The La Mar de Músicas festival in Cartagena, Spain, will feature this edition the start of the farewell tour of the European stages of Omara Portuondoone of the legends of traditional Cuban music, where she is revered as the “bride of filin”.
In addition to the Portuondo, the Cartagena event will feature the concert of another of the greats of the Buena Vista Social ClubEliades Ochoa, who will be joined by the performance of topfunkartist of growing international projection who is called to be a great star of Cuban music.
In this way, the present and future of the musical art of the Caribbean island will shake hands in this edition of La Mar de Músicas.
Omara Portuondo (Havana, 1930) began her career in 1945 as a dancer in the famous Havana Tropicana cabaret, but it was in song that she found her space from the golden age of traditional music in her country.
As a member of the D’Aida Quartet along with the remembered Elena Burke, Moraima Secada and her sister Haydée, he accompanied stars such as Édith Piaf, Pedro Vargas, Rita Montaner, Bola de Nieve, Benny Moré and Nat King Cole.
Omara Portuondo anticipates farewell to the stage with a world tour
He has stories, hundreds of memories that he dives into to portray his life. For Portuondo, the recording of the Buena Vista Social Club album in 1996, produced by the North American guitarist Ry Cooder, marked a before and after. She became the great lady of the Cuban bolero and her voice became famous throughout the world.
exactly the disk Buena Vista Social Club It was recently recognized as a “sound treasure” included in the list of heritage objects to be safeguarded by the United States Library of Congress.
Omara Portuando’s relationship with La Mar de Músicas dates back to 1998, the year of her first performance. The diva received the festival award in 2014, and she said goodbye to her in 2019 from the city that had hosted her so many times at the Cartagena Jazz Festival. But she still has the strength left for another great international tour that will take her to the Cartagena stage on July 19.
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Just one day before, on July 18, he will perform Elijah Ochoa, another of the stars of Buena Vista Social Club, an album with which he won several Grammys in 1997. An album considered one of the best in history and that established him internationally.
Eliades Ochoa’s repertoire goes further and as an ambassador of traditional Cuban music he has delighted the public to the rhythm of sones, guarachas, guajiras and boleros. His successful career is not only anchored to generational successes, since he recently connected with new generations after his successful “Muiendo de Envidia”, which appears in The Madrilenianthe latest album by C. Tangana.
Previously, on July 16, viewers of La Mar de Música will be able to count on the Afro-Cuban rockstar from topfunk, name with which refers to its origins, the maroons, Cuban descendants of Africa who escaped from slavery living free in the forests. This spirit permeates his music, which aims to subvert conventional sounds with rhythmic innovation. A renewed funk style, full of soul and tremendously danceable, that redefines contemporary Cuban music.
Cimafunk will present its latest album at the Arab Castle, The fooda 13-song album featuring names like the godfather of funk Georges Clinton, American hip hop stars Lupe Fiasco and Cee Lo Green, Jamaican dancehall singer Stylo G, and legendary Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés.
