{"id":11404,"date":"2025-01-07T09:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T14:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=11404"},"modified":"2025-01-07T09:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T14:56:22","slug":"cuban-longina-sings-corona-festival-pays-tribute-to-marta-valdes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/cuban-longina-sings-corona-festival-pays-tribute-to-marta-valdes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Longina Sings Corona Festival pays tribute to Marta Vald\u00e9s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"Guant\u00e1namo.- The 29th edition of the Longina Sings Corona Festival will be dedicated to National Music Award Winner Marta Vald\u00e9s, organizers informed in this central Cuban city on Monday.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The event, scheduled for January 8-12 in Santa Clara, will pay tribute to the outstanding Cuban composer and performer (Havana, June 6, 1934 \u2013 October 3, 2024), who wrote songs like \u201cPalabras,\u201d \u201cNo es preciso,\u201d Deja que siga sola\u201d and \u201cT\u00fa no sospechas,\u201d among others.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Vald\u00e9s\u2019 work consists of boleros, sones, criollas, habaneras and music for theater and television.<\/p>\n

The president of the Hermanos Sa\u00edz Association (AHS) in Villa Clara, Elizabeth Casanova, told reporters that Marta Vald\u00e9s participated in several of these events here and had a special appreciation for Santa Clara song movement, which is very close to her.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring her lifetime, she knew that the 2025 contest would be dedicated to her work and she was very enthusiastic,\u201d Casanova revealed.<\/p>\n

During the event, the photo exhibition \u201cHoja de Ruta,\u201d taken from her personal archive, and the documentary \u201cMarta Vald\u00e9s, soberana del tiempo,\u201d by Ra\u00fal Nogu\u00e9s and Juan Carlos Travieso, will be premiered.<\/p>\n

At the closing ceremony, Marta Vald\u00e9s\u2019 songs will be performed by prominent singers like Frank Delgado, Ivette Cepeda, Adri\u00e1n Beraza\u00edn, Ariel Barreiro, Carlos Lage and others.<\/p>\n

The guitarist and composer Manuel Corona (Caibari\u00e9n, June 17, 1880 \u2013 Havana, January 9, 1950), seduced by the beauty of Longina O\u2019Farril, released the world-famous song \u201cLongina\u201d on October 15, 1918.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guant\u00e1namo.- The 29th edition of the Longina Sings Corona Festival will be dedicated to National Music Award Winner Marta Vald\u00e9s, organizers informed in this central Cuban city on Monday. The event, scheduled for January 8-12 in Santa Clara, will pay tribute to the outstanding Cuban composer and performer (Havana, June 6, 1934 \u2013 October 3, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11406,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404\/revisions\/11406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}