Haila María Mompié promotes children's music album

April 17, 2021

The Cuban singer Haila María Mompié continues promoting her most recent musical production A Song to the Smile, under the Egrem label and with 10 musical themes dedicated to children.

"It was a debt I had with the littlest ones because 12 years had passed since the performance of M with A N with I, by singer-songwriter Rosa Campos. Back then the Bis Music record label came up with the idea of incorporating urban genre rhythms into children's songs, given the growing interest in that movement,"
the artist affirmed.

In an interview with Prensa Latina, Mompié expressed that the phonogram contains a salsa version of that composition and defends other Cuban styles such as cha-cha-cha, conga, changüí, mozambique, pilón, danzón and habanera in creations by Kiki Corona, Jorge del Valle, Yolanda Quintero, Aned Mota and Carlos Cartaya.

"Although it is a CD-DVD, due to the complexity of the animation we decided to first release the album and, little by little, the videos. Current times are difficult as a consequence of Covid-19 and children are the ones who have suffered most from this lockdown; making music for them also awakens the child that one has inside," she assured.

In addition to the Coro Diminuto or "children's choral group directed by teacher Carmen Rosa Pérez" – the sound material also features performers María Claudia Hernández in The party of Uncle Sunflower and Keyla Morera and Raúl Ernesto Pérez in When I Grow Up.

"During one of my trips through Cuba I arrive at the eastern city of Baracoa, in the province of Guantánamo, and in one of its museums Yolanda tells me: Haila I have a theme for you. And from a piano she plays the street vendor's cry, included on the album. The phonogram also rescues lullabies," the singer recalled.

Prior to A Song to the Smile, in 2018 she released With All Due Respect, a phonogram that compiles 11 works by recently deceased Mexican composer Armando Manzanero and which, according to experts, combines the romantic tone of the son of the Aztec nation and the salsa of the Caribbean country. Among her recent projects, her participation in the album Masters of Flavor, belonging to the Club of the Golden Soneros, a group that brings together "a constellation of the great soneros of this country, including Pedrito Calvo and Mayito Rivera" stands out.