Qué Tengo Pa' Tí

Laritza Bacallao

"Pasión y Dedicación"

Cuando de voz timbrada se trata, hay que hablar de Laritza Bacallao. Una joven figura del cancionero tradicional y contemporáneo cubano que ha alzado su voz en los escenarios internacionales más exigentes. Descendiente de la familia Bacallao, y como reza el dicho "hijo de gato, caza ratón", Laritza Bacallao es hija del actual cantante de la legendaria "Orquesta Aragón" Ernesto Bacallao y nieta de otro de los ex - cantantes de dicha orquesta y bailador, Felo Bacallao.

Pero dejemos que sea ella misma la que se presente en una pequeña entrevista con Heyli Yera Rivera para un programa cultural del grupo Cuba Style, donde Laritza Bacallao expone sus vivencias artísticas en el corto período de su carrera.

La primera vez que la vi fue en la Gala de los premios "Lucas 2010" junto al ya conocido Osmani García. Amigos que me habían invitado a ese evento, me pronosticaban una buena aparición de ésta joven. Incrédulo partí hacia el espectáculo, tomé posición en mi butaca y cuando salió a escena me concentré mucho mas en su voz. Al concluir su dúo con Osmani me dije: -¿de dónde salió ésta chica? ... y fue cuando tuve la oportunidad de reunirme con Ernesto Páez, el cual me indagó sobre las perspectivas de la chica. Para mí fue una grata sorpresa. Sin embargo, la entrevista quedó pendiente por causas ajenas a mi voluntad.

Tú me hieres
... junto a Osmani García en los Premios "LUCAS 2010"

Graduada de nivel elemental en dirección coral y nivel medio como pianista acompañante, Laritza Bacallao desde muy temprana edad comienza su vida artística, hasta que a la edad de 10 años realiza su primera gira internacional. Poco a poco fue ganando experiencia en el mundo del espectáculo hasta llegar a ser miembro de los festivales "Boleros de Oro" que todos los años se efectúa en Cuba, así como en los homenajes que anualmente se le hace a esa gran gloria de la música cubana: Benny Moré.

Recientemente, dentro de sus giras internacionales, incluyó una presentación en los Estados Unidos donde en Miami hubo de presentarse en el canal televisivo America TV Canal 41 con Omar Moinelo e interpretando la pieza "Qué será de tí", del brasileño Roberto Carlos, acompañada al piano y a dúo con Ana María Perera.

Entrevista Exclusiva con Alexis Valdés

Como la mayoría de los artístas jóvenes, y en el caso que nos ocupa; Laritza Bacallao ha incursionado en varios géneros musicales durante su corta carrera musical (boleros, cha cha cha, son, reggaeton, y otros), aunque a mi modo de ver, y con el perdón de los especialistas, la prefiero en la onda "feeling". Sin ser un género musical netamente comercial, su voz me recuerda aquellas divas que tuvo Cuba. Me refiero a Elena Burke, Gina León, Moraima Secada u Omara Portuondo que hicieron vibrar millones de corazones dentro y fuera de Cuba, aunque Laritza Bacallao es capaz por si sola de hacerlo bien en cualquier lugar que se le ubique porque talento hay de sobra.

El tiempo siguió avanzando y Laritza Bacallao se codeaba con los mejores intérpretes del patio. Los chicos reggaetoneros se sentían orgullosos al verla cantar en las mejores plazas de Cuba. Su voz se destacaba en cada canción y su arte trascendía fronteras, llegándose unir al prestigioso catálogo de PMM y la Compañía !Events con miras a un producto más acabado para sus giras internacionales.

Avariciosa

En Varadero junto a Alvaro Torres
durante su visita a Cuba

Como vocalista, Laritza Bacallao ha trabajado con diferentes agrupaciones musicales, tales como: "Orquesta Aragón", "Charanga de Oro", "Charanga del Conservatorio Amadeo Roldán", "Conjunto Caney", orquestas como "Los Surik" y "Sabor Latino" y otras de pequeño formato como "Villa Azul".

