Omara Portuondo and Andy Montañez Premiere Silencio

November 4, 2020

A few days after turning 90 years old, Cuban singer Omara Portuondo, National Music Prize winner, known worldwide as the Filin's Sweetheart and the Diva of the Buena Vista Social Club, will premiere today Thursday the 4th, on digital platforms, the single Silencio, a bolero by Puerto Rican Rafael Hernández, which she shares with the Boricua Andy Monatñez, and which will be part of her upcoming album, still in preparation.

Silencio was an essential song in the career of the multi-award-winning Cuban artist who has been distinguished with countless prizes, including the Excellence in Music Award from the Latin Recording Academy and the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts, a distinction granted to her by the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Spain, both in 2019.

Remembered are her endless duets with that great figure of Cuban music who was also Ibrahim Ferrer, and which now the "boy from Trastalleres" dares to revive alongside the grandiose diva of Cuban music.

The musical production of this single is under the direction of Gaby Moreno and Pedro Pablo Cruz while the design bears the signature of Alejandro Armada. The mixing and mastering was handled by Orestes Águila.

Recorded at the Egrem studios in Miramar at the beginning of this year, this new orchestral version of Silencio begins with a dialogue between the harp and the voice, an instrument that caught the singer's attention and led her to take some lessons. In the end, the voice prevailed, a voice that even at 90 years old the artist maintains with vitality.

In the midst of 2020 Omara and Andy reinvent with Silencio the beautiful bond between Cuba and Puerto Rico that are: "the two wings of one bird," through music and a deep friendship. This single arrives as a special tribute to Omara Portuondo on her 90 years of life.