Highly acclaimed time and again, the renowned artist, who is one of the essential voices in Cuban and Ibero-American, premiered songs, sang old and recent songs from her extensive work, known by the Colombian public with whom she interacted casually and made her performance more intimate on Friday night.
Liuba, whose songs are characterized by a high poetic, melodic, rhythmic and thematic variety and in which Cuban genres such as free song, guajira, son, habanera and danzón are always present, shared the stage with the Luz Marina Posada, a singer and author from Antioquia, who is an exceptional exponent of Andean song, and Marta Gómez, one of the main references of Colombian and Latin American folklore.
In statements to Prensa Latina, she assured that Colombia is very important for her career, and also for any Cuban interpreter, because it is a country where Cuban music is highly appreciated.
In addition, “the public is very warm, loving, that overwhelms you and you don’t forget it,” said the artist, who has since 1982 been a member of the New Song Movement, founded by legendary musicians like Silvio Rodríguez and Pablo Milanés, to whom she paid tribute.
“Colombia is a space of light and freedom for Cuban music from the most traditional to the most current. It is a space that I adore and where I always want to return,” she said.
In her concert, Liuba sang songs from her new album “Para volverte a ver.”
Regarding this vast and varied catalog presented to Colombians, she told Prensa Latina that she came to give a hug “and she wanted to give that hug in the biggest, broadest way.”
“That’s why I went through the most important songs of my entire discography, especially “Coloreando la esperanza,” with which I made myself known in Colombia in 1994 and 1995,” she said.
There was a long repertoire of children’s songs, distinctive elements of her extensive work and for which she was appointed Goodwill Ambassador by UNICEF in 2012, in response to her sustained and careful work that, as part of her vocation for the social work he does for children.
He said to Prensa Latina that she is finishing a new album called ” Canciones que no se extraviaron,” a title with which he paraphrases the volume entitled “Cartas que no se extraviaron,” which brings together nearly 100 letters sent by Cuban poet, storyteller Dulce Maria Loynaz, winner of the Cervantes Prize.
Referring to her very active artistic life in various settings such as Cuba, Spain and now Colombia, she pointed out, “I am always working, I am always creating with a group of very creative, very dreamy and demanding people. I am privileged.”
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