LOS ANGELES: International singing sensation and “cuchi-cuchi girl” Charo is back on the Billboard charts with her latest dance club hit, España Cañi, the traditional bullfighting song which is played at nearly all bullfights. A huge hit at dance clubs around the world, the video España Cañi, Dance Don’t Bullfight, is the singer’s protest against bullfighting, which is still practiced in many cities across Spain and Latin America.
Charo, like Pamela Anderson, Paul McCartney and Pink, is a member of PETA, an organization that speaks out against animal cruelty. Charo has written the mayor of her hometown of Murcia, Spain, urging the city to join Barcelona and 44 other towns and cities in Catalonia, which have voted against using any public funds to promote bullfighting, including Olot, which has the second oldest bullring in Spain. Some cities in Spain, like Calonge, Tossa de Mar, Vilamacolum, and La Vajol, have outlawed all bullfighting and bull runs. In Mexico, bullfights have been banned in Jakapa.
On behalf of PETA, Charo has also written the Prime Minister of Spain urging a national ban. A Gallup poll found that 72% of Spaniards had “no interest” in bullfighting in 2006, up from 54% in the 1980s. This year, the national Spanish network RETV, has announced that bullfighting will not be part of its obligatory programming since it is harmful for children.
“I am from Spain and I’m very proud of my country and my culture,” says Charo. “However, Spain is a very modern country now and should stop the cruel, primitive and barbaric practice of Bullfighting. I hope all my countrymen and women will unite with me to petition the Spanish government to ban the killing of bulls for spectacle at bullfights in the entire country.”
In the video, a young bull named Manolo has a nightmare about being sent to die in a bullfight when he grows up. Manolo makes a daring escape from his ranch and with the help of a fortune teller (Charo), embarks on a great adventure to end bullfighting and save his herd. The video is produced and directed by World Of Wonder.
España Cañí’s original version is produced and arranged by Charo and Joe DiBiasi. Remixes are produced and arranged by Peitor Angell, Twisted Dee and Julian Marsh. Remix supervisors are Peitor Angell and Loren Chaidez. The CD is a Universal Music production.
Charo is an international icon and world renowned guitarist and award-winning recording artist who has for decades been entertaining audiences around the world with her unique brand of hilarious comedy and unparalleled guitar playing, singing and performance skills. For more information, log on to www.charo.com.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), with more than 2 million members and supporters, is the largest animal rights organization in the world. PETA focuses on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment and sporting industries. PETA works through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.
World of Wonder (WOW) was founded by Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey in 1992. Since then the company has amassed a library of branded properties across all platforms, including such well known films as Party Monster, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Inside Deep Throat, and television shows Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, Million Dollar Listing, the upcoming RuPaul's Drag Race, and entertainment blog The WOW Report(www.worldofwonder.net).
WOODLAND HILLS: The Imagen Foundation’s President Helen Hernandez can add publisher to her resume now that she’s co-founded Inside Latino Entertainment & Media, the only English-language business magazine for and about Latinos in entertainment and media.
Published quarterly, ILE features a variety of articles covering prolific filmmakers to super agents to exceptional talent behind the scenes, as well as columns written by industry insiders, including Irma La Bomba, whom Hernandez lured out of retirement to write a series of humorous essays regarding her take on show biz.
Be sure to check out the magazine Web site for interesting and inspiring articles on such movers and shakers as, among others, award-winning filmmaker David Valdes (In The Line of Fire, Unforgiven, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) who offers his views on breaking into Hollywood and thriving once you get there, as well as an interview with Belinda Menendez, the president of NBC Universal International Television Distribution as she juggles her personal life and professional life dealing with more than 250 countries worldwide.
The magazine, co-published by Jerry Hemsworth of HMH Media Inc., can be reviewed on its Web site: www.insidelatinoentertainment.com. where guests can get a free one-year subscription online or purchase the actual magazine for an annual subscription fee of only $24.95. The Web site also features a Career Center and a Calendar of Events.
HOLLYWOOD: Just a few more days before the debut of Rick Najera (Latinologues) and Alison Swan’s Christmas movie Nothing Like the Holidays that hits theaters December 12. The film, written by Najera and Swan, features an impressive cast that includes Elizabeth Pena, John Leguizamo, Debra Messing, Alfred Molina, Freddy Rodriguez, Jay Hernandez and Luis Guzman. Don’t miss it.
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Rose....
Thank you very much for the ILE mention! What a very nice surprise...
Best,
Jerri
Posted by: Jerri Hemsworth | December 11, 2008 at 03:46 PM