6/2/2023 0 Comments Cuco valtierra mudic![]() ![]() In 1947, through the efforts of singer Miguelito Valdez, Guillot recorded La gloria eres tú by José Antonio Méndez, with an orchestra conducted by René Hernández, featuring Chano Pozo on the tumbadora. She joined the now almost inconceivable group assembled by Mil Diez (1010), the People´s Socialist Party radio station, consisting of arrangers and directors such as Félix Guerrero, Adolfo Guzmán, and Enrique González Mantici. She is probably the Cuban singer with the largest discography, and without doubt, she influenced the style of many other singers who came later. It was nothing new, because almost from the very moment she began recording, people learned her songs and continue doing so. ![]() Nobody knew who it was that brought her albums to Cuba in the 1960s and ‘70s (people talked about some merchants), but the truth is that those discs traveled by hand from one place to the next. Susan Sontag identified Guillot as an exponent of camp, and Elena Poniatowska talked about her emotional outbursts. She was called a “pioneer of the erotic song” in the days when the world was still somewhat prudish about such things. Some of the lyrics she sang then presented her as mature, defiant, and castigating. She also sang Qué sabes tú by Myrta Silva and other tunes, new at the time, written by Luis Demetrio, Lolita de la Colina, Paco Chanona, Chico Novarro and Roberto Cantoral, author of Soy lo prohibido, which she liked so much. Many of her countrymen, musicians, singers and “the public in general” learned by heart songs like Adoro, Parece que fue ayer, No, Todavía, and others that Cuban radio has never broadcast. In the 1960s, she helped popularize Armando Manzanero´s boleros across Latin America. However, the Cuban people kept listening to her. Guillot´s records were no longer played publicly in Cuba in early 1961–starting on the day she left, never to return as long as the Revolution was in power. Cuban poet Sigfredo Ariel, a great music lover, graciously shared with Cuban Art News his reflections on Guillot´s life and work. Known as the queen of the bolero, Cuban singer Olga Guillot died in Miami last month.
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