# Evelyn García Márquez

**Date of birth:** July 1, 1972

**Categories:** Arts, Music, Society, Singer

Cuban pianist and singer, daughter of Beatriz Márquez. Currently lives in Madrid.

Evelyn García Márquez was born in Havana City. Daughter of "La Musicalísima" Beatriz Márquez and granddaughter of composer and singer René Márquez.

Currently lives in Madrid, and makes her debut at La Cueva del Bolero precisely to express what she carries inside, which is singing and playing boleros.

Born in Havana in the heart of a family of renowned artists such as her grandfather René Márquez (composer and singer) and daughter of the highly musical Beatriz Márquez, a prominent figure in Cuban music. Evelyn was passionate about music and singing from an early age, listening to Ellis Regina, Keith Jarrett, Elena Burke, Irakere, among others.

At just ten years old, she had already formed a children's group called las Chikis, recording several TV programs. She began her Piano studies at the renowned Manuell Saumell music school at eight years old, and later continued her intermediate studies at the National School of Art.

In 1991, after graduating in Piano, she began her work as an artist. During this period she performed alongside prestigious figures in Cuban music such as Adalberto Álvarez, Juan Formell and Los Van Van, Ramón Huerta's group, the Trío Los Embajadores, Mayohuacán, Perspectiva, among others. In addition to being a Pop music singer, she ventured into Jazz, Bolero, guaracha and son, and is a composer and arranger of her own songs, with these very attributes she has performed in three Oti song festivals in Cuba, achieving finalist status.

Multiple presentations on radio and television, performances at national and international festivals such as Jazz Plaza, Egrem award, Boleros de Oro among others. She has conducted international tours through countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Discography
In 1996 she recorded her first CD, which bears her name as an introduction, that same year she traveled to Barranquilla to co-produce an album for BMG, participates in the 1st and 2nd Bolero Meeting in Bogotá, Colombia. She was a professor of the Misi workshop in Bogotá for three years. In 2002 she recorded an album as a singer for a Dominican electronic music group called ABSINTH. In 2004 she was a special guest on an album by the excellent Cuban bassist Jorge Reyes. In 2006 she recorded her second Pop music album titled Complicity which has two music videos.

Recently, Evelyn García Márquez participated in the recording of the album Este encuentro. In it she pays tribute to the work of her grandfather René Márquez, along with her mother and her brother Michel Maza (1978).

For several years she dedicated herself to teaching in Spain and the United States, without abandoning her performances.