Richard Cadena
| What year did you Graduate? | 1960 |
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| Where have you lived and where do you live now? | Mexico City, Federal District Mexico |
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| Married, divorced, single? | Married to Graciela Garcia of Mexico City |
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| Kids, Grandkids, Great Grandkids? Tell us about them: | Graciela and I only have one son, Daniel, born and raised in Mexico City, currently developing an on-line More… |
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| Still working or retired? Highlights you want to share: | American Spanish to English translator for CPA firms. ESL Professor at Mexico's National University (UNAM) & author of bilingual dictionary, and give workshops to translators on translation of financial documents from Spanish to English, too. |
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| Do you have a blog or website you would like to share with your Classmates? |
https://www.rjctranslations.com/ |
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Richard's Recent Comments
I was interviewed by Eddie Lopez, head DJ of the Alma del Barrio program on KXLU (Loyola Marymount University of Los Angeles, CA) on January 27, 2019. Eddie asked me about groups in Mexico City and other parts of Mexico such as Veracruz where there are excellent Mexican salsa groups playing that are not known very well outside of Mexico. This interview was by telephone, Eddie at KXLU in Los Angeles and myself at my house in Mexico City. All of this was done in English, as Eddie is also a native son of Los Angeles like yours truly. The idea was to have Eddie pick my brains on salsa music in Mexico, and we played music by some of those groups, and traded comments about what was played. We are planning to do another telephone interview on Sunday, March 31, 2019, most likely at around 3 PM (PST). It was a lot of fun.
Mexico City, November 16, 2018. I was a guest panelist at presentation of a book written in Spanish by Colombian Author Robert Tellez Moreno about Salsa-Latin Jazz icon Ray Barretto (of "El Watusi" fame), whose book was presented in Mexico City. I was one of four panelists invited to talk about Ray Barretto and his musical legacy, as well as salsa and latin jazz music, and was given about fifteen minutes to speak, all in Spanish. This is part two (a little more than 5 minutes).
Mexico City, November 16, 2018. I was a guest panelist at presentation of a book written in Spanish by Colombian Author Robert Tellez Moreno about Salsa-Latin Jazz icon Ray Barretto (of "El Watusi" fame), whose book was presented in Mexico City. I was one of four panelists invited to talk about Ray Barretto and his musical legacy, as well as salsa and latin jazz music, and was given about fifteen minutes to speak, all in Spanish. This is part one (10 minutes).
This is my bilingual dictionary that I had published in the areas of accounting, finance, and tax from Spanish to English & English to Spanish, containing 6,000 terms from Spanish to English and the same 6,000 terms from English to Spanish, published in Mexico City by the Instituto Mexicano de Contadores Públicos, A.C. (Mexican Institute of Certified Public Accountants) in January 2013.
Conga drummer & percussionist Ray Barretto, of "El Watusi" fame back in Spring 1963, was an icon in salsa, latin jazz, and also recorded with many jazz and some rock artists. A native New Yorker (Nuyorican), Ray often toured Latin America with his salsa band, as well as Europe with his latin jazz band, and appeared in the major cities of the US with both his salsa and latin jazz bands. A book was written about him and his music in Spanish by a Colombian author. A group of salsa fans in Mexico City have organized a book presentation event at the National University of Mexico, and the author will be brought from Colombia to Mexico for this event, which will be filmed and streamed live on Facebook, Instagram, etc. The event will be held on Friday, November 16, 2018 at 4 PM (CST). There will be a panel of 4 persons who will be a fundamental part of this event, and I am very proud to say that I, Richard Cadena [FUHS 1960], have been invited to be one of the four panelists. This photo is an announcement of the book presentation event.
Christmas 2012 Mexico City - with my wife Graciela and our son Daniel.
Photo taken @ the FUHS 1960 class reunion - October 2015.
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