000
For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story
Movie Funcionario
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1995
The Perez Family
Movie Musician
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1995
Lo + plus
TV show Self
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1989
A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba
Movie Self - Trumpet
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1989
Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall
Movie Self - Trumpets, Fluglehorn
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1978
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV show Self - Honoree
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1959
The Grammys
TV show Self
