The Cuban singer Omara Portuondowho is on tour in the USA, painfully announced this Loss of the mother of his granddaughter Rossío, named Anabel.
Omara commented on her Facebook profile that she had not been on her social networks for some time and announced that the Anabel’s unexpected death occurred about 22 days ago.
“Incredible, humane woman and a big heart,” he said, without giving the cause of death.
Facebook recording / Omara Portuondo
The legendary artist added this He is in the United States presenting his VIDA tour along with some great musicians.
“We were in Chicago and Milwaukee and just left the airport for Michigan,” he said.
Omara has an only son, Ariel Jiménez Portuondowho is a songwriter and also his mother’s manager.
His granddaughter Rossío is 24 years old.
Hundreds of people expressed their condolences in the publication, including singer Haydée Milanés and presenter Abel Álvarez.
In February last year the one became known as The “Filin’s friend” announced that she was saying goodbye to the stage distant internationals with the VIDA world tour, which was scheduled to begin in Spain.
“I feel that it is a good time to personally say goodbye to my followers in the most distant lands, to which it seems more difficult for me to return since teleportation has not yet been invented,” he expressed in his announcement Farewell.
Days later, due to apparent misunderstanding of his message, the Diva warned that her career would not end after this tour.
“For me, singing is life, it’s my way of being. If you ask me about my favorite place, it will always be the stage, the song I sing, the next round of applause. As long as I have a voice and someone wants it.” “Hear me, allow me to sing,” he explained in a post on Facebook.
“I want to reach the most remote countries with this tour and then I will continue to be present at special events in Cuba and surrounding countries and of course record everything I can,” he said.
Omara, who turns 93 on October 29, had to do it to cancel a concert that was scheduled at the International Jazz Festival last June of Rochester (RIJF), New York, “due to circumstances beyond the control of the artist.”
This was stated by the organization of the festival in a statement in which it expressed its disappointment that the Cuban artist could not perform at the Kodak Hall of the Eastman Theater. The singer had to travel from Havana to the USA.
Omara’s agent reported that she was unable to arrive in Rochester in time for her appearance due to force majeure events, including air travel and U.S. immigration disruptions and delays.
Although it was not explicitly mentioned, everything indicated that the singer and the musicians accompanying her did not receive a visa to enter the US territory in time.