En estas ultimas semanas hemos escuchado muchos rumores sobre la separación del grupo Camila. Cuando lo escuche no quise creerlo ya que Camila es una de mis agrupaciones musicales favoritas. Como ya conocemos esta banda de rock Mexicana consiste de el vocalista, compositor y productor Mario Domm, vocalista Samuel Parra y guitarrista Pablo Hurtado los cuales comenzaron su agrupación en 2005. Estos talentos muchachos nos han regalado bellas canciones como "Todo Cambio", "Abrazame", y uno de sus últimos hits "Mientes".
Mario, Samo, y Pablo enviaron un comunicado en el cual desmienten su presunta declaración de separación y explican que tomarán un tiempo de descanso.
Camila le había expresado a varios medios su deseo de tener un período de receso, pero su comentario al parecer fue sacado de contexto ya que varios medios informaron que se separaron. Camila ha enviado una carta que Primera Hora ha reproducido tal como la escribieron sus integrantes:
“Debido a todos los malentendidos que han surgido el día de hoy a partir de la manipulación de ciertas entrevistas que hemos otorgado, nos permitimos aclarar la situación del grupo al cual desde hace más de cinco años pertenecemos.
Si bien es cierto que en una entrevista otorgada a ciertos periodistas hemos manifestado la necesidad de tener un periodo de receso para quienes participamos en este proyecto, es completamente falso el hecho de que se esté contemplando una disolución del grupo.
Como todo el mundo sabe, el grupo Camila al que pertenecemos Mario, Samo y Pablo, se encuentra en un excelente momento en el cual contamos con una exitosa gira que contempla toda la República Mexicana, Latinoamérica y Estados Unidos durante los siguientes meses. Igualmente, en las semanas pasadas realizamos la filmación del vídeo de nuestro quinto sencillo “De mí” y la promoción correspondiente.
Es únicamente por ello, que como cualquier persona, hemos contemplado tomar un período vacacional durante el lapso intermedio entre el fin de la gira “Dejarte de Amar” y la producción de nuestro siguiente material discográfico.
Nunca se ha hablado, en ningún momento, de desintegrar el grupo. Una vez más les reiteramos nuestro agradecimiento por su constante apoyo hacia nuestra carrera, por lo que les agradeceríamos rectificar la información que se está proporcionando a través de sus diferentes medios de comunicación”.
Me alegra mucho saber que este maravilloso grupo solo esta tomando unas merecidas vacaciones y que pronto regresaran para deleitarnos con nueva música.
2011 is a very busy year for Mexican Pop group sensation Camila! Still ingulfed in the success of their album Dejarte de Amar which was released in February 2010, Camila shows no signs of stopping.
This past February, as the nominees for the 2011 Latin Billboard Awards were anounced, it revealed Camila's astonishing 10 nominations! Without a doubt, I am sure Camila will walk out of the awards ceremony, which takes place on April 28th at the BankUnited Center in Miami, a true winner. These are the nominations:
Artista Latino del Año
Hot Latin Songs, Artista del Año, Dúo o Grupo
Top Latin Albums, Disco del Año Dejarte de Amar
Top Latin Albums, Artista del Año, Dúo o Grupo
Latin Pop Airplay, Artista del Año, Dúo o Grupo
Latin Pop Albums, Disco del Año "Dejarte de Amar"
Latin Pop Albums, Artista del Año, Dúo o Grupo
Latin Digital Albums, Disco del Año "Dejarte de Amar"
Latin Pop Airplay, Tema del Año "Mientes"
Latin Pop Airplay, Tema del Año "Alejate de Mí
Make sure to tune in on 4/28. The Latin Billboard Awards will be produced and broadcasted live by Telemundo.
And if you do not want to miss these boys in concert, here is the most recent list of confirmed perfomances for the remainder of the year. We will keep you posted as new dates are announced!
