Yulaysi Miranda Ferrer

Yulaysi is a solo singer who was the winner of the second season of the Television Contest Sonando en Cuba.

When she completed secondary school, she joined a group of art instructors and received choral singing lessons with teacher Robertina Morales.

Daughter of a percussionist who was a former member of the Anacaona orchestra, and of a luthier, the fresh winner of the television program Sonando en Cuba has melody as her heritage, rhythm as her shield, and a voice that, if she sets her mind to it, could thunder throughout Havana from her house in Alamar.

After a spectacular performance in which the spirit of Cuban music persevered, and especially that of Juan Formell and Los Van Van, she was not only the winner of the second season of Sonando en Cuba. Also, as a result of the internationalization of the program, broadcast by Cubavisión and Telemundo Puerto Rico, the singer carried the rhythms of this Island around the world through the screen, and accompanied Olga Tañón during her tour, as announced by presenters Jorge Martínez and Yasbell Rodríguez.

The jury, composed of Cuban musicians Adalberto Álvarez, Argelia Fragoso and Diana Fuentes; and Puerto Rican Víctor Manuelle, born in the United States, praised the singer's repertoire which traversed several genres of popular danceable music with commendable results.

Her professional debut took place with Septeto Habanero with whom she recorded Orgullo de los soneros, nominated for a Grammy. She would later be part of groups such as: Aromas de Cuba, Estrellas de chocolate, Son Damas, Onda Libre and Dorgeris Álvarez, as well as the quartets Los Cónsules and Trova y son.

She then produced her second album, "Sabor a miel" is the title of the song that gives its name to the album.

The singer made a splash in 2022 in the talent show in Hungary Sztárban Sztár Leszek, where she enchanted not only the jury but all the audience that follows the popular program.

Her arrival at the program was at the beginning of the year, when she auditioned nine months pregnant performing the song Have Nothing accompanied by her husband on violin. After impressing the mentors to tears, she was included in the team of Hungarian rapper Majka.

However, between recordings of the programs, the Cuban woman had to live through a rather difficult moment, as she gave birth, in June, to her second daughter Miel María and almost immediately had to return to the set, just 28 days after becoming a mother. With her characteristic style Yulaysi reappeared with a colorful look, singing and dancing, receiving applause and recognition from the coaches, who thanks to the professionalism of the artist didn't even know she had a recent cesarean section.

The love story between Yulaysi and Hungarian violinist Gergő Krisztián Tóth dates back to 2016, the year when Yulaysi met her current husband in the Cuban capital, a member of The Orchestre Now, during a trip he made to Havana.

Although it wasn't until 2020 that they got married, they maintained constant communication and collaborated together, for example, in an online concert sponsored by Unicef on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Likewise, between the two they shaped Miranda's first solo album, called Sabor a miel, just as Miel is named the singer's youngest daughter, as she has a 10-year-old daughter from a previous marriage.

Her arrival in Hungary in 2021 was no impediment to stop doing what she loves most and proof of this is the current achievement, in which despite the challenges involved in standing out in another land, she has managed to shine and move forward.

The news of her progress in the rigorous competition Sztárban Sztár Leszek has caused reactions from Cubans inside and outside the Island, as well as from several celebrities who applaud this Caribbean star.

Among them stands out the comment left by singer Haila María Mompié, who was a judge in the second edition of Sonando en Cuba, who noted: "I live each success of yours as my own, you don't know how I remember that day I called you and told you that you wouldn't go to the auditions of @sonandoencuba, look you won and I was sure it would be that way even though you weren't from my region, but against that great talent and all that musicality you keep in that little body of yours no one can, there's too much in there, you're the best my skinny girl, I love you, let's go all in because you can definitely do it".