{"id":156228,"date":"2021-04-12T06:01:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T10:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=156228"},"modified":"2021-04-12T10:12:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T14:12:12","slug":"happy-birthday-rafael-solano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/04\/12\/happy-birthday-rafael-solano\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Rafael Solano!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"546\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rafael-Solano-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-156267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rafael-Solano-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Rafael-Solano-Diario-Libre-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dominicans around the world celebrated the 90th birthday of Rafael Solano on Saturday, 10 April 2021, enjoying his compositions written over the past seven decades immortalized in a documentary on his life made available on YouTube for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Documental Solano is by film producer Juan Basanta and his daughter, journalist Patricia Solano. It tells the artistic life of maestro Rafael Solano is a tribute to the singer-songwriter known for &#8220;Por Amor,&#8221; the most iconic Dominican song. The documentary was released in November 2018 but by making it free on YouTube, Dominicans shared it and rendered tribute to the outstanding Dominican musician. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film is an audiovisual account of the Puerto Plata piano player and composer&#8217;s artistic career through the entire generation of artists that emerged in the late 1950s and sung his compositions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The documentary was co-directed by Solano&#8217;s daughter Patricia, with filmmaker Juan Basanta. It has won several awards: it was chosen in New York as the best documentary at the 2019 Dominican Film Festival and won the Iris and La Silla awards in the country that same year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>View the documentary on the life and works of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o2mduAQAQ_4&amp;t=2s\">Rafael Solano <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 April 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominicans around the world celebrated the 90th birthday of Rafael Solano on Saturday, 10 April 2021, enjoying his compositions written over the past seven decades immortalized in a documentary on his life made available on YouTube for free. Documental Solano is by film producer Juan Basanta and his daughter, journalist Patricia Solano. It tells the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/04\/12\/happy-birthday-rafael-solano\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156228"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156268,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156228\/revisions\/156268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}