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Mayo may refer to:

Places[link]

Ireland

• County Mayo
• Mayo (Dáil Éireann constituency)
• Mayo (UK Parliament constituency)
• Mayo (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
• Mayo East (Dáil Éireann constituency)
• Mayo North (Dáil Éireann constituency)
• Mayo North and West (Dáil Éireann constituency)
• Mayo South (Dáil Éireann constituency)
• Mayo West (Dáil Éireann constituency)
• Mayo, County Mayo, a village

United Kingdom

• Mayo, County Down, a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland
• East Mayo (UK Parliament constituency)
• North Mayo (UK Parliament constituency)
• South Mayo (UK Parliament constituency)
• West Mayo (UK Parliament constituency)

Australia

• Division of Mayo, an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia

Canada

• Mayo, Quebec
• Mayo, Yukon

Côte d'Ivoire

• Mayo, Côte d'Ivoire

Thailand

• Mayo District, Pattani Province

United States

• Mayo, Florida
• Mayo, Maryland
• Mayo, South Carolina

Numerous places

• Mayo River (disambiguation), a number of rivers called "Mayo"

People[link]

• Sardar Tufail Ahmad Khan Mayo, a Pakistani politician
• Tariq Shabbir Khan Mayo, a Pakistani legislator
• Abdul Ghafoor Khan Mayo, a provincial minister in Punjab
• Arthur Mayo (1840–1920), recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Barry Mayo, radio executive
• Bob Mayo, (1951–2004), American musician
• Charles Herbert Mayo (1845–1929), antiquarian
• Charles Horace Mayo (1865–1939), physician and co-founder of the Mayo Clinic
• Ed Mayo, Secretary General of Co-operatives UK
• Elton Mayo (1880–1949), psychologist and sociologist
• Gilmar Mayo (born 1969), Colombian high jumper
• Helen Mayo (1878–1967), women's health pioneer
• Iban Mayo (born 1977), professional bicycle racer
• James Mayo, pen name of Stephen Coulter, (born 1914), English author and journalist
• Jerod Mayo (born 1986), American football player for the New England Patriots
• Katherine Mayo(1867–1940), American writer and journalist
• Manolito Tolentino Mayo (1955–1983), Philippine artist
• O. J. Mayo (born 1987), American basketball player
• Paul Mayo (born 1981), English footballer
• Simon Mayo (born 1958), disc jockey
• Virginia Mayo (1920–2005), American film actress
• Whitman Mayo (1930–2001), American television actor
• William Mayo (civil engineer) (c. 1685–1744), the civil engineer who laid out the city of Richmond, Virginia
• William B. Mayo, (1860–1944), chief power engineer of Ford Motor Company
• William James Mayo (1861–1939), co-founder of the Mayo Clinic
• William Worrall Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic
• Thomas Mayo Brewer (1814–1880), American naturalist
• Richmond Mayo-Smith (1854–1901), American economist
• John C.C. Mayo (1864–1914), Coal baron and educator
• Mayo Okamoto (born 1974), Japanese singer-songwriter
• Mayo Smith (1915–1977), American baseball player and manager
• Mayo Thompson (born 1944), American musician and visual artist
• Richard Mayo (disambiguation), multiple people

Fictional characters[link]

• Mayo Kagura, the protagonist of the light novel My-HiME Destiny
• Mayo Sakaki, a character of the series Fushigi Yuugi
• Patsy Mayo, fictional character played by Mimi Kuzyk on the television series Hill Street Blues

Other[link]

• Mayonnaise, sometimes abbreviated to mayo
• Mayo Clinic, a medical center in Rochester, Minnesota, United States
• Mayo Medical School, an American medical school that is part of the Mayo Clinic and the Mayo College of Medicine
• Mayo High School, a public high school in Rochester, Minnesota, United States
• Mayo College, a secondary educational institution in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India
• Mayo GAA, an inter-county Gaelic Athletic Association team
• Mayo people, an Indigenous ethnic group who live in the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Sonora
• Mayo Rajputs or Meo Rajputs, an Indian ethnic tribe of Rajputs also spelled as meo
• Mayo language, spoken by the Mayo people
• Mayo (TV series), a BBC television series first broadcast in 2006
• Earl of Mayo, a title in the Peerage of Ireland
• Mayo Hospital, in Lahore, Pakistan
• The Mexican American Youth Organization
• Project Mayo, an open source project by DivX, Inc.
• Mayo, the Spanish word for May

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Silvio Rodríguez
Background information
Birth name	Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez
Born	(1946-11-29) November 29, 1946 (age 65)
Origin	San Antonio de los Baños, Havana Province, Cuba
Genres	Nueva trova
Occupations	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Guitar, vocals
Years active	1967–present
Website	www.silviorodriguez.org

Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez (born November 29, 1946 in San Antonio de los Baños) is a Cuban musician, and a leader of the nueva trova movement.

