EMILIO ARAGÓN. Director, musician, actor. (born in Havana) ** Emilio Aragón, actor, director.
Emilio Aragón Álvarez, is a Spanish director, musician, actor, presenter and producer.
Emilio Aragón Álvarez was born 16 April 1959 in Havana, Cuba.
He was the original presenter of the Spanish game show VIP Noche, which was a popular 1990s game show on the Spanish Telecinco network. He later hosted and directed the first season of El gran juego de la oca on Antena 3, also in Spain. Since 2006 he has been the president of the television network La Sexta .
Miliki (Emilio’s father) and his two brothers embark bound to Cuba with a four month contract in 1945 that, with their starting to work in a whole new media from the very beginning of its existence – the television media – transformed into a life of work and success in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela and the United States during 27 years.
His father, Emilio Aragón Bermúdez or Miliki, was a clown, along with his grandfather Emilio Aragón Foureaux, known as Emig. He began his career in the program The Great Circus of TVE in 1977, using stage name Milikito, with his father, his uncle Gabriel Aragón Bermúdez (Gaby), and his cousin Alfonso Aragon Sac (Fofito).
He has been invited to conduct the major and most prestigious Symphonic orchestras in Spain, being commissioned works such as his latest and most recently premiered (January,2011) Cantatafor Baritone,Choir and Orchestra “Largo Suspiro de Vida” (Long Sigh of Life) with text from Nobel Prize winner José Saramago. In the year 2007 he produced his first approach to the film world producing “Carlitos y el campo de los sueños” (Carlitos and the Field of Dreams), film that has achieved numerous International Awards around the world. Musician, scriptwriter, actor, producer.
Since his beginnings as an artist, Emilio seems to interpret life on a musical scale. This his how the first time he sets foot on a stage as a professional he does it representing a mute character and his only link to the world is an instrument. From that moment on, Emilio Aragón has turned into one of the most versatile and prestigious artist in Spain. His work develops with the same intensity and quality both in front as well as behind the cameras producing, writing, and directing scripted series for television with great success. In Classical music, among many other projects, he was commissioned by Plácido Domingo to orchestrate songs from his most recent work “Pasión Española” (Spanish Passion), winner of a Grammy Award.
Emilio serves as the President of the Stanza Foundation, which promotes projects and activities geared towards strengthening music in children, including productions like the CD recording “The Brave Tin Soldier” and the ballet “Snow White.” Board member of the Dales la Palabra Foundation that organized the construction Tres Olivos, the first integrated school in Spain for children with hearing disabilities. Member of the Intermon Oxfam advisory board.
Filmography.
A Night in Old Mexico (director, music composer and producer) (2013)
Pájaros de papel (director, writer, music composer and producer) (2010)
Carlitos y el Campo de los Sueños (music composer and producer) (2008).
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The Cuban History, Hollywood.
Arnoldo Varona, Editor.