She is one of Cuba's best known female voices and has performed with many of the greats, such as the Valdez brothers and Martin Rojas. Omara is known for her fluid, sweet and resonant voice. She has popularized such songs as "Veinte Anos," "Lagrimas Negras," and "Siboney."
In 1974 she recorded what would become her most critically acclaimed album, besides the recent Buena Vista Social Club recordings, with guitarist Martin Rojas. In this historically important album she sings praises to Salvador Allende and the people of Chile a year after the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. Among many other hits, she also praises the work of Ernesto "Che" Guevara in the beautiful "Hasta Siempre."
OmaraPortuondo is one of Cuba's greatest vocalists, and has been acclaimed as such almost from the day she started singing professionally in the late forties.
OmaraPortuondo was born in Cayo Hueso (Havana) in 1930.
Omara, her sister Aidee, and Elena Burke (who got Omara her first real gig) decided to form a quartet with three female and one male voices, but after meeting with Aida Diestro, they approached Moraima Secada, and formed the Cuarteto d'Aida, with Diestro directing and playing piano, and four female voices harmonizing.
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