“Cultura Profética” Prophetic Culture is more than a rustic reggae band in Spanish, is an ingenious project with a strong track record which 20 years of experience and 7 albums. Over one million fans on social networks and maintain an average of more than 20 thousand daily visits. Each update on their fan pages generated thousands of comments in just minutes. Youtube visitors exceeded the number of million .
“Cultura Profetica” Prophetic Culture was formed by the need to express social ideas through roots style rhymes. They are the most love and respected reggae band in Puerto Rico. They have obtained golden record and have captivated all radio stations, including the ballad, which have revolutionized their radio formats for your music sound, because the fans demanded it. The band members are: Willy Rodriguez (vocals and bass), Boris Bilbraut (drums and vocals), Omar Silva (guitar and bass), Juanqui Sulsona (piano and keyboards), Eliut Gonzalez (guitars), Egui Santiago (organ and keyboards), Roy Sanchez (percussion), Ilang Ilang Gutiérrez (chorus), Kianí Medina (vocals), Esteban González (trombone), Eduardo Cosme (trumpet), José Furito Rivers (saxophone), Elier Caro (soundman), Alex Diaz (visual and photography)
Cultura Profetica recorded their first studio production titled; Warning song in Jamaica in the recording studio of Bob Marley. In 1998, he was released their debut album with which they were released throughout the island. In this production, its most popular song was “Fruit of the Earth.” One issue in favor of legalizing marijuana and nature conservation, now a day Puerto Rico Island is in the process to legalized for medical purpose. A year later released their second studio album titled New Ideas in which experienced and merged with musical styles like hip-hop, bossa nova, trip-hop, jazz, bachata, carranga among others. In this production, some of its most prominent issues are “New Ideas” and “Release the Moorings” in which guest is Guillermo Bonetto, Los Cafres.
In 2001 they released their first live album Culture Live, recorded in his 2000 concert held at the Tito Puente Amphitheater in San Juan Puerto Rico. This concert was a guest group, the Argentine reggae band; The CAFRES. In 2002 his third studio album Journal in which first begin to sing love songs, with songs like “before” and “Where No Reach My Verso”. One of his most famous songs in this production was “Bieke”, a song for the liberation of the island of Vieques. This topic is an adaptation of the song Bob Marley Zimbabwe.
In 2005 he was released his album MOTA, in the song Sube el Humo explain the meaning of the acronym (moments of leisure in the Temple of Ajusco), and this is an umbrella in the history of Reggae in Spanish, and showing a professional band, but with a solid growth lyrical and musical concept. Two years later he paid tribute to legendary reggae musician Bob Marley, emulating his most famous songs almost perfectly. Boris Bilbraut, the drummer of the band made of lead vocals on this successful tributo.1
2010 is the year goes on sale Tenderness his latest album under the label La Mafafa, is a production of Willy Rodriguez (vocals and bass), Omar Silva (guitar and bass), Eliut González (guitar), Boris Bilbraut (drums and vocals) and John C. Sulsona (keyboard). Over 20 years Prophetic Culture has been very important musicians who for one reason or another have had to abandon the project but its base is thus maintained since its inception. In February 2015 for the first time in the history of his career, Prophetic Culture is part of the festival Vina del Mar in Chile taming the “monster” and taking home silver gull and gull gold.
They identify with the student struggles in favor of higher education for all sectors of society. Prophetic culture is a cult band, something dreamed but inaccessible to most contemporary bands, especially Spanish language. They are not going to double standards are consistent and do not lie to their fans. So it is not surprising that the issue Complicity were for 20 weeks on the charts of Billboards and Tenderness appear number 1 on the iTunes Latino Tropical.There hasn’t been a successful band like Cultura Profetica in the roots they are our maximum and best reggae band from Puerto Rico to the world. To get more information about cultura contact Soraya Abdouni, Manager/Booking. skalotto@gmail.com or +1 (787) 528-6486 or +1 (787) 460-9518
His Family and close friends call him Omar Vazquez Santos but in the art world streets his name is Mostdefynite “DEFY” from ADM CRU have leave his most recent mark in Barcelona Street.
