In 1990 he became the first artist of his generation capable of overcrowding the Karl Marx Theater, for three consecutive nights, surpassing the capacity of 5000 people every night. Since then, a great number of new concerts took place in crowded halls of the capital. In 1989 he gave a great concert at the renowned Sala Chaplin (Chaplin Hall) in Havana, where he sang for the first time the songs included in his first record, Jalisco Park. In 1987 he created his own band with musicians from the National School of Art and ISA and began combining the song with elements of pop and rock music.Įther with some other singers-composers (cantautores), Carlos Varela created a new space in the Cuban cultural panorama, called Novísima Trova both by the audience and the critics.
Also in 1986 he performed together with Mercedes Sosa and León Gieco, from Argentina, at the Karl Marx Theater, in Havana. Three years later he made a long artistic tour through Spain, invited by the Cuban cantautor Silvio Rodríguez. In 1983 he started a 5 year course on Performance at the Theater Faculty at the Instituto Superior de Arte de Cuba (ISA, Higher Institute of Art), where he graduated as an actor. In 1980 he joined the Nueva Trova Movement and began to perform in theaters and small halls in Havana and in other Cuban provinces. In 1977 he began to play battery in some rock bands organized at his school and composed his first songs. At the beginning of the 70´s he started to study music.
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