Sus giras internacionales cubrieron 21 ciudades de Japón y presentaciones en Caracas, Venezuela, Alemania, Suiza, Brasil, Torino-Italia y Estados Unidos.

Ha colaborado en 4 discos. El primero como la "princesita del Cha Cha Cha", presentado por la "Orquesta Aragón" y comercializado por Artesáfono de Venezuela. El segundo en 4 temas del disco "Si no sabes, no te metas" de Bis Music Cuba. El tercero en un homenaje a Elena Burke, producido por la Compañía japonesa Ahora Corporation y por último en el tema "Calle 66" de Forwrd SRI Milano, Italia.

Ya Te Olvidé

En febrero de 2012, Laritza Bacallao realiza una única presentación llamada "Una nueva mujer" en el Teatro Mella de La Habana, resumiendo una década sobre los escenarios cubanos e internacionales. La noche del 7 de febrero, Laritza Bacallao vió realizado en parte su ilusión infantil, aquel sueño que en una ocasión dijera en el programa "El camino de las estrellas", de que su sueño era cantar un día como las grandes de la música cubana.

Por aquel entonces era una diminuta niña que ya había grabado su primer disco con la "Orquesta Aragón" y correteaba los teatros y los escenarios de Japón o Venezuela. De repente comprendió que la música había que estudiarla y fue que con ahínco y tezón logra graduarse de dirección coral y piano, poniendo oído y alma en las grabaciones de la "Señora Sentimiento" (Elena Burke) y otras figuras del patio.

El concierto del Teatro Mella no pudo ser mejor. Laritza Bacallao se presentó muy segura de sí misma. Acompañaron a la intérprete figuras de la talla de Paulo FG, Tania Pantoja, Dairán, Los 4, Yulien Oviedo, Juan Guillermo y por si fuera poco, la interpretación de "Santa Cecilia" con el gran maestro Frank Fernández que provocó el delirio total dentro del recinto.

"Una nueva mujer" se propuso y fue un nuevo tipo de concierto, donde Laritza Bacallao como protagonista del espectáculo, se mantuvo en armonía con un cuidadoso trabajo audiovisual y la utilización de los espectaculares artilugios tecnológicos de la Compañía PMM como productora general del espectáculo. Antes del concierto, Laritza Bacallao vaticinó a la prensa escrita en Cuba: "Un concierto feliz, de una vida dedicada con amor a la música".

Lagrimas negras
...con Sierra maestra

Galería de Fotos

Nadie te lo Quita

A partir de 2013, Laritza Bacallao se reivindica y comienza a tener una fuerte notoriedad en el plano internacional. Las numerosas giras, los conciertos y la filmación de vídeos promocionales, le dieron el derecho a triunfar por voluntad propia y así continuar el legado artístico de la familia Bacallao.

Vean finalmente una serie de Clips que contribuyeron en gran medida a su éxito, afianzando aún más el gusto de sus fans y público en general.

Hello Baby

...junto a Cándido Fabré y Juan Guillermo

Sólo Se Vive Una Vez

Que Suenen Los Tambores

Perdidos
... junto a Daniel Alejandro

Carnaval

Del Monte Soy
... junto a Tony Avila, Ivette Cepeda, Miriela Moreno
y Grupo Frasis

Qué Tengo Pa´Tí
2014

Somos Cuba (Parte 9 - 2012)

Continuamos ...

Paulo FG

Bombón

José El Pillo Ft. Insurrecto
Bailen

Sr. Rodríguez
Defenza

Sr. Rodríguez & Yadir
La Cosita

David "El Embajador"
Te Cogió

Sr. Rodríguez & Yadir
Regálame Un Beso

José "El Pillo"
Tú Quieres Que Me Caiga

Yadyr
Soy Tu Bandido

Mediterráneo Ft El Chacal
Dime Dónde

Haila
Fuiste Mío

Continuará ...

