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Omara said that long ago that wanted to record together again.
They had done in January 1997, in studies I hope to Havana, Challenges, an album funded by the Spanish producer Manuel Domínguez for his label Nubenegra.
And they've done it again now Omara & Chucho.
The idea came up the thread when the pianist accompanied the singer in one of the numbers of Thanksgiving, the latest album by Omara Portuondo, who recorded another duet with Mary Beth Brazil ¢ nia.
Together perform at La Mar de Musicas, in what will be his debut and only concert in Spain on 12 July.
In addition, together they give one of the songs from her new album, due out April 29.
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Omara Portuondo they return again to La Mar de Músicas no surprise but a promise that made him the director of the Cuban singer festival that each new project to record what could occur in Cartagena.
Promise fulfilled.
And here is the woman whose tears after singing with Ibrahim Ferrer Silencio at Carnegie Hall in New York, Wim Wenders immortalized in the film Buena Vista Social Club.
Mulata chancletera, is entitled a number of Lecuona and Galarraga, and so likes to call itself Omara, which debuted in 1948 as a dancer at the Tropicana where he worked since her older sister Haydee.
Omara had just turned 18.
Sang bohemian meetings and the first time he appeared on a radio show for fans, the announcer was announced as Miss Omara Brown, the girlfriend of English feeling she sang songs like Stormy weather.
In 1950, as a professional singer, joined the quartet of Orlando de la Rosa.
And, two years later, would become part of an extraordinary vocal ensemble, the quartet style of American voices.
It was led by pianist Aida Right and what were Elena Burke, Moraima Secada, Haydee and Omara Portuondo.
The success of the Cuarteto D'Aida was notable in a Havana night by passing the likes of Nat King Cole.
Omara Portuondo and Chucho Valdes are known from the time they conducted the orchestra Bebo Valdés of Tropicana.
Already in the sixties, when Chuck was one of the fixed Egrem recordings, among the many singers from the island who had to accompany, was Omara.
That Omara, which explains the piano, sometimes singing, sometimes he says, and with which it shares in the new classical album of sentimental song, my soul, Esta tarde vi llover o You do not suspect.
Almost two meters high for this giant of the piano called Jesus Valdes.
Bebo's eldest son, who started five years learning the secrets of the piano, gave birth a few months ago Chucho's steps, a bold album whose title is a reference to Coltrane's Giant Steps.
With nods to Cole Porter and Gershwin (Begin to be good) and tributes to the Marsalis (New Orleans) and Joe Zawinul (Zawinul's mambo).
Afro-Cuban polyrhythms to an extremely complex music that the creator of the revolutionary Irakere has spent years carefully orchestrating his head.
Until that time, he says, and not think, play.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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