The young Cuban interpreter Jenny Sotolongo The single, “Santa Bárbara bendita”, will be released on April 10 through music platforms such as YouTube, Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music and Amazon Music.
As announced by the company Bass Clef Entertainment, “Jenny gives us a version of this popular song, with a very contemporary structure and musical arrangement, paying homage to the queen of Cuban country music Celina González.”
Originally from Ciego de Ávila, Jenny was known in the beginning thanks to her excellent vocal conditions and media interest that she gained in the 1990s. Since her artistic takeoff, she has performed on stages in Venezuela, Brazil, Algeria, Argentina, among others.
Installed in the United States, Stolongo participated in 2015 in the reality show TI have Talent, Lots of Talent and between 2017 – 2018 he starred in the Selena Super Show with songs from the famous Queen of Tex-Mex.
Long live Chango!
The popular song “Santa Bárbara bendita”, composed at the end of the ’40s by Lázaro Reutilio Domínguez and Celina González, has been interpreted by numerous artists, including the great Celia Cruz.
The musical number became a spectacular hit. Record companies immediately hired the duo of Celina and Reutilio, appearing on various Cuban radio programs.
Cuba remembered Celina González on the anniversary of her death
“As peasants that we were, we knew absolutely nothing of the language of the Yourba religion. However, one day blessed Santa Bárbara appears to me and she tells me that if she sang for her, she would make me succeed in the whole world, ”the“ Queen of country music ”told the journalist Ángel Ferrera.
According to Celina, when she arrived in Havana, she received the lyrics and the melody of that musical theme. “I was not yet capable of imagining that we would climb to the first steps of fame, but the piece flowed into my mind, we sang it and the success was resounding. From that moment I began to elaborate texts with the octosyllable metric and tenths arose to other deities such as Caridad del Cobre, the Virgin of Regla…”, recounted the singer, who died on February 4, 2015 at the age of 86 after a long illness that took her away from the stage.
