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Omara Portuondo has just celebrated his 60 year career with a "Thank You" is actually the title of a song written for her by Uruguayan songwriter Jorge Drexler, and title track released last year, which included a selection of topics that have marked him throughout his career, always wanted to sing songs, along with other original, and a list of contributors among those found, in addition to Jorge Drexler, Pablo Milanés, Chico Buarque, the pianist Chucho Valdés and bassist Richard Bona and the Avishai Cohen.
Omara Portuondo's concert will be a farewell treat for the XII edition of the Festival de Jazz de San Javier, where "the Edith Piaf of Cuba, which has always moved between Cuban music and American jazz deploy part of its vast repertoire ranging from "That Old Black Magic" or "Caravan" by Duke Ellington he included in his first solo album "Black Magic" (1959) to the more contemporary "I saw", the Frenchman Henri Salvador, the classic "Rabo de Nube" by Silvio Rodriguez, or the heartbreaking "Vuela pena" by Amaury Rodriguez included in his wonderful "Thank You", among others.
Omara Portuondo, the Lady of the Buena Vista Social Club, started by chance as a dancer at the famous Tropicana club in Havana, which has still linked as a singer until now.
They sang with Snowball, who first encouraged her to start a solo career after his success over the years with "Las D'Aida."
In shared Tropicana also stage with Ernesto Lecuona, Agustín Lara, Nat King Cole, Maurice Chevalier, Josephine Baker and Edith Piaf, among others.
"La Sonera Mayor", or "voice of feeling" as it is known in Cuba, can handle everything from the bossa nova Cubanization mixed with American jazz, he practiced with the first group and which gave rise to "feelling" or "feeling" of Cuba in the 40's, the son, bolero and jazz, a genre that is in their musical preferences in the origin of his career, and that has led to the most prestigious jazz festivals around the world, like Japan where he was accompanied by artists such as Michael Brecker, Herbie Hancock, John Patitucci, Wayne Shorter and Danilo Pérez.
Omara Portuondo's career took a turn for the mid-nineties when she was invited to participate in recording sessions for Buena Vista Social Club World Circuit label, singing "Twenty Years" with Compay Segundo.
Later part of the recording and film of the same name by Wim Wenders' Buena Vista Social Club ", which stars a thrilling" Silence "with Ibrahim Ferrer.
Omara's participation in these recordings led to starring in the third release of the label "Buena Vista Social Club presents Omara Portuondo .." published in 2000 that followed a memorable world tour with Rubén González and Ibrahim Ferrer.
His career took an almost frantic pace embarking on numerous projects and activities around the world and released his second solo album "Flor de Amor" with whom he won a Grammy Award nomination for best traditional tropical album and the award for Best Tropical Disc of the Year for Billboard Latin Music Awards.
In recent years it has come to share the stage with Chaka Khan, Nina Hagen and Marianne Faithfull, with whom he performed at the Vienna Festival Festival, and now in Spain with Mayte Martín and Martyrdom in the show "Among Friends."
Omara Portuondo last year celebrated its 60-year career by giving the "Thank You", an album full of pure feeling, which undoubtedly unfold on the stage of San Javier auditorium before the curtain falls on this issue.
In concert at Jazz San Javier, Omara Portuondo is accompanied by her musical director and producer of his latest works Swami Jr. on guitar, Harold López Nussa on piano, Felipe Cabrera on bass, Rodney Barreto Yllarza on drums and Andrés Coayo on percussion.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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