Arturo Sandoval
Biography
Arturo Sandoval is a Cuban American jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer. Sandoval, while still in Cuba, was influenced by jazz musicians Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, and Dizzy Gillespie, finally meeting Gillespie later in 1977. Gillespie became a mentor and colleague, playing with Sandoval in concerts in Europe and Cuba and later featuring him in the United Nations Orchestra. Sandoval defected while touring with Gillespie in 1990, and he became a naturalized citizen in 1998. His life was the subject of the film For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000), starring Andy García. Sandoval has won ten Grammy Awards and been nominated nineteen times; he has also received six Billboard Awards and one Emmy Award. On August 8, 2013, President Barack Obama announced that Sandoval would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Known For
The Kennedy Center Honors
Lo + plus
The Grammys
For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story
Keep On Keepin' On
Celia Cruz | ¡Azúcar!
Henry Mancini: 100 at the Hollywood Bowl
A MusiCares Tribute To Barbra Streisand
All Movies (13)
- Henry Mancini: 100 at the Hollywood Bowl2024 · as Self
- Arturo Sandoval - Jazzopen Stuttgart 20232023 · as Self
- Cosmo Life2021 · as Self
- Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story2020 · as Self
- Marilyn and I2019 · as Self
- Dr John . feat.Arturo Sandoval & Sarah Morrow -Live At Avio Session Basel2014 · as trumpet
- Brownie Speaks2014 · as Self
- Keep On Keepin' On2014 · as Self
- A MusiCares Tribute To Barbra Streisand2011 · as Self - Performer
- Celia Cruz | ¡Azúcar!2004 · as Self
- For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story2000 · as Funcionario
- A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba1989 · as Self - Trumpet
- Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall1989 · as Self - Trumpets, Fluglehorn
All TV Shows (3)
- Lo + plus1995 · as Self
- The Kennedy Center Honors1978 · as Self - Honoree
- The Grammys1959 · as Self