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 ...

“You can tell a Cuban by the way they laugh,” says Omara Portuondo. Just hours shy of her Friday night concert in Manhattan’s Sony Hall — halfway through her last-ever worldwide tour, dubbed the ‘Last ...

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In 1996, Omara Portuondo was working on an album at Havana's famous recording studio, Egrem. Upstairs, American musician Ry Cooder was laying down tracks for Buena Vista Social Club, a project with ...

Omara Portuondo, the 92-year-old Cuban legend scheduled as a headliner at the CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival, had to cancel the Sunday, June 25 performance. Ticket costs have been refunded.

Omara Portuondo, la cantante cubana que es miembro del Buena Vista Social Club, es el tema de un nuevo documental que se estrena en la serie VOCES de PBS el viernes 26 de septiembre de 2025, de 10:00 ...

Ever since the Los Van Van concert last month went by without a hitch, cantankerous anti-Castro activists here have been itching for some kind of PR victory. They just got it today: bolero singer ...

Gustavo Dudamel isn’t famous for his prowess as a jazz musician, but when forces beyond his control threw a wrench into his plans for concerts this week at the Hollywood Bowl, the L.A. Philharmonic’s ...

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 ...

Cuban singer Omara Portuondo, the only female member of the Buena Vista Social Club, won a Latin Grammy two years ago. She was 78 years old at the time. Now she’s celebrating her 80th birthday with a ...