Yaima Sáez Sings to Roberto Valera

March 2, 2024

The Record Label Bis Music presented the album: "Twelve Jewels" Yaima Sáez Sings to Roberto Valera.

This is a production that brings together 12 songs with lyrics and music by the maestro and National Music Prize winner Roberto Valera. The phonogram was recorded and mixed at dBega Studios by sound engineer Carlos de la Bega, under the musical production of Yaima herself, maestro Valera, and pianist Ángel Toirac.

Several musicians provide musical support for each performance, but it is important to highlight the work accomplished by a chamber orchestra made up of musicians from the National Symphony Orchestra who stand out for the sonority they bring to the album.

The musical arrangements are by maestro Valera and pianists Ángel Toirac and Efraín Chivás. The mastering of this material was carried out by engineer Nick Litwin, Mastering Mansion Madrid, Spain.

In the Album Notes, written in a poetic manner by maestro Valera, he states: And Yaima appeared with her light that moves, with her firmness and passion, with ardor and affection, with that voice so pure to embroider dreams that the poet would keep in his case of dreams (...)

Without a doubt, this is a phonogram filled with talent, art, good taste, and love.

Yaima Sáez is a university graduate in Physical Education, entering the world of music in 2006 taking song as her main genre to perform. In her repertoire, in addition to boleros and ballads, there is trova in all its variants, sones, guarachas, cumbias, sambas, and performances in English and Portuguese.

Grand Prize for Performance at the International Bolero Festival of Camagüey (her native province) (2005). Selected at the International Bolero Festival of Havana, Voice of the Year in 2005. Prize for Artistic Mastery, Prize for Best Interpretation of Cuban Bolero, and "Elena Burke" Prize, at the National Interpretation Competition 2006.

Grand Prize at the National Singing Competition "Mariana de Gonich", 2008. Invited to television programs and major galas in Cuba sharing the stage with Omara Portuondo, Orquesta Aragón, Juan Formell (director of the orchestra "Los Van Van"), Andy Montañez (Puerto Rico), among others. (2008-2009). Nominated in the Song Category at CUBADISCO 2016, for the CD IDENTIDAD from the record label BISMUSIC. May 2016

Nominated in the Song Category at Cubadisco 2017, for the CD Armonía, from the record label EGREM, May 2017. Nominated for the Lucas Awards 2017 (Music Video), in the choreography category for the song La Mazucamba. Collaboration with the song Qué te pedí on the phonogram "Cuba and Puerto Rico a salsa embrace", under the musical direction of Isidro Infante, and nominated in 2017 for the Latin Grammys.

CUBADISCO Prize in the Song category, with the collaboration on the phonogram "A VECES A VOCES", Bis Music 2023.

Production of the music video "GUARINA", a song that is part of the album "A veces a voces", Bis Music. 2023