Actívate by 123 Andrés
For Your Grammy ® Consideration
Nominated for Best Children’s Music Album
- Rubén Blades (The Walking Dead, Multi Grammy Award winner)
- Gilberto Santa Rosa (Puerto Rican Salsa Superstar)
- Los Rabanes (Panamanian cultural ambassadors and rockers)
- Henry G (Guinness Record Holder)
- Lucy Kalantari (Multi Grammy award winning composer and producer)
- La Mosca Tse-Tse (Rock legend from Argentina)
- Mireya Ramos (Flor de Toloache)
- Rissi Palmer (Color Me Country Apple Music Radio)
- Andrew & Polly (Ear Snacks Podcast)
- And many, many more!
123 Andrés launch Actívate, a new album with a star-studded lineup – an hour-long joyride that inspires families to get moving, with 40+ artists singing together for a great cause!
All of the album’s proceeds support children and youth. The Actívate Scholarship (La Beca Actívate) empowers a youth from an underinvested neighborhood in Colombia to study music each year, with Fundación CAKIKE (Cakike Foundation). Actívate also supports important work in Venezuela where EL ALMA NO TIENE DISCAPACIDAD provides music experiences to special needs children and youth.
Meet Gilary, the first Actívate Scholar
Videos
No me puedo sentar
w/ Alex Arellano on accordion, feat. Mireya Ramos and Shae Fiol, courtesy of Flor de Toloache LLC, and Pepito Elizondo of Grupo Pesado
La Patineta
w/ Los Rabanes, feat. Rubén Blades, Roberto Delgado & Orquesta and Gregorio Uribe
El Motor
w/ Jerau, feat. Mayte Montero
Ven Conmigo a Jugar
w/ Juan Miguel feat. YoelKeys
Sácala del Estadio
w/ Gilberto Santa Rosa
About 123 Andrés
123 Andrés have performed live for audiences across the US and Latin America.
- Lollapalooza (Chicago)
- Kennedy Center (Washington DC)
- Symphony Space (NYC),
- Coliseo, in San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Venues in Panama, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and more
Christina was raised in the US, in a Spanish-speaking family hailing from Colombia, and studied theater and dance as a child. After serving as a classroom teacher in public schools and earning a Masters in Education from Penn, she found her mission teaching through music.
Andrés grew up in Bogotá, Colombia, and learned to play the guitar from his father as a child. He studied clarinet at the Conservatory and went on to earn a Doctorate in music and win first prize in the National Composition Contest in Colombia for one of his early songs.