MADRID, Spain.- The multifaceted Cuban singer and actress Aymée Nuviola, winner of numerous awards for her artistic career, spoke with CubaNet about one of the most recent: the Latin Grammy in the category Best Traditional Tropical Album with the album Live in Marciac, that he shares with the maestro Gonzalo Rubalcaba.
The duet work with Rubalcaba, who has been a long-standing friend —they met the day they both went to take the admission test at the Manuel Saumel music school—, is one of the joys derived from the award.
“This project, which initially was `Viento y tiempo´ and was done with a band, later led to this one of Live in Marciac, which is duet. And there was already a much greater level of compenetration at the scenic and musical level, and for this reason I consider this Grammy extremely important, not only for my career, but also for Gonzalo’s, and to seal this project”, comments Nuviola.
Another recent and representative work in his career has been the collaboration with Spanish singer Melendiin the theme “Bread for Yolanda”.
Nuviola relates that she received a call from Melendi inviting her to participate in the project. She subsequently sent him the draft of the song, which she “loved her, she moved him from the start”.
“For a long time I wanted to do something that reflected the reality of Cuba, but that was done with love, and that’s why I liked this song… that speaks of the reality of Cuba with nostalgia and emotional charge,” explains the artist.
Since he met Melendi, they realized that they were very similar, and he refers to the Spanish musician as “very talented and respectful.”
Melendi, of Cuban grandfather, “said from the first moment that he did not want to profit from the song, nor to do it to gain an audience,” but rather that he did it because “he felt Cuba.”
Growing up in a musical environment, since her mother was a pianist, during her years in Cuba with her sister she created a duo that was a precursor of timba on the island. which they won “and from there his career skyrocketed.”
In addition to her musical success, Nuviola has dabbled in acting. Although in Cuba she had made a theater special with comedian Alexis Valdés; and in Miami she was working at Microteatro, among others; In the facet of her actress, the interpretation of Celia Cruz stands out, in the Colombian novel Celiawhere she plays “The Queen of Salsa”.
Regarding this, he considers: “For me it has been one of the great honors that I have had in my career. And one of the big steps because after the soap opera many people discovered me and my music was discovered more”.
In her conversation with this outlet, the artist also refers to her work with Paulo Simeón, who, in addition to her husband, is her producer: “Paulo can produce an album because he has a sense of organization and concept. Although he is not a musician, he has the vision of someone who can value music. And that he knows me in depth. It is a very complete work around my person”.
After leaving Cuba and before arriving in Miami, Aymée Nuviola and Paulo Simeón were living in Costa Rica and Mexico.
“Costa Rica was the country that opened a door for me, both from the point of view of faith and from the sound doors. The doors to realize that there was a rhythmic world that had to be explored much more directly because I did it by listening to it. In Cuba I always saw all kinds of music, but from then on I played it and that never happened until I arrived in Costa Rica. There I played several well-known songs and suddenly an original from my repertoire slipped in that was rhythmically in line with what they were used to hearing, and they assimilated it”.
“We went to Cancun, to a very hotel area, where there were many possibilities to play with small groups and the little group we had was in great demand in all the hotels. There came a time when I thought that there, even if I had a job all my life, I was not going to develop my musical career. And we came to Miami ”, he recounts.
“Arriving in Miami, in 2004, was like consolidating all those little pieces,” Nuviola says of the city where “she has done the most important part of her career, her life and her marriage.”
In 2016, the singer received the Key to the city of Miami, from the then mayor Tomás Regalado.
Regarding this recognition, he expresses: “Receiving the key to the city was very exciting for me. And I said, if I had the keys to my Havana, the city where I was born… I don’t have them, but I have the keys to Miami, which is the city that opened its heart and its doors to me. It is the keys to the heart of Miami that I have, not the keys to the city.”
Regarding his most recent works, Nuviola comments that he is now working on two recording projects that should see the light of day from the first months of 2023. From one of them he has already released two singles: “La gatica de María Ramos”, which has more than a million views on YouTube, and “Walk, I’m going behind,” which will soon have its music video.
Aymée Nuviola will have a presentation, to which she invited everyone, on December 31, 2022 at Bayfront Park, as part of the giant New Year’s Eve parties.
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