The Carnival of Miami 2023 will culminate its festivities this Sunday on the well-known Calle Ocho in Little Havana, with the Cuban Aymée Nuviola —known as “La sonera del mundo” and interpreter in a soap opera of the character of Celia Cruz—, as a central figure.
Nuviola, a multi-Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and actress, embodies, like the music of her native island, a “magical mix” of musical genres, as defined by the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana, organizer of the event, by what has named the Cuban “Official Queen” of the carnival
As part of the 2023 festivities, the Cuban artist will perform this Sunday on the Telemundo stage during the Calle Ocho Music Festival, also known as the Calle Ocho Festival, where thousands of people gather every year.
Nuviola shares the stage with urban music artists such as Lenier, Yacob Forever and Osmani García, among others, according to what can be read on the event poster.
The singer, who became known with the duo Las Hermanas Nuviola, along with her consanguineous Lourdes, in Havana in the 1990s, was “the first Latin American to sing in a special segment that shows and highlights the historically underrepresented tropical genre.” In the transmission of the 64th Grammy Awards in 2022, collect the carnival website.
In 2021, she adds, she was selected by the magazine People in spanish as one of the 25 most powerful Latina women in the United States and was also selected by the magazine Hello on the Latina 100 Top Powerhouse 2021 list, an annual initiative that honors the most influential and empowered Latinas of each year.
“Carnivals have always been characterized as the town’s festival, so this is something very special for me,” Nuviola said in a video from Journal of the Americasof Miami.
The festival, the largest among US Hispanics and which since its founding in 1978 has been organized by the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana, has elected Latin American figures of music and entertainment as Kings or Queens, among them the also Cuban Yotuel Romero (2022), the Venezuelan Oscar D’León (2003), the Mexican Thalía (1997), the Puerto Rican Olga Tañón (1998), her compatriot Chayanne (1991) and the “guarachera de Cuba” Celia Cruz (1984 ).
The “Miami Carnival represents culture, history, tradition and goodwill. It is a meeting and reference point for our grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters, neighbors, generation after generation. And who could better represent these values than the Kings and Queens?
This year, the Miami Carnival presents “the best of art, music, fashion, food and sports” through a series of events that attract an average of one million attendees each edition, including its various events. , ranging from a domino tournament to another football, passing through another golf.
It also includes the Miss Carnival contest, which in 2023 was won by Cuban Daylin Rodríguez, a 17-year-old girl who arrived four years ago from the island.
The Miami Carnival is “powered” by volunteers from the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana and benefits the youth development programs of the Little Havana Kiwanis Foundation. It represents a $40 million economic impact for local artists, vendors and small businesses throughout the greater Miami area, the organization claims.
