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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. The Grammys (1959) — Self
2. For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000) — Funcionario
3. Keep On Keepin' On (2014) — Self
4. The Kennedy Center Honors (1978) — Self - Honoree
5. A MusiCares Tribute To Barbra Streisand (2011) — Self - Performer
6. Celia Cruz | ¡Azúcar! (2004) — Self
7. A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba (1989) — Self - Trumpet
8. Marilyn and I (2019) — Self
9. Brownie Speaks (2014) — Self
10. Dr John . feat.Arturo Sandoval & Sarah Morrow -Live At Avio Session Basel (2014) — trumpet
11. Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall (1989) — Self - Trumpets, Fluglehorn
12. Arturo Sandoval - Jazzopen Stuttgart 2023 (2023) — Self
13. Cosmo Life (2021) — Self
14. Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story (2020) — Self
15. Henry Mancini: 100 at the Hollywood Bowl (2024) — Self
16. Lo + plus (1995) — Self