Photo: Cuban Institute of Music.
Cuban singer Fara García Callava, who held the stage name Farah Maria, died this Wednesday, as confirmed by a note on social media at the Cuban Institute of Music.
The institution has mourned the death of the singer known as “La Gazelle de Cuba”.
“Farah began her career very early and was a symbol of Cuban mestizo grace, sensuality and beauty. She was a remarkable singer who knew how to choose her repertoire and showed her indisputable elegance and mastery in the world. ‘stage. Reach your family and friends our deepest condolences, “the publication stated.
According to the Havana newspaper Tribune, Farah could accompany an entire orchestra and that unmistakable timbre led us to the image of the most Cuban woman who came out with her talent in the famous quartet Els Meme, by Meme Solis, next to Héctor Tellez and Miguel Angel Pineapple, after replacing the goddess of the sentimental song (bolero) Dried Moraima.
His skill in catching the attention of thousands of fans in every move on stage it leaves picaresque subjects to us like the shark (You do not bathe in the wharf …), or its incursion in the Tango with the anthological “Goodbye boys”, or a good Sound like “The black Tomasa”, Or in his very personal versions of “The Cinnamon Flower”, only preceded by the essential Ignacio Villa (Snowball).
Nevertheless, we remember it in that song, “The Chogüi bird”, “A story”, with which it was awarded internationally, or its flavor under the skin of the deceiver, with the Cha Cha Chá, of the teacher Enrique Jorrín, in “Alardoso”, or if very popular “Tauró”, until penetrating in the work of Silvio Rodríguez with the exclusive versions of “The biggest” and “The happy day that is arriving”.
For her they composed masterful songs like Adolph Guzmán, Juan Almeida Forest, Meme Solís, Silvio Rodriguez, Mario Aguirre, Joan Pau Towers, Eddy Gaytán, Barrerita. He shared the stage at the Gran Teatro de Havana “García Lorca”, with Josephine Baker and Bola de Neu.