Catalan singer Sílvia Pérez Cruz will offer a concert on November 11 in Havana, according to the singer’s platforms and the host institution itself, the National Museum of Fine Arts.
The concert will be in the Patio del Museo and is scheduled for 8:00 pm Tickets would start selling an hour before, according to a notice on social networks.
The interpreter has said that it is a “very special concert”, since the date coincides with the title of her first solo work (November 11th), dedicated to his father, a “lover of Cuba” and whose work marks 10 years.
Pérez Cruz is one of the most “overwhelming voices that has appeared in recent times”, according to experts, and singer-songwriters like Jorge Drexler have said that she is “a voice that marks a generation”.
Also a composer, and born in 1983, Pérez Cruz “grew up among popular Iberian and Latin American songs, she was educated in classical and jazz. Infected by flamenco through a connection that seems supernatural, she sings in a way that is only hers and makes me shudder”.
He has been part of countless albums and projects, and has collaborated with artists such as Drexler himself, Natalia Lafourcade, Lila Downs, Joan Manuel Serrat, among others.
Before starting his solo career, in 2012 with the departure of November 11th, He was part of groups like Las Migas.
In 2011 it had offered In the imagination, work that conquered the public and the critics for rescuing the Cuban filin in its repertoire. As he recalls on his page, In the imagination is a review of Cuban music classics, selected and arranged by double bassist Javier Colina. That album was presented in Havana and in the city of Santa Clara.
His latest album was titled Farce. It was released on the market in 2020.
Silvia has sung in the United States, Estonia, Bulgaria, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Algeria, Tunisia, Belgium, Holland, Croatia, Hong Kong and England, and has frequently visited France, Portugal, Norway, Italy, Turkey, Argentina, Chile. , Uruguay, Mexico, Brazil or Japan, thus consolidating its increasingly solid international trajectory.
Last month she was awarded the National Prize for Current Music 2022, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Given this, in newspapers such as the Madrid The country it was written that “she is an artist who has been offering risky and eclectic projects for more than a decade”.