Founded in 2002, the ADM (Aerosol Designing Minds) is a group of 8 young Puerto Ricans dedicated to the practice of graffiti. Since its inception, this group composed Bez, Defy, Dwek, Iks, Nek, Selek, Xel and Pun18, its founder, has been characterized by maintaining a solid reputation by proposing a consistent supply, fresh style, textures and design, with a colorful palette, nourishes all painted within the circuit of “writing style” along the island of Puerto Rico images. In addition, recognition has spread worldwide in places where they have exhibited their works such as Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Montreal, Toronto, New York and San Francisco, among others.
Which come from different cultural contexts, does not add any of these 8 artists limitation. Rather, it is the main element that impels them to achieve new aesthetic dimensions while maintaining high affinity and unique in their productions harmony. For more information about DEFY or ADM CRU email at: mosdefynite@gmail.com
Mario E. Ramirez doing independent videography is the creator of Tostfilms. Since 2012 has been documenting Puerto Rico urban art scene. The artist Mario E. Ramirez Capellá travels to different parts of the world for documenting interventions of urban space with urban artists to capture that moment of creating art and to appreciate it in different perspectives.
Tostfilms focuses on the documentation of urban art in the process. They have collaborated with local and international inside and outside the island artists. Artists like Alexis Diaz, BIK ISMO, David Zayas, Pixel Pancho, Spear, Don RIMX, Inti, Faith47, Jaz, Evoca1, etc… Tostfilms work has been recognized internationally and videos have been shared by social networks around the world as Street Art News, The Huffington Post, Brooklyn Street among others.
Mario E. Ramirez, David Zayas, Damaris Cruz, BIK ISMO
Mario have an important mission when he capture that moment of artistic creation and to appreciate different perspectives. Mario is creating and immortalizing Puerto Rico Art in many ways…
Alexis Diaz “La Pandilla”, Nicole Chacón, Mario E. Ramirez
Mario strongly believe that Tostfilm is a movement. It is a means for urban art and his artistic work. Tostfilms works also as a promoter of art or artist. for more information about Tostfilm http://www.tostfilms.com or tostfilms@gmail.com
Curators in almost all art museum hold PhDs and have distinguished records of scholarship and Carla Acevedo Yates understand these very well. The qualifications are getting more–not less–stringent. The reason is simple: without knowledge of what these collections are and why we value them, there is no point in having museums. Carla create the soul that people connect to and invest in by sharing their knowledge with audiences on many levels
Carla Acevedo-Yates is a curator, researcher, and art critic based in San Juan, Puerto Rico and New York. She earned an M.A. in Curatorial Studies and Contemporary Art at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (Ramapo Curatorial Prize) and a B.A. in Spanish and Latin American Cultures from Barnard College, Columbia University (Clara Schifrin Memorial Spanish Prize in Poetry). In 2008 she founded Dawire.com, an online platform for contemporary art that addresses emerging art production on the island and abroad, while hosting a wide range of contributors from the Americas. Since 2011 she has worked as an independent curator. Recent projects include Turn on the bright lights at the Hessel Museum of Art (Ramapo Curatorial Prize), Soy Isla: A conversation on and around Zilia Sánchez at Artists Space Books and Talks, The Dialectic City: Document | Context at Laboratorio de Artes Binarios and OB-R at ARTLAB753, a project that experimented with exhibition formats and collaborative production models. Her writing has appeared in Art Agenda, Small Axe: A Caribbean Platform for Criticism, Artpulse, La Tempestad, Mousse, South as a State of Mind, and Sculpture. She was a curatorial resident at Espaço Fonte (Recife, Brazil) in 2014 and RIC (Santiago, Chile) in 2015.
Carla has done some online projects like:
A. DaWire when she Founded on July 26th 2009, DaWire is an online platform featuring artist texts, editorials, interviews, exhibition news and reviews from across the globe with a focus on Central America and the Caribbean, Institute fro tropical Research.
