Olga Guillot LAST adisa Dan in Miami

6 hours 49 minutes ago Friends, family, colleagues and fans will give us the Queen of the Bolero LAST Olga Guillot a farewell at a Mass in Miami late on Wednesdays. Continue reading the printed article Guillot died on Monday after suffering a heart attack. Tena 86 years. In the last days, artists, officials and Cuban exiles have cried and praised the singer for his unique way of performing songs that are now classical, as T I got used "and" Sabor am. " Guillot was the first Latin American singer who did appear in the emblematic Carnegie Hall in New York and during his career harvest 10 platinum and 14 gold records. "There is no doubt that it was probably the best bolero singer of all time and which helped to bring the genre to a new openly put YMS huge, "said Arturo Gomez, music director of the radio station KUVO in Denver. In Miami, the Cuban community Also the record as a person who consistently pronounce against the communist scheme. A year earlier, Guillot participated in a march led by Gloria Estefan to support the Damas de Blanco, a group of wives and relatives of prisoners in Cuba POLICIES. Vicky Roig, a colleague and good friend who Guillot walk with her into the march, how to record the fans chanted his name and waved. "How I wish the people of Miami!" Guillot said there will be, according to Roig. "She was happy to see how to answer him." Guillot was born in Santiago de Cuba and the 13 years started to recognize his talent, winning second place in a singing competition with her sister. At age 20, and Bean performed with Edith Piaf. Pas in 1961 left her two years AFTER the revolucin which brought to power of Fidel Castro, and he settled in M Mexico, where pas much of his life and where he was widely admired. His voice was loud and guttural, and acting the simple and exciting. "She was very particular about the songs she sang," said G mixed. "Tena to sing songs with which they could identify. And always the quality of the letters was flawless." Guillot With the death of Cuban musicians are fewer left from their generation, including percussionist Cândido Camero, 89 years, and the pianist Bebo Valds, 91, among others. "We estn being very few," said Gmez. For many, their songs bring back memories of love and spite. Gmez record his father pona his wife "I got used T," his favorite Guillot. "With Olga somehow lose, may be said, the symbol of the community in exile" said Gomez, for whom the singer had an almost unmatched international stature. In an interview with the AP in 2007, Guillot said that in his coraznslo loaded with pain. "It is unfortunate that your own pas, where t is born … complete one generation does not know us … know nothing of which we have represented Cuba in exile in the world. Many of us have been named Cuba's very high and we do not know. "The memorial service will be on Wednesdays at 5 pm in the Church of St. Michael in Miami.

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