Annia Linares Sanfiel

Venezuelan singer and actress, born in Maracaibo, Venezuela. In 1963 her parents settled in Cuba, where she pursued university studies that she did not complete.

She devoted herself to singing and acting, receiving classes for five years at the ICRT School for Actor Development.

In 1970 she made her professional debut as a singer, actress and entertainer on radio and television.
She performed at national events promoted by cultural institutions where she shared the stage with Cuban artists such as Rosita Fornés and Esther Borja, Mexican composer Vicente Garrido and Venezuelan singer Gisela Guedes.

She participated in national and international festivals, as well as in artistic tours throughout Peru, Panama, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Mexico, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, the former Soviet Union and Spain.

As an actress she worked in television serials (En silencio ha tenido que ser), theatrical works (El deseo bajo los olmos) and in Cuban cinema (La casa colonial).

As a singer with a defined contralto timbre, she brings great dramatic intensity to her performances, reinforced by her condition as an actress.

Her style has succeeded in characterizing a repertoire in which romantic songs are fundamental, but where other genres and generic types such as son, cha-cha-cha and merengue are also evident; and different composers: Alberto Vera, César Portillo de la Luz, Luis Marquetti, Candito Ruiz, Margarita Lecuona, Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés, Álvaro Carrillo and Vicente Garrido, among others.

She currently resides in the United States.

Discography (Selection)

LD-EGREM:

Annia y tantas cosas (4090), 1982.
Heridas (4160), 1984
Annia canta a Piloto y a Vera (4337), 1985
A mi nueva manera (4405), 1987
Como cualquiera (4705), 1990
Grandes boleros (4823), 1990.

DC-EGREM:

Annia Linares (4795).

Filmography
Performance
El corazón sobre la tierra (1985)
/ Fiction

A mountain peasant, faced with the death of his son who died in combat, takes up the idea of founding a peasant cooperative in the heart of the Sierra. ...
Malabrigo (1987)
/ Fiction

A woman travels to Malabrigo to meet her husband. Her seatmate is forcibly removed, leaving a mysterious package that she takes, and she becomes involved in the violence of events that will lead her to an unexpected conclusion. .