Qué Tengo Pa´Tí
2012

Somos Cuba (Parte 8 - 2012)

Continuamos ...

"El Desayuno" con Heydi Yera Rivera
Artísta invitado: Alexander GDZ

Clase "A"
Ella Es Mi Fanática

Lany "El Real"
Tú Quieres Que Me Enferme

Los 4 Ft. El Micha

Como Hay Locos

La Combinación Ft. Yulien & Yakarta
Arrebatá

Los Tres Gatos
Te La Comiste

Owen Breeze & Manuel 2Santos Ft. Pandilla X
Loco Enamorao

Adonis MC Ft. Rafee
El Tren

Los Van Van
El Aparecido

Mayito Rivera
Si Yo Fuera Dios

Bamboleo
Gloria

Bamboleo
La Historia De Mi Prima

Havana D´Primera
Al Final De La Vida

Continuará

Qué Tengo Pa´Tí
2012

YOLANDA: a true history (English Version)

For those who do not know Yolanda ...

YOLANDA FOREVER

"Yolanda is much more than a muse. He touched the hard years, and without posing,levitated in the light of everyday life, there was drawn by hand, immortalized between the seventies and the Sea"

"... time passes ..."

One country, the film shot in black and white, which she helped to narrate voice Pablo Milanés, then no one so well known as today.

Three daughters, an apartment in El Vedado, visits, ash trays, guitars, problems and laughter, the troubadours, principals, community life. A world built with a soundtrack.

That life was born black and white a great love song, a hymn, the testimony of an era. In this life we were born black and white, the best witness of those songs and those women who remind us of who we are, if we forget for the moment, we recovered a chord.

It is impossible to tell the story of our parents, separate or scattered, united in the ground or in infinity, without singing this song, it is impossible not to swallow dry in front of our family photos, try to reconstruct the idea of eternity without ruminating "I was a declaration of love. "

"I was the girl he fell in love and could have been another, I do not have any personalmerit, talent of course it is."

This says Yolanda Benet always talking about his song and his eternal and indestructible bond with Pablo Milanés. She is much more than a muse, and has been escaped as a journalist or photographer has been able, among other things, manipulation and understanding, and because the art of love is in present continuous. Yolanda does not live caught between the strings of a song. Yolanda is much more and always knew Paul. His eternity is the great treasure that protects it.

Cuban, sweet, charismatic, witty and above all: Cienfuegos to the core. Yolanda comes from a city called "La Perla del Sur". Village founded by the French women are born there are graceful, refined, swimming and an open notion and visionary in the world because the port and the blue green lead and bring the certainty that the horizon ispassable and it all depends on your ideas clear to cross the water clarity.

As she herself told me, the first song I heard from Pablo Milanés was very popular and sang as part of the group "The Buccaneers", in the early 60's, called you away. She meets Milan in November 1968, then worked at (ICAIC) Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry, and listening to live realizes that this composer, just 23 years, there seemed to anything that sounded here at that time, had something different. First met her voice, then he appeared.

It was a time where for the Cubans to see the great troubadours downloading in parks or in the rooms of the houses was natural. Life flowed another way, more lyrical, I think.

They met through a friend who treasured a tape with all the songs that Paul was singing in those days and never tire of hearing them over and over again. She fell in love with the voice and the songs, but Paul had never seen, until one day that friend takes him to the door of his house.

Yolanda remembers that moment as if today was the day of the first meeting to begin production of the film: The first machete charge. At last they know, and as already discussed the idea that he could make music for this new film spent the night talking of the subject. She confesses that Paul thought impossible was going on military service and had no idea that he would go to work.

Yolanda is very enterprising and positive, made some arrangements so that he could be achieved, it did, once he began to collaborate with them in the film, composed four themes that told the story, his evocation of the war 95. Singing, filming, composing traveling around the island, intimate and much more is known.

Then Paul was a boy in uniform, a recruit, an ordinary man, but his heartbeat Yolanda told her she was not just any man, ever came to him deeply, even without seeing it. She was also a girl who worked at the ICAIC, but his sensibility guided with certainty.

