Bogotá (EFE).- The new Colombian series “El Club de los Graves” arrives on the Disney Plus streaming platform this Wednesday with a story of music, drama and comedy that highlights the importance of education in competitions and the figure of teachers in the lives of students.
The story is about a group of students who find themselves out of the prestigious band at their school because their talent does not meet market standards.
However, the arrival on the scene of the music teacher Amaranto Molina (Carlos Vives) will mark a before and after in their lives, unleashing a musical journey that will not only allow them to capture their unique talent, but also heal the wounds of the past.
“We have underestimated the importance of the teacher and the need for his guidance in the lives of the students,” said singer and actor Carlos Vives, who indicated that the teacher should not only educate with what the “curriculum” says, but also “must teach for life”.
He also added that “each student is a unique and different world”, so education “must stop uniformizing them and ask them the same thing”, because each one has different skills and competencies.
“The Graves Club”
The actor and comedian Julián Arango, who plays Eduardo Kramer, mentioned that when he was at school he was part of “Los graves” because he did not follow the conventional path of his classmates, but was “interested in taking other directions such as comedy.”
Vives highlighted that in his adolescence he was also part of “Los graves” because he did not follow the norms established by commercial success in music, but rather “music was doing its job” and in the end it occupied “a place in the heart of the people”.
The ten-episode series is part of Disney Plus’ commitment to making audiovisual productions with Colombian talent.
“It is a dream come true to be able to work with Disney,” said Arango, adding that the entire cast made an effort to give the best of their talent because the company of the mouse “means magic” and that is what moves them as actors.
The return of Vives to the screen
Thanks to the telenovelas “Gallito Ramírez” and “Escalona”, two of his most successful projects, in which he starred in 1986 and 1991, respectively, Vives found the ground to explore vallenato and find his initial sound that he combined with rock.
But music kept him from acting and his last job as an actor on the small screen was “La doble mujer”, which he starred in with the Venezuelan Rudy Rodríguez in 1992.
After 30 years of absence from television, Carlos Vives returns to acting playing an unconventional music teacher who comes to teach at a school specializing in music education.
In “El club de los graves”, Vives has managed to combine his two passions, as he plays a music teacher and is also in charge of the soundtrack of the series where he performs “Tumbando muros”, the first original single from this series. new production.
The winner of two Grammy Awards and fifteen Latin Grammy Awards returns to the screen in the company of his youngest daughter, Elena.