He is considered Cuba's best known folk singer and known for his highly eloquent and symbolic lyrics. Many of his songs have become classics in Latin American music, such as Ojalá, Playa Girón, Unicornio and La maza. He has released nearly 20 albums.

Rodríguez, musically and politically, is a symbol of the Latin American left wing. His lyrics are notably introspective. His songs combine romanticism, love (even eroticism), revolutionary politics, and idealism.

Biography[link]

Rodríguez was born on November 29, 1946 in San Antonio de los Baños, a fertile valley in Havana Province known for its tobacco crop. He was raised in a family of poor farmers. His father, Víctor Dagoberto Rodríguez Ortega, was a farmer and amateur poet who supported socialist causes. His mother, Argelia Domínguez León, was a house wife. On many occasions Rodríguez has spoken how his love of music was developed by his mother, who would pass time singing boleros and songs from Santiago. Although Rodríguez had an uncle who played the bass, his mother had a far greater influence. Later, she also collaborated with him on a few musical works.

When the Revolution led by Fidel Castro triumphed in January 1959, Rodríguez was only 13 years old, and, like most Cubans of his generation, became involved in the new Revolutionary enthusiasm. He participated in the Literacy Campaign held in 1961, and then started working as a comics designer in a magazine. During this period a friend of his, Lázaro Fundora, taught him how to play the guitar.

Guitar playing took a major role in his life while he was doing his military service in the army, during 1964, but it wasn't until 1967, with his first television experience, that he started to become well known and influential among Cuban revolutionary youth. With pro-revolution yet very independent lyrics (together with his very informal dress code), Rodríguez soon attracted the animosity of some members of the new Culture Ministry, which was devoted to the eradication of the United States' influence in Cuban culture. In this context, a very important role was played by the cultural institution Casa de las Américas and its then director Haydée Santamaría, the former a respected revolutionary who participated in the Moncada barracks assault of 1953 and sister of Abel Santamaría, who was tortured and killed after the failure of the assault. Haydée Santamaría became a protective mother-figure of the young composers and of several of his colleagues at the time. Casa de las Américas became the home not only for the new Cuban trovadores but also for many other Latin Americans on the left. It was in this institution that Rodríguez met Pablo Milanés, and Noel Nicola, who along with Rodriguez would become the most famous nueva trova singers and composers.

In 1969, for almost five months, he worked as part of the crew on the fishing boat Playa Girón, and during this fertile episode he wrote 62 songs, among which are the famous "Ojalá" and "Playa Girón." The lyrics and music of these songs became a book named Canciones del Mar. In 1976, he decided to join Cuban troops in Angola, playing for the soldiers.

After more than 40 years of artistic work, Rodríguez has now written a vast number of songs and poems (said to be between 500 and more than one thousand), many of which have never been set to music and probably never will be. Although his musical knowledge has been continuously increasing (counting among his teachers the famous Cuban composer Leo Brouwer), he is more widely praised for the poetry in his songs than for the accompanying music. His lyrics are a staple of leftist culture throughout the whole Spanish-speaking world, and he has been banned from the media during several of the dictatorial regimes that ruled Latin America in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

His debut album was Dias y Flores, launched in 1975. Al Final de Este Viaje and Cuando Digo Futuro feature songs he composed before Dias y Flores. He reached international popularity in the early 1980s with Rabo de Nube and, in particular, Unicornio. In the early part of his career his work displayed a fair amount of revolutionary optimism. Mujeres, released in 1979, is in contrast a romantic and highly intimist album. In the middle of his career, Silvio Rodriguez experimented with sounds and rhythms departing from his trademark acoustic guitar, accompanied by the group Afrocuba (e.g. in Causas y Azares). At maturity, Silvio Rodriguez thoroughly purified his sound through a return to acoustic guitar, great care and sophistication in the voice, and exclusive control of the production process from beginning to end. His lyrics became more introspective, at times even self-absorbed or self-justifying, expressing melancholic longings about the shortcomings of real-life socialism in Cuba while vindicating idealism and revolutionary hope amongst the youth. The trilogy, called Silvio, Rodriguez, and Dominguez (his first name, his father's last name, his mother's last name) displays sound artistic talent. The doubts, absent in the early part of his career, also correspond to the fall of communism worldwide and the so-called Special Period in Cuba. An unnoticed recurrent theme in the lyrics of the early part of his career is that of death, particularly although not only as associated with guerrilla warfare. In contrast to the explicitness of his early songs and political positions, there was a displacement of emphasis in his later years toward fantasy and dreams. Both, however, are about an alternative that is not present but is called for, or what Laclau would call a longing for a "missing fullness". This is true politically, romantically, and existentially. In a similar way, the unusual confessional tone of many of his songs allows for an unorthodox combination of transgression, eroticism, longing, and at times (probably accurate) self-deprecation in many of his lyrics.

