Meanwhile, Antonetti is a “Latinx, indigenous, mixed race LGBTQIA+ actress and singer from the Greater Rochester, New York area,” as stated in the show’s playbill, and is currently completing her BFA ...

If you’ve heard the Buena Vista Social Club, then you’ve heard the unforgettable voice of Omara Portuondo. Now in her 90’s, Cuba's legendary diva has been a driving force in Afro-Cuban music for over ...

Omara’s first encounter with music was at a very early age. Just as in any other Cuban home, the future singer and her siblings grew up with the songs which her parents, for lack of a gramophone, sang ...

For many, Omara Portuondo is best known for her participation in the Buena Vista Social Club; but the nonagenarian has lived many lives before and after the formation of the internationally recognized ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The story of the musical group serves as the basis of the stage musical of the ...

Buena Vista Social Club diva Omara Portuondo can make anything sound good — her style is so effortless and sure, so smooth that it’s difficult to imagine anything could throw her off track. She is ...

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With a solo U.S. tour and a Latin Grammy Nomination, the renowned Cuban singer reminds audiences that she's not just about Buena Vista. By Judy Cantor-Navas When Omara Portuondo turns 86 later this ...

Cuban singer Omara Portuondo will perform on Oct. 29, as part of this year’s Performing Arts program at Chico State’s Laxson Auditorium. For six decades, this remarkable woman has sung romantic Cuban ...

Halloween still is a few days off, but for the Cuban chanteuse Omara Portuondo, Friday night’s concert at UCLA’s Royce Hall was an occasion for marking an early Thanksgiving. Hip-swiveling her way ...

Omara Portuondo has been called the Lady Day of Cuba, and on the surface, the comparison makes sense — Portuondo has spent time in small Cuban clubs, as Billie Holiday once did here in the U.S., and ...

OMARA PORTUONDO, Buena Vista Social Club Presents (World Circuit/Nonesuch) The melancholy beauty of Omara Portuondo’s voice echoes fate. The stylish diva’s career took an irrevocable turn during the ...