Descemer happily dances...

Descemer happily dances. He surely enjoys his latest victory. He is so Bueno (good) in his musical compositions, that the news should not have surprised anyone when in the 15th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, he emerged as the biggest winner of the night .

Bailando, a collaboration of this illustrious habanero with Enrique Iglesias and the guys of Gente de Zona found no rival in three categories of the categories which rewards the Latin Academy of Recording: Best Urban Performance, Best Urban Song and Best Song of the Year.

Registered in the latest album of the Spanish singer, entitled Sex and Love (Universal Music / Republic Records), Bailando was not, however, the only piece of Descemer who competed in the prestigious event. There was also Loco, another megahit in which he shared authorship with Iglesias.

Apparently, we are facing a victorious duet in these conflicts, as a theme in the style of Cuando me enamoro, interpreted by Enrique and Juan Luis Guerra, also proved invincible among the songs that in 2011 competed to become the outstanding of the year while he received the honors of ASCAP (acronym for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) American nonprofit organization that has just awarded another hit signed by Cuban and interpreted by the son of Julio Iglesias and Isabel Preysler: Lloro por ti.

Undoubtedly the wanted arranger, who graduated from classical guitar at the Amadeo Roldan Conservatory in Havana, has the gift of song, of fascinating by the versatility of his powerful music, of conquering the audience and the performers. And the "formula" he uses is quite "Simple": to incessantly drink from the immortal legacy he inherited from amazing artists like Benny Moré, César Portillo de la Luz, Giraldo Piloto, Isolina Carrillo, José Antonio Méndez, Juan Formell, Angel Diaz, Manuel Corona, María Teresa Vera, Marta Valdes, Meme Solis, Miguel Matamoros, Nico Saquito, Pepe Sánchez, Sindo Garay, Silvio Rodriguez, Noel Nicola, Pablo Milanes ... and return it with scented of the XXI century in the form of words and music, in a very personal way, filling with sensitivity and Cuban daily stories of people around him.

The owner of beautiful titles like Ciego amor, No me digas que no, Arenas de soledad, Ten paciencia y Yo no sé vivir (the latter two interpreted by Thalia), is pleased both to write lyrics in four hands that guiding himself only by his own inspiration. Ah, yes: spirituality has to be right "road", otherwise he leaves aside the song, as he has confessed more than once. "To compose I can not feel empty, my feelings must be in order," he says.

"It's fascinating that time of creation, even when you share it with another artist, although there are people who prefer to compose alone ... Sure, it´s their loss    . At least I have enjoyed when I have written a song with Enrique Iglesias, Israel Rojas (Buena Fe), Waldo Mendoza, Leoni Torres, Baby Lores or Romeo Santos.

"I have also had the great luck that very famous figures show an interest in singing what I propose, as has happened with Juan Luis Guerra, Marco Antonio Solis, Wisin y Yandel, Kumbia Kings, Luz Casal, Ana Torroja, Samo (Camila), Nohelia, Luis Enrique, Ana Bárbara ... There are many types of experiences and for me are all important and vital ", has expressed the also winner of a Goya Award for being responsible for collaborating with the soundtrack of the film Habana blues, an experience he recently repeated with Siete Días en La Habana (Seven Days in Havana).

Before he had discovered how to make songs for the seventh art when the Mexican filmmaker Alberto Cortes convened him to conceive a piece like Violeta for one of the two films in which he collaborated with the director Violeta y Corazón del tiempo).Thanks to Violeta he got in touch with another great of the Cuban music: the now defunct Fernando Alvarez.

From that nice relationship that arose between them was born the fabulous Sé feliz , an album that hit the market in 2008 after the death of the extraordinary bolerista, despite its 11 titles, which honor the best poetry, were devised in 90s, in a definitive way update the tradition of the genre through the philosophy of their writings and of sound achieved.

But by that time, 2008, Descemer Bueno had already traveled the world, from the moment he integrated groups such as Estado de Ánimo (with Elmer Ferrer, X Alfonso and Roberto Carcassés) and Columna B, in the United States, where he also joins to the popular Yerba Buena. From this union came the applauded phonogram President Alien (nominated for a Grammy award in 2005), whose songs, mostly belong to him.

Descemer has always been convinced that Yerba Buena, which he co-founded with the producer Andres Levin, Xiomara Laugart and Cucú Diamond, changed Latin music in America. Indeed, songs such as the so much diffused Guajira, opened many doors (to the point that the Pepsi, for example, took it as its commercial for one year).

Over time, Bueno returned to his beloved Cuba without abandoning his other passions: record producer, working for both international stars and renowned Cuban artists: Haydee Milanes, William Vivanco, Yusa, Luna Manzanares, Waldo Mendoza ...

Because he is among that group of artists who never rests, he also decided to prove to the world of music, and in 2013 he accompanied his friend Kelvis Ochoa and choreographer of the National Ballet of Cuba Eduardo Blanco, to pursue a colorful show inspired in the legendary character from Havana El Caballero de Paris.

However, for this father of two children, Lucia and Desi, "family comes first." However, he does not take very seriously issues related to the popularity: "Success is a term that touches dilettantes, not me. I do not believe in my fame because everything happened so fast." Certainly he does well, although I am convinced that this musician will make much more history.