Ari Pinelli
Vocalist
Born: Havana, June 9, 1976
There was a time when Cuban singers owned Latin music. This was the golden age of the voice in Habana, in the years before World War II. The young and very handsome Ari Pinelli, male vocalist for 3 de la Habana, is part of the new promise that singers both male and female from Cuba can bring all that back, but this time to enthusiastic international audiences.
Ari, brother of Germán Pinelli, remembers being surrounded as a child by the classics of Cuban rhythm and melody. Says Ari: "When my brother and I were growing up in Havana, the family was squeezed into a very small apartment with only one bedroom. But my dad used to sing in that tiny apartment with a quartet called Los Cañas. You could say, I was 'brainwashed' to sing. That was my father's greatest gift to me."
Ari doesn't regret a minute of it. "Growing up in Havana had its bitter moments along with the sweet. But we always had the music – whether it was some mother in the kitchen cooking with the radio on and the window open, or a group down on the street corner practicing a new tune, or some grandfather next door singing the traditional songs. In Havana, you wake up to music, you work to music, and you go to sleep with music."
Ari initially cared more about sport than song, and he was a fiercely competitive volleyball player at school.
Says Ari: "I thought I was a pretty good athlete, however, I don't think I could have escaped a career on the stage if I tried in that family. Now I love my life in music and am always learning something new, even from the legendary singers that my father and mother heard and sometimes knew personally decades ago. Those greats of Cuban music had active careers that lasted, in many cases, their entire lives."
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Band Members
Germán
director, guitar, vocals
Ana
vocals
Arì
vocals
Tirso
bongo-percussion
Magela
bass guitar
Maykel
congas
History
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