Good news about Luna Manzanares

July 8, 2020

For those wondering about the void left by a media figure like Luna Manzanares due to her absence from recent online concerts, this is because she will soon have the joy of becoming a mother.

In this regard, it seems like it was just yesterday when Enrique Carballea –a decisive threshold-crosser for the realization of Arte Vivo's trajectories– asked me in 2012 for a space in the Submarino Amarillo's programming to present a promising performer.

I didn't hesitate for a moment in preparing the conditions for the budding artist with her versions of Beatles songs at the appreciated capital cultural center. Precisely, I owe Carballea the privilege of making me feel dazzled, as surely happened to those who were at the first professional performance of a diva of Ella Fitzgerald's caliber. When Luna Manzanares sings, we stop believing that there is a limit to how far the voice can be capable of transmitting the deepest emotions with such beauty.

Thus, in the course of just eight years, the cheerful and attractive Luna has become a prestigious singer in whom elegance, simplicity, and intelligence in her well-grounded judgment of her work have made her a welcoming dwelling to elevate her. If for writer Cintio Vitier the soul is the kingdom of feeling, of sensing and of sensitivity, someone like Luna has made such an affirmation her own, intuitively.

Our fascination with the boundless scope of her spirituality is much more than the amazement provoked by the warm nuance of singing or her praised pitch. The magnificence of Luna Manzanares lies in her veneration for the purity of the soul in the artist. As she has expressed to the press, when she decides to approach a piece it is because she has previously experienced an identification with the soul of that work, so as to then sing it from the heart. Hence the high flight of creativity embodied in I will always love you, by Whitney Houston; the transcendent performance on the song Una mujer, with Buena Fe, or the energizing presence of Ochún, among so many other memorable pieces. With personalities of the artistic hierarchy of Luna Manzanares it is possible to glimpse, through her beautiful singing, the striking dimension of culture in our lives.