Omara Portuondo Gives a Concert Tonight

By Amauris Betancourt.

Omara Portuondo, la Novia del Feeling.

Cuban famous singer Omara Portuondo, member of the Buena Vista Social Club, gives a concert tonight in the Eddy Suñol theater, one of the sceneries of her  national tour that have already included Guantánamo, Santiago de Cuba and Granma.

Local singer Lucrecia Marín (Luma) will keep her company in some numbers. Portuondo remembers the Holguín composer Juanito Márquez from whom she will interpret a song.

Holguin journalist.

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Pachi Naranjo, Cuban National Music Award 2011

By Amauris Betancourt.

I am far from being an expertise at music though I listen to all sort of music, personal preferences I have, depending on the context. Sometimes I have no choice of course. And I hardly dance -very bad of me!- because I don not only need the help of lights.  

Oh, that`s me beating around the bush. I just only wanted to share my pleasure when I heard Wilfredo “Pachy” Naranjo, the Original de Manzanillo band director, had been presented with the Cuban National Music Award 2011. This group has been long one of my favorite. A thousand congratulations to Pachy!