The entire work of Silvio Rodriguez offers an intimate and introspective window into the life cycle of the artist. If the lyrics of the early part of his career are about revolutionary enthusiasm, love encounters and disappointments, as well as sensual desire, and if the middle-aged Silvio is more self-questioning, often looking backward; his most recent albums, such as Cita Con Angeles, talk in part about his life as a grandfather and has a certain focus on children, while Erase Que Se Era is the release (with all the means that come with being an established artist) of songs written early in his youth but never previously recorded. Mariposas also featured two classics composed in his youth.

Silvio Rodriguez stands out in the Spanish-speaking world for the intimacy and subtlety of his lyrics, as well as for his acoustic melodies and "chord picking." He is particularly popular amongst intellectual circles of the left in Latin America and Spain. He has also often served as Cuban cultural emissary in events of solidarity, whether in Chile (Silvio Rodriguez in Chile, 1991) or Argentina (En Vivo en Argentina, recorded in 1984), both massive concerts given shortly after the fall of the right-wing dictatorships. Cuban flags are always conspicuous in the crowd during his concerts.

In 2007, he received a doctorate honoris causa from Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Peru.^[1] (Lima, Peru).

Rodriguez has been a major influence on many folk artists, including the Swedish artist José González.^[2]

U.S. Appearance[link]

Silvio Rodríguez has been denied a U.S. visa several times, and it was particularly controversial in 2009 when he was invited to celebrate the 90th birthday of Pete Seeger. However in 2010, he obtained a U.S. visa and performed at venues in Puerto Rico (May 30), New York (June 4 and 10), San Francisco (Oakland, June 12), Los Angeles (June 17), Washington, D.C. (June 19), and Orlando (June 23). These were his first appearances in the U.S. in 30 years.^[3][4]

Discography[link]

• 1975 - Días y Flores
• 1978 - Al Final de Este Viaje...
• 1979 - Mujeres
• 1979 - Rabo de Nube
• 1982 - Unicornio
• 1984 - Tríptico: Volumes I, II & III
• 1986 - Causas y Azares
• 1988 - Oh, Melancolía
• 1991 - Silvio en Chile (Live Concert with Irakere)
• 1992 - Silvio
• 1992 - Mano a mano (Silvio Rodríguez y Luis Eduardo Aute)
• 1994 - Rodríguez
• 1996 - Domínguez
• 1998 - Descartes
• 1999 - Mariposas
• 2001 - En Vivo en Argentina (Live Concert with Pablo Milanés)
• 2002 - Expedición
• 2003 - Cita con Ángeles
• 2006 - Érase Que Se Era
• 2010 - Segunda Cita

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Silvio Rodríguez

• Official Silvio Rodriguez's website Songs, pictures, writings (in Spanish)
• Official Silvio Rodriguez's blog - More than 5800 followers (in Spanish)
• Analysis of Silvio Rodriguez Songs Meaning of lyrics (in Spanish)
• Che, Guía y Ejemplo: - Songs of Silvio Rodriguez dedicated to Che Guevara
• Hasta Siempre Commandante - performed live by Silvio Rodriguez
• TRANS Analysis of the harmonies of Silvio's songs, socio-cultural background
• Brief reviews of Silvio's albums
• Silvio's page in Patria Grande
• Cuban Singer Complains that U.S. Didn’t Give Him Visa by the Latin American Herald Tribune
• Cuba's Silvio Rodriguez Dedicates Song to 'Che' AP, July 23, 2009
• Cuban Folk Singer Plays Rare US Show June 5, 2010
• Silvio Rodriguez Concert in USA Photo Feature by Bill Hackwell, Havana Times, June 17, 2010

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Angélica Aragón (born July 11, 1953) is a Mexican actress of telenovelas and such films as Dune, A Walk in the Clouds, Bella, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, Vivir un poco, Mirada de mujer, Novia que te vea, and the blockbuster film Sexo, pudor y lágrimas.

Early life[link]

Aragón was born Angélica Espinoza Stransky in Mexico City, the daughter of composer José Ángel Espinoza. Aragón was raised in a family of intellectuals. She attended The Modern American College, The Sierra Nevada School and The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA) for almost seven years. She also lived in India, where she studied at The National Dance Academy and the Kerala Kelandam Dance School.

