Diana Fuentes
TXT: HUMBERTO MANDULEY PHOTO: RÓMULO SANS

Prayers from the African cultures settled on the island, urban rock, E.E. Cummings texts set to music, melodies with a disturbing flavour of Brazilian batucada: she will sing whatever is asked of her. Member of the group Síntesis, the visible leaders of Cuban rock, she also often appears in concerts and recordings with other artists such as David Torrens, Carlos Varela, Sue Herrod, Aldo López Gavilán, Equis Alfonso, and Esteban Puebla. Diana’s training was rigorously academic and her name is becoming more and more well known to followers of the new musical currents that happen here. When she sings, it is melody in a state of grace manipulating nuances including those sometimes anonymous ones of the choral singers. A great little perfect pearl of song shining among the paraphernalia of scenery, black rhythms of ancestral drums and electric whiplash of heavy rock with all the naked beauty of her instrument: the voice. Diana sings as she is: beautiful...

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