B. The Institute for Tropical Research (ITR) is a project that addresses tropicalities in contemporary art through historical research, documentation, and critical thinking. Its aim is to define the terms of discussion, both today and historically, and to critically engage with the iconography and contextualization of art made in tropical climates.
C. Archive of Problem. There are a thousand stories intertwined in the lives of those on our graphic, many of which are worth any scholar or inquisitive soul’s time to study. Archive of problems is a comprehensive history of philosophy infographic.
The Dialectic City Document / Context curated by Carla Acevedo Yates San Juan, PR.
With less then 35 yrs old Carla has done many selected projects like:
- West 21st Street Drive-In (Leave Your Car at Home)
- Prólogo a un objeto at AREA
- Turn on the bright lights at Hessel
- Jesús Bubu Negrón at CCS Bard
- Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Robin Bruch at Leslie Fritz
- Zilia Sánchez at AS Books and Talks
- OB-R at ARTLAB
- The Dialectic City [Document|Context]
- Tree Boat: A Meditative Non-Site
Turn on the bright Light @ Hessel Museum of Art
Some of her selected text are:
- José Morales at MAPR
- The 31st Sao Paulo Biennial
- Bernadette Corporation: 2000 Wasted Years
- Seth Price at Friedrich Petzel
- Less is More: La Loseta and the Economy of Means
- Considering Activist Art in the Age of Occupations
- Ironing a Camel’s Hump
- Spain’s 30-year-old art fair turns slightly modest
- Renegade Acts
- Reflections on the Electric Mirror
- ¡Patria o Libertad!: The Rhetorics of Patriotism
- The Good, the Bad, and the Greater New York
- Moments of Suspended Disbelief
- Horror 14.2
- When a painting moves… something must be rotten!
- Michael Joaquín Grey
- Talia Chetrit
- Colonialism & the Politics of Cultural Consumption
- Branding Ideologies
- The Exploration of Self
Her curatorial research focuses on recuperative art histories, abstraction as experimental geography, and post-global-decolonial curatorial methodologies. Today’s curators can be informed and have expertise, but they should also be educators and entertainers Carla understand these importan aspect. To contact Carla Acevedo Yates for exhibition in or out of Puerto Rico you can email her at: carlaacevedoyates@gmail.com or see her web at: carlaacevedo.com
Vito Mercado, the creator of HA! Music, has focused his career as a Promoter, Festival Producer, Manager, Festival Consultant and Developer. His company, established since 1996, embarked on a mission to make people dance while building Puerto Rico as the Electronic Dance Music epicenter of the region. Ha! Hidden Agenda was born in 1998 out of the idea of organizing, developing and promoting all styles of electronic music in the island, and generating enough interest to bring proper international talents.
Electric Daisy Carnival, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2015. Photo by SakoGraphy.
Vito is responsible for many of the mayor music festival events in Puerto Rico, such as EDC Puerto Rico Festival, Movement Getaway, We the Future Festival, Electric Holiday, Coors Light Sound Fields, Coors Light Circothic, and other events with thousands of local and international guests. Vito Mercado said: “The quality of productions is superior every year, and the increasing size of the talents and audiences is our fuel to keep doing what we LOVE. It has become an attractive business for some, but our vision sees beyond and our undisputed experience should be the shield of our success.” “Constantly evolving and looking forward to the next step, we believe our synergy will help us reach the unimaginable goal…”
Skrillex (left) & Vito (center) in a festival Stage
Vito and his HA Music tribe, Analiz Zayas his wife, Jorge Ramos and Jesús M. Quiñones, are acclaimed for building electronic music upon Puerto Rican culture and rhythms. They also help produce local DJs, helping transform artists from local to international careers. Some of their collaborations include artist such as Caleb Calloway, DANO, LVST, Emiliano Martini, and 10 days.
With the success that Vito and his tribe have had, we’re ecstatic to see them share their talent across continents fusing electronic music and other rhythms, as in ‘All Together As One’.
Vito feels that: [Ha=Truth] …and is For Believers Only!
written and edited by FTLOB
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