He said then he was very rebellious, that everything was difficult in the beginning.

"Yes, I understand he spent a very bad stage, he was badly beaten and was and is very rebellious. Life has given him beautiful things, his children, his career. He had moments when I was crushing pain, sadness needed to compose, that motivated him. It's funny but during our marriage I was pleased that there was one song of sadness. We had a very special world. "

1969 marks their lives experience in the Sound Experimentation Group ICAIC. What is your memory of that moment?

"I remember that Paul is integrated and began to study music, he was a songwriter who had never done a musical arrangement, there develops and grows. Before writing the text and melody, was getting up from the text notes. They were part of an enlightened generation, he knew Silvio since 1967, who presented is Omara Portuondo, and had the habit of doing that every time a song you showed it to the other. Converged there and learned many musical interests helping each other. "

It was a laboratory, Yolanda went there several nights, was part of everyday life.

She recalls that the first settlement that was just made as a group for a song that came to Paul and EGREM Studios to see how that sounded, because each had written something, a guitar, another drums. An exciting time that comes to mind when you go back to those recordings.

"After many directors were called for documentaries, newsreels and feature films. The first thing we did was a film by Rogelio Paris: The new school. Who (15 questions about a teacher) who also had music by Silvio, and it was wonderful. At first it was no propaganda about the group, was essentially a laboratory for the film, there were experiments and gave their classes, then started his concerts, new and experimental music but also very Cuban. They worked on various topics, such as Brazilian music, a concert was all in Portuguese and usually attended by many young people. "

Who do you remember that time?

"If I close my eyes I remember them all together: Paul, Silvio, Noel, Belinda Romeu, who was also in this, Omara, Sergio, it was a great concert and they participated in the Cuban side. It was that period in which some American singers joined: Daniel Viglietti, Mercedes Sosa, Isabel Parra ... Oh, and Pete Seeger. "

Paul was gradually more and more dear. Their presence was often a TV show: Take a song and appeared regularly with Silvio. Yolanda Paul wrote that many songs at the time they lived together. For example: I do not ask, she knew it was him, thought it was because he used to Silvio Love songs from Silvio. That was a delicious trap and humble.

One day I sang "I do not ask me to go down a blue star ..." and she said: 'How beautiful the song of Silvio, "and he said' No, me and you. It was the first of all the great songs he composed.

Yolanda is a bell, sharp, humble, revolutionized everything in its path, Paul melancholy, silent, with his glasses pasta squares. When she knows he sang very sad things, dragging some personal sadness to all his works, many trying to breaks, loves apart, suddenly, I was not asking a bounce in your joy. It was a different song to which he was accustomed to compose. "It was a change of its energy. His earlier work was homesickness, sparrow, I saw that song change for the better. "

Perhaps it is his laughter and optimism that keeps Yolanda candor which changes their work. "Paul always said he needed to be sad to create." At 25 he was installed in his sadness, creating, spilling it all on his guitar.

Yolanda The song is bright, is an ode to eternity. It is a tear and a hymn. "Yolanda?; Yolanda is all magic. She appears to me, is a gentle spirit, and with me. You can not imagine what parts of the world arrives, the remote sites that I've been and I found that song. "

She travels far, you and me, really it looks like you and you to it. This is what I feel when I'm away and someone sings. They say that sometimes when she is alone in an airport or on a street in a strange city and listening, shakes, coy still long, is unable to say who is and what he has unleashed his name, his presence.

You can finish everything, you can call into question many things, but we have works that tell us that we were real, there was a utopia and love. Yolanda is a key. How did?

"He was crazy for having a son born Lynn, the first of our three daughters. When she was about a week old, Paul travels to work ICAIC. It was terrible to get rid of the house goes into the back country and when we were in the house of my mother. The girl was majadera, cried, did not want to sleep, I tried, but it was a struggle. Noel Nicola arrived, Paul took the guitar and I sang Do not ask me, I want to put my feet on the ground and Yolanda.