Premio Lo Nuestro - Thursday, February 17, 2011 on Univision at 8:00pm
It’s almost here! We are only hours away. On Thursday, the unveiling of the winners of Premio Lo Nuestro , an award show given to Latin Music. During the ceremony we will see Ricky Martin, Camila and Juanes who will all be performing and will get the party started!
Juan Luis Guerra, the Dominican Bachata King, is the artist with the most nominations for this year’s 23rd edition. He has a total of six nominations and among them are best male tropical artist and best merengue tropical artist. He is followed by Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias who has five nominations, Puerto Ricans Wisin y Yandel, Banda El Recodo from Mexico, and the Dominican-American Bachata singer Prince Royce.
Premio Lo Nuestro honors the most outstanding artists of the Spanish recording industry in 35 categories of the five most popular Latin genres: pop, tropical, regional Mexican, rock and urban. In addition, they give awards for best video, artist and collaboration of the year. Competing for Artist of the Year in Premio Lo Nuestro are Aventura, Banda el Recodo, Juanes, and Shakira.The gala is being hosted by actress and comedienne Angelica Vale and actor and television presenter Jaime Camil from the American Airlines Arena in downtown Miami and will be preceded by a parade of artists on the red carpet. The telecast of the event will begin at 7:00 pm (23:00 GMT) on Univision. In addition to Ricky Martin, Juanes, and Camila, the show’s organizers also announced that Mana and Cristian Castro will be performing. Four of the six nominations for Juan Luis Guerra, who in 2010 won three Latin Grammys and has a total of 12, are in the tropical genre. He is also listed as a finalist in the pop category sharing the nomination with Enrique Iglesias for their collaboration this past year.
Meanwhile, Enrique Iglesias is also nominated in the categories Album of the year, Male artist and song of the year in the pop genre, and shares another nomination with reggaeton singers Winsin & Yandel with their collaboration this year. Other artists nominated include La Original Banda El Limon, Alejandro Fernandez, the Mexican trio Camila, Juanes and Alejandro Sanz, who on Sunday won the Grammy for best Latin pop álbum for "Paradise Express". Winners of Premio Lo Nuestro 2011 were chosen by the public on the Internet, during a vote conducted between February and December 24, 2010.
This year, Camila has been nominated in the Premio Lo Nuestro Awards for "Best Record of the Year", and "Best Group of the Year"
About Camila
Founded by multiple award-winning composer and producer Mario Domm (Torreón Coahuila), Camila was born one day while recording Reyli’s first album when Samo (Veracruz) was called in to do the back-ups. When tested, his timbre, power and tuning impressed Mario so much that he invited him to work in a new ensemble where their voices would compliment each other. “I heard Salmo through the speakers and they were booming because of his vocal power,” remembers Mario.
Having just one piano, they decided to add a guitar. The first to come to auditions was Pablo Hurtado (San Luis Potosí). “With just one year left to graduate, I received a call from Mario inviting me to an audition in his studio,” says Pablo. “I went to the studio and there I met Mario and Samo. The sang ‘Abrázame’ with just the guitar and then told me, ‘OK, now you play, join us.” We went at a number of songs for a few hours, and two days later they called me and invited me to be part of the project, as a fellow band member”.
The rest of the story would write itself live, backing up compositions for a first album that would go on to win multiple awards, Todo Cambió. Parallel to this and in a curious way, Camila’s name would fortunately come up to be filled with meaning, thanks to its alliance to Sony Music and Westwood Talent. As such, with the thought of doing 30 concerts in the Mexican Republic during 2007, Camila did not imagine that the success of its singles Abrázame, Coleccionista de Canciones and Todo Cambió would take them to more than 300 performances over the course of two years. “To arrive at a place where people don’t know your face, but they know your songs, is a privilege; as well as playing twice at the Metropolitan and the Auditorio Nacional, to sold out crowds in less than two months,” says Mario.
