SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cuban singer-songwriter living in the Canary Islands Virginia Guantanamera has released her new album ‘A mi gusto ya mi aire’ which will be presented in Cuba, in the province of Guantanamo, at the end of the year with a band of musicians from Guaso but it will be ahead of September and October in the archipelago.
This album, recorded in the Abdala studios under the EGREN label, the oldest in Cuban popular music, has allowed Virginia to gather a sensational front row of musicians like Isaac Delgado and Manuel Ceruto led by arranger and producer Conrado Monier.
Virginia dedicates ‘A mi gusto ya mi aire’ to all the dancers on the planet, “because it is time to go out dancing on the dance floor after what the pandemic has left us”, and also to women, because with ” makes a call not to waver, not to lower our guard and to continue in the daily fight”, the one that she herself has maintained to make this album visible in a sphere of salsa that belongs almost exclusively to men.
“I don’t know why but we women always have to be demonstrating everything. We should go lighter in every way, making use of the album’s title, and that’s why it goes directly to them,” she says in a note.
The creator of ‘A mi gusto ya mi aire’ already has three ‘Cubadisco’ awards to her record (2019, 2021 and 2022), the most prestigious awards of the recording industry in Cuba, as well as nominations for the Latin Grammys at the variety of tropical music category.
Thus, his new work is a warm record, a musical gift to forget the two years of confinement due to covid-19.
“Now is the time to burn the floor, this was the best time for the release of ‘A mi gusto ya mi aire’, a production for lovers of Latin dance, and for women who empower themselves with and above all, after sentimental disappointments, in their jobs, in their homes and with their children”, he points out.