Ivette Luisa Letusé Asón

Ivette Letusé, a young Cuban singer, is a graduate of the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory in the specialty of Choral Direction. Owner of a very sweet, in-tune and distinctive voice, interwoven with a convincing interpretation, Letusé is sailing full speed through the current Cuban musical staff.

She was a member of the jazz groups Melodía azul and Mi son of traditional Cuban music. She performed part of the soundtrack for the film "Dragon Hunter," a Cuban-Spanish-Nicaraguan co-production in 2010. In 2011 she created the musical project Cielo Abierto. She was the singer of the Quartet in a show at the Cabaret Parisien. She set to music texts written by Ernesto Che Guevara during his first travels through Latin America. She was a member of the musical group Coto y su Eco del Caribe. She recorded the promotional demo "¿Quién será?" in November of 2003.

After working with different groups and shows, she was a finalist for the Ojalá Creation Prize in 2010. On that occasion her proposal was chosen among all those who presented their ideas for setting to music poems by Rubén Martínez Villena. As a result, the album "Sinfonía urbana" (2013) came out, which under the general production of Silvio Rodríguez, was nominated for the Cubadisco award in the Text Musicalization category.

Ivette Letusé's most recent album is titled "Deseos," released by the Unicornio Label of Abdala Productions, in collaboration with the National Center for Popular Music. Ivette is a talented performer who approaches the song genre in this recording to give us an exquisite product full of feelings and musicality.

In Deseos, winner in 2016 of the "El reino de este mundo" grant from the Hermanos Saíz Association, Ivette Letusé shows her gifts as a singer-songwriter and heir to a long tradition of female vocals that does not limit her interpretations only to ballads or romantic songs, but rather takes risks in cultivating other contemporary sounds without falling into superficiality or vulgar affectation. Her clear and exquisite voice equally travels through jazz, trova, son, guaracha—a tradition also inherited and cultivated in the manner of the most deep-rooted trovasonera jam sessions—, to an overflowing collaboration for the genre in Todo el tiempo, with the participation of Israel Rojas (Buena Fe) and La Reyna (rapper from La Reyna y La Real), which has the rare charm of making you dance and think at the same time.

Ivette has also been winner of the third Ibero-American Popular Song Contest.

In her recording Deseos she includes her ideas and marks a higher step of maturity, in transition toward other projects that are coming because she already has clear the concepts for a third album recording.

The video clip of the song Milagro, co-directed by filmmakers Orlando Cruzata and Rudy Mora, a work included on the album Deseos that the young graduate of the Havana conservatory Amadeo Roldán is promoting.

As Pedro de la Hoz rightly points out in the album notes, "as a composer, Ivette Letusé handles with intelligence and propriety the melodic tensions and their rhythmic supports, so that each song finds coherent expression. Carefully crafted poetry, by no means excessive, nests in texts that look as much like her time as like the personality of the artist."

Ivette Letusé, with solid academic training and a radiant voice, moves with surprising ease through genres such as danzón, cha-cha-cha, bossa, and guaguancó.

Cuban music is enriched by the contribution of talents like Ivette who value the legacy of their predecessors. From modern sounds they preserve it and place it in the preference of current generations.

Ivette has also guided a project called "En son de paz," with which she tries to motivate all people toward non-violence. With this she not only seeks to think about stopping wars from a military point of view. She has wanted to call everyone to tolerance, to accept oneself and accept the other, to make our daily life more pleasant. Respect among all human beings is what motivates this campaign, for which her music is a way to unite wills.