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Omara Portuondo is a Cuban music and film superstar whose career has spanned over 60 years. The U.S. leg of her “Gracias” tour, which will make a stop at Sanders Theater on February 26, will mark the first time that a Cuban performer has been granted a visa to perform in the United States since 2003. Born in 1930 to a wealthy Spanish mother and a black, pro-athlete father during a time when mixed-race marriages were forbidden, she blossomed into a gifted singer and dancer, going on to perform with the well-known...
...feel honored to be the first Cuban artist in six years granted a visa to perform in the US? Why do you think you were the first Cuban artist allowed back in such a long time...
...feel really honored that we can bring our music again to the United States. Now a lot of Cuban artists will also have the opportunity, and this is the most important thing. Music knows nothing at all about frontiers...
...with this one, young people will know that we used to listen to music from all around the world. On “Magia Negra” we played North American music with Bossa Nova influences. That was what we used to listen to, along with our own Cuban music...
Gammons, who traveled to Havana in 1999, described a culture of suspicion among Cuban players driven by social factors such as “snitch lines”—government incentives for citizens to provide incriminating information about their neighbors...