Without a doubt, the formula to this trio is how well they compliment each other: “I admire Mario a lot for his way of writing songs, for his perfectionism when he produces and how attentive he is to everything,” explains Pablo. “I think he is a genius. Samo is a virtuoso singer with amazing feeling. Despite not knowing music theory, he has the intuition and the ear that allow him to create incredible harmonies. He is very creative and has a huge vocal range.”
Having experiences in the Nokia theaters in New York and Los Angeles, and the Coliseo in Puerto Rico, all over Central America and at the Barquisimeto, in Venezuela (where they packed 100 thousand people), in multiple forums in Colombia, at the Ferro and the Gran Rex in Argentina, and finally at the Viña del Mar Festival in Chile, Camila never dreamed of a better closing to their cycle: “We took home the two Antorchas and the Gaviota! We were supposed to perform three songs and ended up doing nine,” they recall.
Keeping in line with the title of their song, Todo Cambió, life changed for Camila during their inaugural tour. This is how Pablo remembers it: “I went from a sedentary life to seeing myself involved in a tornado of activities and emotions. I traveled more than I had traveled in my entire life. I have learned so much. Now I enjoy this wonderful opportunity to make music with talented people and I have the luxury to live doing what I love most.” Camila Band Members
Mario Domm
Having total consciousness of his mission in life, this composer and producer knows how to always invite reflection on love from innovative points of view. This is what Kalimba, Reyli, Alejandra Guzmán, Paulina Rubio, Alejandro Fernández and Thalia believe, having contracted him as musical creative on numerous recordings. In the same way, working on these and other projects, like Sin Bandera, Domm has become one of the most prominent producers in Mexico, something that he particularly highlights in Camila.
Having the philosophy of not abusing technological resources for the sake of believing that a song pretty much births itself, and that being a good producer means being able to tell that fine line between both worlds, Mario says, “The protagonists of each album should be the composers and the singers, not the producers.” This idea has made him winner of the following awards: Six SACM (Song Most Played on the Radio) Awards for different compositions written for Alejandra Guzmán, Kalimba and Camila; two Billboard awards; three Lo Nuestro awards; five GRAMMY nominations in four different categories (engineer, producer, composer, and musician); four MTV awards and five ASCAP awards for the Most Played Latin Pop Song on US Radio.
Samo
Choir member at a church from the time he was five-years-old, Samo saw how each Sunday that space of Veracruz transformed into his very own Auditorio Nacional. Pushed by his parents and siblings, he later aimed to become an opera singer, and finally was recognized as one of the 100 Best Voices of Mexico in a talent contest. As such he arrived in DF. He was back-up singer for artists like Reyli, which he met Mario Domm through. Presently he is vocal figure and he is evolving as a composer:
“My career as an author is on the rise,” he explains, “the first tracks I have ever coauthored have been professionally recorder with Camila, yet there are other singers that are recording my songs. The fact that Ednita Nazario in Puerto Rico and the United States; and Diego Schoening in Mexico selected tracks that I wrote, not only for the repertoire of each of their latest albums, but also that as first singles, they have had a favorable response from the public, gives me the clear proof that I am doing things right. Also, the fact that Gloria Trevi, Christian Chávez and Yuri worked with me to choose songs written by me is another indication that I have all the talent to become a more well rounded artist for the public.
Pablo Hurtado
A graduated producer and audio engineer from the Fermatta School of Music, Pablo was born in San Luis Potosí, at the heart of a musical family. He started playing the piano at age five. His father introduced him to the guitar during adolescence and thanks to The Beatles, Brahms and Andrés Segovia, he learned the love for sound quality. He went on to have cover bands and play in musical theater. At age 21, in dire circumstances, he arrived at DF to study his bachelor degree, which he finished with a scholarship for his high achievements. This is how he describes his role in Camila:
“Mi role within Camila is more than just ‘the guitarist’. I make all the arrangements for the acoustic and electric guitars on all the albums, working as co-producer alongside Mario Domm. Additionally, I am co-author or co-composer on some songs. On the personal end, my partners tell me I am the balance of the group”.
