The Prophet of Music | The Wonderful Blind Man | The Black Corsair of the Chambelona
This trilogy (Arsenio Rodríguez: the Prophet of Music, Arsenio Rodriguez: the Marvelous Blindman, Arsenio Rodríguez III) is about the life of Arsenio Rodríguez, a Cuban singer-songwriter. Both his personal and professional backgrounds are treated in the novels.
Jairo Grijalba deepens in the beginning of the 20th century in Cuba, as well as how Arsenio Rodríguez gets to know his to-be-companions during his musical career.
Furthermore, the period setting is well established, besides the treating of Cuban social inequality and the running of the musical world of those years.
Arsenio Rodríguez, charmed by the power of music, manages not to be limited by his blindness. Thanks to the support of his friends, the artist becomes “The marvelous blind man”, one of the best Cuban artists ever.
The artist makes it real for some of his songs, such as “No me llores más” and “Hay fuego en el 23”, to arrive in New York and Los Angeles. These hits are still heard nowadays.
RELEVANT FACTS: Jairo Grijalba Ruiz has made a deep fieldwork to get all the different data on Arsenio Rodríguez’s life. Moreover, he also reflects in the trilogy his own experience in the Latin-American music scene.
AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: TV Series, Film, TV Miniserie, TV Movie
AVAILABLE LANGUAGES: Spanish.
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