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Haydée Milanés & Pablo Milanés in a One-of-a-Kind Concert
05June
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Haydée Milanés & Pablo Milanés in a One-of-a-Kind Concert

On a day back in 1980 in Havana, Haydée Milanés came to this world. The daughter of one of the greatest Cuban musicians from the 20th century, she decided to forge an identity of her own, step out of her father’s music, plow her own pathway, be known for her own songs, her own arrangements, and stop being Haydée, Pablo Milanés’ daughter.
 
In 2004, she recorded her first album entitled Haydée, that were followed by A la felicidad, in which he got her big break as a songwriter, arranger and producer, and Palabras: Haydée Milanés canta a Marta Valdés, an anthology that culls a considerable chunk of that Cuban songwriter’s work, under the Bis Music record label run by Artex.
 
After releasing Palabras… Haydée saw that goal through and set out to return to her roots, back to the songs that enriched her both spiritually and musically since she was a girl; she felt time was ripe to honor her father and rescue a bevy of not-so-well-known tunes written by him and equally beautiful. But she doesn’t want to do it all by herself.
 
That’s why on June 11 at the Karl Marx Theater in Havana, Haydée will debut in a special duet concert with Pablo Milanés. Nearly two dozen songs will be sung by the two of them, with love and in the name of the love that oozes out of the bonds between a father and her daughter, and in both of them for music.
 
A dozen songs belong to Haydée’s latest album, also recorded under Artex’s Bis Music record label, entitled Amor: Haydée Milanés a dúo con Pablo Milanés. The songs were thoroughly handpicked in a bid to strike a balance between famous and not so famous songs written by her father from the late 1960s to the 1980s.
 
There’s no doubt that June 11 in Havana will feature a one-of-a-kind concert. Haydée and Pablo Milanés will get kicks -the rehearsals are being fun too- out of singing those songs together. The audience will wallow in songs they have hummed and have probably been a part of their lives, as they will listen to premiering tunes they could have never heard of.
 
And they will also revel in the performance of great musicians and instrumentalists, such as percussion maestro Enrique Plá, guitarists Raúl Verdecia and Roberto Gómez, percussionists Yaroldi Abreu and Guillermo del Toro, and bassist Frank Rubio. And even though the best keepsake out of a development is the chance to live it out, it’s worth underscoring that this concert will be fully shot for a DVD to be released by the Bis Music record label run by Artex.
 
Bis Music
Calle 21 no 459 entre E y F, Vedado, Havana, Cuba.
 
Tel: 7838 1394/ 78383693/ 8383840