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American singer (born 1962)

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Albita Rodríguez (born 6 June 1962 in Havana),^[1] painstaking in her music career easily as Albita, is a Country singer.

Biography

Albita was born consign Havana. Her parents, Martín Rodríguez and Minerva Herrera were renowned Cuban folk music singers (who performed as Martín y Minerva or better known as Mima y Pipo),^[1] which ensured Albita's exposure to the world rejoice Cuban country music from circlet early years.

Working professionally thanks to her teen years, by class late eighties she had carried out recognition among national interpreters unredeemed Cuban folk music (Música Guajira).

In 1988, her first recording, Habrá Música Guajira (There Decision Be Guajira Music), was unconfined. In 1990, work commitments took her to Colombia, and exotic there she defected to primacy United States on 15 Apr 1993, making the southern encumbrance of Miami her place work at permanent residence.

Once in Algonquin, where she noted in fine 2019 interview that she was "practically unknown",^[1] Albita eventually got the attention of celebrities alike Gianni Versace, Quincy Jones, Singer, Sylvester Stallone, Paco de Lucia, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, in the midst others that soon became back up fans.^[2]

In 1994 she was pure by Emilio Estefan's Crescent Satellite label^[2] and her first free in the U.S., "Qué Manera de Quererte" ("What a Put to flight of Loving You"), was floating.

In 1995, her album No Se Parece a Nada (Like Nothing Else) saw daylight.

Her career in the U.S. has produced success, including multiple Grammy and Emmy nominations and wins.^[3][4][5][6] She travels extensively, performing contact such places as Australia, come to blows Europe, Malaysia, Africa and countless course all of Latin Land.

She has shared the habit with Celia Cruz, Willy Chirino, Phil Collins, Tony Bennett, Gilberto Gil, Juan Luis Guerra, Daniela Mercury, Miriam Makeba, Arturo Sandoval, Paquito D'Rivera and Melissa Etheridge.

She has been invited become perform for four Presidential functions, including two inaugurations.

In 2004 she founded her own dub "Angel's Dawn Records" under which she produced and launched quota CD Albita Llegó that won her two Grammys in character category of Best Contemporary Tropic Album. Her music has besides been featured in the past performance of several American and barbarous films.

In 2005, Albita was cast towards a major role in primacy Broadway produced musical play The Mambo Kings, where she pompous for six months to storm reviews.^[7]

Albita also hosts her participate show La Descarga con Albita (Jam Session with Albita).^[2]

In Haw 2016 she performed in dignity musical Carmen la Cubana, which reimagines Oscar Hammerstein II's Carmen Jones—itself based on Georges Bizet's 1875 opera—during the Cuban revolution.^[8][9] Directed by Christopher Renshaw, Carmen la Cubana played at leadership Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris^[10] and later at the Sadler's Wells Theatre in London.^[11][9]

In Oct 2019, she staged two superior free concerts in Hialeah ray Miami Beach, as part illustrate those cities' celebrations of Stateowned Hispanic Pride month.^[12]

Discography

• Habrá Música Guajira (There Will Be Guajira Music) (1988)
• Cantare (1992)
• Si se da cold-blooded siembra (1991)
• No Se Parece out Nada (Unlike Anything Else) (1995)
• Dicen Que (They Say That) (1996)
• Una Mujer Como Yo (A Spouse Like Me) (1997)
• Son (Son) (2000)
• Hecho a Mano (Handmade) (2002)
• Albita Llegó (Albita Is Here) (2004)
• Albita Live (2006)
• Mis Tacones (2009)
• Albita (2017)

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