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.
Filmography
Henry Mancini: 100 at the Hollywood Bowl
2024
as Self
Arturo Sandoval - Jazzopen Stuttgart 2023
2023
as Self
Cosmo Life
2021
as Self
Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story
2020
as Self
Marilyn and I
2019
as Self
Dr John . feat.Arturo Sandoval & Sarah Morrow -Live At Avio Session Basel
2014
as trumpet
Brownie Speaks
2014
as Self
Keep on Keepin' On
2014
as Self
A MusiCares Tribute To Barbra Streisand
2011
as Self - Performer
Celia Cruz | ¡Azúcar!
2004
as Self
For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story
2000
as Funcionario
A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba
1989
as Self - Trumpet
Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall
1989
as Self - Trumpets, Fluglehorn