Career (movies and tv)[link]

Back in Mexico, Aragón joined the ranks of Televisa and made several telenovelas in the 1980s and 1990s while she acted in films such as Toy Soldiers with Tim Robbins, The Evil That Men Do with Charles Bronson and the cult film Dune. She played mostly roles of socialite women and also the role of a noble indigenous woman in De frente al sol ("Looking straight at the Sun"). She played the role of the wife of songwriter Álvaro Carrillo in the motion picture Sabor a mí (With the Flavor of Me), alongside José José, "El Príncipe de la Canción", who played the songwriter in the movie. Her telenovelas career includes successful hits as Vanessa (1982), with Lucía Mendez, Chispita (1983), Vivir un poco (1985), Días sin luna (1989), Mas alla del puente (1993) with Katy Jurado and Cañaveral de Pasiones. At the age of 44, after years of not receiving lead roles in Televisa, a company that focuses mainly on younger stars, she obtained a role on the second telenovela of new station TV Azteca titled Mirada de mujer ("A woman's glance") portraying, ironically, an aging woman who is neglected by her husband and finds love in the arms of a younger man. Such bold move paid-off and the telenovela was a big success. She also appeared in the sequel Mirada de mujer: El regreso, as well as the film Sexo, pudor y lágrimas.

In 2006 Angélica participated in the film Bella which received the top prize at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival by winning the highly-coveted Peoples Choice Award. As of 2007, Angélica is working as a director of Sueña (Dream), a play which is shown at the Independence Theatre in Mexico City, with Irma Lozano, Aarón Hernán and Miguel Garza.

Telenovelas[link]

• A Corazón Abierto as Elena (2011)
• Ni una vez mas as Azalea (2005-6)
• Mirada de mujer: El regreso as María Inés Domínguez de San Millán (2003)
• Por tí (2002)
• Todo por amor as Carmen (2000)
• Marea brava (1999)
• La chacala (1998) as The Devil
• Mirada de mujer as María Inés Domínguez de San Millán (1997)
• Cañaveral de Pasiones as Josefina, director (1996)
• Agujetas de color de rosa as Bertha (1994)
• Más allá del puente as Chole (1994)
• De frente al sol as Chole (1992)
• En carne propia as Magdalena Ovalle de Muriel (1990)
• Días sin luna as Lucía (1990)
• La casa al final de la calle as Leonor Altamirano Najera (1989)
• Cuna de lobos as Amelia Larios(1986)
• Vivir un poco as Andrea Santos de Merisa-Oregon (1985)
• Principessa as Fernanda (1984)
• Chispita as Lucía (1983)
• La fiera as La Costeña (1983)
• Vanessa as Luisa (1982)
• El hogar que yo robé as Genoveva (1981)
• Sandra y Paulina as Isabel (1980)
• El amor tiene cara de mujer (1971)

Films[link]

Hollywood[link]

• Bella as the mother (2006)
• Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)
• Picking Up the Pieces as Dolores (2000)
• A Walk in the Clouds as María José Aragón (1996)
• The Harvest as Dr. Emma (1993)
• Toy Soldiers as Presidenta López (1984)
• Samson and Delilah as Niji (1984)
• The Evil That Men Do as María (1984)
• Dune as Bene Gesserit Sister (1984)

Mexican cinema[link]

• Tequila (2011)
• El Atentado (2010)
• Recién Cazado (2010)
• Todos Hemos Pecado (2009)
• Guadalupe (2006)
• La mujer de mi hermano (2005)
• Tres (2005)
• Zapata: El sueño de un héroe as Waitress #1 (2004)
• Desnudos (2004)
• El crimen del padre Amaro as Augustina Sanjuanera (2002)
• ¿Y si Cristóbal despierta? as Mariana (2000)
• El grito as Blanca (2000)
• Crónica de un desayuno as Paloma (1999)
• Sexo, pudor y lágrimas as Carlos' mother (1999)
• Entre la tarde y la noche (1999)
• Fibra óptica as Doña Carmen (1998)
• Ámbar as Adrianina (1997)
• De muerte natural (1996)
• En el aire as Teresa (1995)
• Cilantro y perejil as Teresa (1995)
• Sucesos distantes as Irene Gorenko (1994)
• Novia que te vea as Oshinika's Mother (1993)
• Gertrudis Bocanegra (1992)
• Pueblo de madera as a corner shop owner (1990)
• Goitia, un dios para sí mismo (1988)
• La furia de un dios (1987)
• Lamberto Quintero as María de los Ángeles (1987)
• Sabor a mí" as Ana María (1987)

Political activities[link]

Aragón is an activist, mainly in Mexico but also outside Mexico. She has been working pro women (against sexual abuse, in favor of the obtainment and promotion of better labor and socioeconomic conditions for women). A lot of manifiestos (statements) have been signed by Angélica Aragón, alongside the signatures of many other writers, directors, actors, actresses and, in general, Mexican and foreign intellectuals.

External links[link]

• Angélica Aragón at the Telenovela Database
• Angélica Aragón at the Internet Movie Database
• Angélica Aragón- photos