At that moment she listened attentively, was treating the girl, did not notice his face in frustration, was focused on the baby. Calmly, and at night, very late when everyone was asleep and they were alone, while she was nursing the child she asks Paul to sing her new songs, and first listening: Yolanda.

How you got, what went through your head at that moment?

"For a woman had just given birth, breastfeeding, the fact that Paul appears with a song like that paralyzed me. But mostly because he knew how to combine many things we had in common, codes, symbols, and everything passed it through a seemingly simple song. "

Unravel a little semiotic love this game:"Reciting the creed that you taught me.""That was and is something of ours, this was forever."They worked in the ICAIC, but with different schedules. They lived in the same neighborhood, in El Vedado, in a flat 15. There was a window, a secret space, and once exposed, the distance that the sum communicated with clarity.

"Here the light is wonderful and we communicate, we could" talk "in the distance, through the movements we did a side to side of the street and we formed words of love.We counted the hours. He and I had an almost exact daily life and when I came home and he was watching me, following me in a way, a very special ritual, then began to signal with the window. That no one understands him, but when I hear it never ceases to amaze me how the synthetic capacity to say that he found everything in the same verse. "

Let the fantasy all the popular imagination has on the intrinsic codes that brings the body of this memorable text, to unveil it.

"I could remember more, trust you more and more things but I've always fled to this, honestly I think the merit of all, you may have regarding these songs, it's just him. Paul is the artist, the poet. I am Yolanda.

"Something interesting is that neither he nor I mentioned the possibility of ever recorded, was a close, a secret of both. The song began to emerge in the ICAIC, musicians, managers, and also made him a wonderful arrangement, was recorded ICAIC immediately in their own, which premiered a documentary Pastor Vega and Paul began to sing at concerts. In the early years did not have that impact it has today. Now is an anthem. He always tells me he has tried to remove it from the repertoire has new stuff, songs that may well be in place, but never could, because people will not let him. "

Yolanda understood as part of their everyday world, Yolanda & Yolanda harmony in a world both personal and universal, it belongs to the aesthetic taste she loved and always admired Paul, before and after meeting him, before and after being together, she I dreamed of this type of work you loot the soul and at the same time you return to life with optimism.

The funny thing is that this song was slow to make between 20 minutes to an hour, it seems very simple, but in art the simple things take an unexpected dimension.

"It was all odds, do not think he ever thought that this work was to transcend both, to remain in force despite the years that have, despite what we have experienced two later, because if we did our later lives and have been happy each in its history. I think it was done with his immense talent and with so much truth and such a feeling, with so much love in the time, I think that is what makes that transcends every day. "

Instead: The time he spent relentless was the end.

"We were already separated. Undeniably, this is a song that brings a tear terrible, wrote in a crisis. But that is an artist, a creator, the human ingenuity that takes your pain with making jewelry. "

What I most admired as a composer Yolanda Paul is his "gift prolific." As a human being she confesses "Paul is the father I always wanted for my daughters and even if it were beyond me, since I first saw in their approach to children, their tenderness, I liked I do not think I was wrong. "
They have three beautiful daughters: Lynn, Liam and Suylen. "We have 7 grandchildren together. The three girls studied music, Lynn is also a professional singer and flutist. A decorator cream transforms the spaces well, in that looks a lot like me. "

Suylen sings when life inspires it, now is the PM Records recording studios his latest album, but it is so intense that it can take a music company and produce a festival the likes of "Propositions".

Liam: graduate choral conducting has chosen for his shyness, business life in the world of music, but occasionally sings because it has a very nice voice. And the grandchildren always together, because they founded a family together, having also the other children of Paul.
Paul and Yolanda have found a beautiful balance, to be together whenever they can to enjoy the family they have created, in good times and bad. To my question how he could rebuild his life beyond the myth, she replied: "As ever I am."

Enjoy the song "Yolanda" by Pablo Milanes authoring ...