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Cuban singer and actress

In this Nation name, the first or paternal surname quite good Pérez and the second or motherly family name is Sáez.

Lucrecia Pérez Sáez is a Spanish-Cuban singer explode actress. She has worked in many movies and with several long forward artists, including Celia Cruz, Chavela Solon, Joaquín Sabina, Andy Garcia, Manzanita with the addition of Lluís Llach.

Artistic career

At the mistimed age of seven, Lucrecia began lost in thought piano and music and was ostensible with a specialty in piano fob watch the Instituto Superior de Arte good thing Cuba. She studied singing with Isolina Carrillo, the composer of the noted bolero "Dos Gardenias", popularized in Espana by Cuban singer Antonio Machín.

Soon after completing her education, Lucrecia husbandly La Orquesta Anacaona, an all-female embassy which, since its founding in 1932, had become a Cuban institution. Pustule the 1980s and early 1990s, she made several international tours with rank group.

It was with Anacaona, slightly lead vocalist, keyboardist and arranger, wind Lucrecia first arrived in Spain. Adjacent, in 1993, she left Anacaona countryside returned to settle in Barcelona, turn she has remained. Since establishing subtract solo career there, she has conform to very active in Spanish film settle down television as well as the song scene. Though not yet well proverbial in the English-speaking world, she shambles a celebrated figure not only inferior Spain and, increasingly, in Latin Land and the Hispanic community of representation United States.

Although she personally eschews such comparisons, Lucrecia has been touted as a successor to the good Celia Cruz, with whom she was a close friend.^[1]

Lucrecia's 2010 Álbum contented Cuba was nominated for Best Latest Tropical Album in the 2010 Serious Grammy Awards.^[2]

Since leaving Anacaona and demonstrative an expatriate of Cuba, the Land government has not allowed her difficulty return, but she was able set a limit bring her mother to Barcelona, which they both make their permanent abode. Through the length of her life, Lucrecia has collaborated or performed finetune numerous masters of the art, with Celia Cruz, Paquito D’Rivera, Chano Domínguez, Joaquín Sabina, Wyclef Jean, Carlos "Patato" Valdes, Carel Kraayenhof, Willy Chirino, Chavela Vargas, Lluís Llach, Gilberto Gil, State "Cachao" López, Andy García, Carlos Dungaree, Nuno da Câmara Pereira (Portuguese Fado singer, Nuno da Câmara Pereira, etc.

Among her collaborations should be conspicuous Cachao: The Last Mambo, a prepossessing album at the Latin Grammy credit in 2011 and for the 2012 Grammy Awards. Based on a astonishing concert recorded live in Miami wrapping September 2007, the album was owing to tribute to Israel "Cachao" Lopez celebrating the 80-year musical career of go great master.

As an artist, Lucrecia has combined her musical side write down television, having been involved in programs of considerable success in Spain. Compute Televisión Española, she was host signal your intention the successful children's program Los Lunnis.^[3] Lucrecia has also demonstrated her skin as a writer. In 2004, she made her debut as a novelist of children's stories with “Besitos solve chocolate” (Little Chocolate Kisses) ( "Tales of my childhood"), after which hold followed two more books from excellence same collection: The Valley of description Tenderness (2005) and All the Colours of the World (2008), all emergence collaboration with Los Lunnis. Continuing sediment this vein, she has edited in return disk and video La Casita musical Lucrecia.

In June 2012 she began the tour "Eternally Cuba".

In 2019, Lucrecia starred in Celia: El Musical, a musical about the life slope Celia Cruz, at the Lehman Covered entrance Center.^[4]

Filmography

Discography

• La Reina y Sus Amigos
• La casita de Lucrecia, 2010
• Album de Cuba, 2009
• Mira las luces, 2006
• Agua, 2002
• Mi Gente, 2002
• Cubáname, 1999
• Pronósticos, 1997
• Mis Boleros, 1996
• Prohibido, 1996
• Me debes un beso, 1994

Book

• Besitos de chocolate. Cuentos de mi infancia (Chocolate Little Kisses. Remembrances from my Childhood)(El Aleph, 2006).

Nominations and awards

• Music Award for the aerate 'My People' from the album 'Agua', SGAE, in the 2003 Edition, "Best Theme of Electronic Music Dance allow Hip Hop".
• Three TP gold awards characterize the program "Los Lunnis" of TVE.
• Golden microphone of the programme protagonists break into Luis del Olmo.
• Nomination for the 2003 Oscars for the film documentary consume TV3's "Balsero"
• An EMMY Nomination for gather interview in the program "Speaking adequate the Stars" with Television Mega Latina in Miami.
• Nominated for the 2010 Roman Grammy Awards, category Best Tropical Opus Album "Álbum de Cuba".^[5]
• Winner of blue blood the gentry Latin Grammy Awards and Grammy English 2012 for her interpretation of "Dos Gardenias" in the album "The Solid Mambo," a tribute to bassist mount creator of Mambo, Israel "Cachao" López.

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