YO INVENTE UNOS LLOPIS [DVD]

Carlos Pazos (National Plastic Arts Award 2004) learned about rock & roll while listening to, among others, Los Llopis and conceived this film as an artistic project. At the end of October 2011 he moved to Cuba with a team of five people, to listen to the Los Llopis repertoire with musicians who did not know of their existence. Los Nuevos Llopis perform in the Copa Room of the Riviera Hotel, where their predecessors had frequently played. This film, shot in just five weeks, reflects the adventure and documents some aspects of Havana before Fidel Castro came to power. The Llopis brothers studied engineering at Harvard where they became interested in Rock and Roll. Upon returning to Cuba, their passion for music led them to form the Los Llopis-Dulzaides quartet, with electric instruments hitherto unknown there, becoming the first group to make rock&roll covers in Spanish. In Havana in the 1950s, the splendor of North American culture expanded. The quartet alternates its performances in nightclubs and cabarets, such as Tropicana, Montmartre or Riviera, with weekly programs on television, becoming the first group launched by television in Latin America. After the triumph of the revolution, now under the name Los Llopis, they moved to Spain where they became very popular, recording six EPs (four-song albums) between 1960 and 1963.