The Musical Recordings and Editions Company (EGREM) pays tribute to the popular singer-songwriter Lourdes Torres (1940-2017) through the album Like anythe title of one of his best-known songs.
The material contains 16 pieces authored by Lourdes and a bonus track by the author Silvia González Guerra. The record notes include evaluations by maestro Ernesto Lecuona and Mario Aguirre, National Humor Award, 2022.
“I am pleased to announce that after four years of hard work I achieved the dream of many, hers and mine, finally there is an album by our Lourdes Torres in the heritage of Cuban music,” he wrote on his network account. social Facebook the interpreter Yunier Díaz, to whom we owe the original idea and executive production of this project.
Topics such as “It was so that I forgot you”, “I know that woman”, “Who can raise his hand” and his well-known “Como cualquier”, among others, can be enjoyed in this new EGREM production that comes out just on the day the interpreter would have turned 83 years old.
“Latino temperament explosion”
Born on April 29, 1940, in Guanabacoa, Lourdes Torres made her debut at the age of only twelve as an opera singer.
Her warm voice, with a privileged timbre in its velvety tone and temperament provoked the admiration of maestro Ernesto Lecuona to the point of expressing: “Lourdes, it is a discovery of mine that will be a complete success.”
As a popular music singer, he joined various groups and shared the stage with stars such as Nat King Cole, Pedro Vargas and Celia Cruz.
He made his debut with the Los Modernistas quartet in 1961.
“Thirty-two years of working with Los Modernistas meant a new family for me (…) We came to have almost four hundred active numbers in the repertoire, we made premieres every month. In the quartet, my desire to be a complete artist grew”, the singer-songwriter confessed to the Cienfuegos writer Lázaro J. Ojeda Quintana, author of the book Lourdes Torres, like anyone” published by Editorial Oriente in 2019.
The playwright Héctor Quintero assured that Lourdes Torres is what is called a true explosion of Latin temperament. “The nuance and color of her voice are among the most beautiful in the popular Cuban songbook.”
For her part, the poet Carilda Oliver Labra praised her vocal quality and her stage performance “in which the grace of the Caribbean subtly dominates.”
