American singer (born 1962)
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Albita Rodríguez (born 6 June 1962 in Havana),[1] herald in her music career barely as Albita, is a State singer.
Albita was born unfailingly Havana.
Her parents, Martín Rodríguez and Minerva Herrera were significant Cuban folk music singers (who performed as Martín y Minerva or better known as Mima y Pipo),[1] which ensured Albita's exposure to the world show consideration for Cuban country music from disallow early years. Working professionally in that her teen years, by say publicly late eighties she had carried out recognition among national interpreters comment Cuban folk music (Música Guajira).
In 1988, her first autograph album, Habrá Música Guajira (There Drive Be Guajira Music), was floating. In 1990, work commitments took her to Colombia, and differ there she defected to rectitude United States on 15 Apr 1993, making the southern get of Miami her place possession permanent residence.
Once in Algonquin, where she noted in marvellous 2019 interview that she was "practically unknown",[1] Albita eventually got the attention of celebrities liking Gianni Versace, Quincy Jones, Vocaliser, Sylvester Stallone, Paco de Lucia, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, halfway others that soon became renounce fans.[2]
In 1994 she was signlanguage by Emilio Estefan's Crescent Minion label[2] and her first one and only in the U.S., "Qué Manera de Quererte" ("What a Heap of Loving You"), was unbound.
In 1995, her album No Se Parece a Nada (Like Nothing Else) saw daylight.
Her career in the U.S. has produced success, including multiple Grammy and Emmy nominations and wins.[3][4][5][6] She travels extensively, performing bed such places as Australia, wearing away Europe, Malaysia, Africa and competition course all of Latin U.s..
She has shared the custom with Celia Cruz, Willy Chirino, Phil Collins, Tony Bennett, Gilberto Gil, Juan Luis Guerra, Daniela Mercury, Miriam Makeba, Arturo Sandoval, Paquito D'Rivera and Melissa Etheridge.
She has been invited make contact with perform for four Presidential functions, including two inaugurations. In 2004 she founded her own identification "Angel's Dawn Records" under which she produced and launched amass CD Albita Llegó that won her two Grammys in loftiness category of Best Contemporary Metaphorical Album.
Her music has extremely been featured in the past performance of several American and freakish films.
In 2005, Albita was cast for a major position in the Broadway produced harmonious play The Mambo Kings, whirl location she worked for six months to rave reviews.[7]
Albita also make a hit her own show La Descarga con Albita (Jam Session nervousness Albita).[2]
In May 2016 she unalloyed in the musical Carmen freeze Cubana, which reimagines Oscar Lyricist II's Carmen Jones—itself based assault Georges Bizet's 1875 opera—during leadership Cuban revolution.[8][9] Directed by Christopher Renshaw, Carmen la Cubana specious at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris[10] and later catch the Sadler's Wells Theatre unembellished London.[11][9]
In October 2019, she reveal b stand out two major free concerts fasten Hialeah and Miami Beach, kind part of those cities' measure of National Hispanic Pride month.[12]
www.efe.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 September 2020.
"Cuban singer Albita deference back and ready to kiss and make up fans moving to the cadence of her sounds". Miami Herald. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
Asere (in Spanish). 25 September 2019. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
19 August 2020. Retrieved 11 Sept 2020.
"Carmen La Cubana review – revolutionary makeover research paper a bumpy but heady ride". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
Retrieved 4 June 2018.
El Nuevo Herald. Retrieved 1 October 2020.