Miénteme by Olga Guillot

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Olga Guillot (born October 9, 1922 in Santiago de Cuba - died July 12, 2010 in Miami, FL ) is a famous Cuban singer who was known to be the queen of bolero. She is a native of the Cuban city of Santiago. In 1954, she recorded her song "Mienteme" ("Lie to Me"), which became a hit across Latin America, and earned her three consecutive awards back home in Cuba as Cuba's best female singer. 1958 proved to be an important year for Guillot, as she toured Europe for the first time, including stops in Italy, France, Spain and Germany. She sang alongside the equally legendary Édith Piaf during a concert held in Cannes. Olga Guillot kept a house in Cuba as she travelled around the world with her music, apart from her house in Mexico. But Guillot opposed Fidel Castro's Government, and, in 1961, she decided to leave Cuba for good and establish herself in Venezuela. Not long after that, she left Venezuela, making Mexico her only permanent residence country. First, jukeboxes were confiscated from corner bars and nightclubs (there were as many as 20,000 jukeboxes in Havana in the 1950s). Then, in 1961, at the First Congress of Writers and Artists, music was defined as an organ of integration into the new Revolutionary society. The bolero came to be seen as a reactionary genre, in bad taste, and ultimately, banned. Cuba's world-class composers and performers, many of whom had brought the genre to its golden age, were abruptly silenced. Finally, in 1968, in the Ofensiva Revolucionaria -- the Cuban equivalent of China's Cultural Revolution -- most of the 1,200 cabarets and dancehalls for which Havana was known were shut down (with only a couple of exceptions, including the notable Tropicana). Bolero lovers and performers were left with no viable venues. An entire generation was traumatized by loss of the very words and music that had defined the key moments of their lives -- coming of age, first loves, stolen kisses, secret romances.

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  • Hermosa voz, enamorada y visceral, Olguita Guillot, única, cada canción un sentimiento, te recordaremos siempre, esta canción es tu himno, que disfrutes en la compañía del Señor.

  • Que linda letra y que bonita melodia. Descanse en paz Olga Guillot que llevó a Cuba en su voz por todo el mundo.

  • Olga Guillor ha muerto, el bolero, digo EL AMOR pierde un interprete de lujo

  • Olga de Cuba, Olga del Mundo, Olga siempre Olga! Gracias por tu legado musical, Puerto Rico tambien reconoce tu grandeza. Estoy seguro que ahora que partes a la eternidad seguiras viva en todos los que te amamos.

  • @PureSoapCleans eso es cierto existe un dsico con sandro el ultimo con canciones de memesolis y faltaba yo son muchas grabaciones show teatrales como aquel que hizo en espana con sara montiel y celia gamez nostalgia es un gran legado ya se han marchado las grnades cantantes cubna

  • @RUDDIBARDOT, ciertamente, fue la mas grande y maestra de maestros. Muchos que la siguieron la han imitado y aprendido mucho de ella. Pero ella fue la original, la que lo empezó todo. Hay muchas grabaciones de Olga casi desconocidas por la mayoría del público, verdaderas joyas musicales que ella con esa voz única e interpretación superior hizo verdaderas creaciones. Su nombre queda escrito en los anales musicales de nuestro continente.

  • @PureSoapCleans que grande era la mas divina de todas

  • QUE TRIZTE notica haber perdido a esta joya de cuba

  • Una excepcional artista, mujer, cubana, patriota y ser humano que partió a la gloria del Señor. Mi corazón está muy triste con esta partida, pero lleno de gratitud por todo lo que ella fue, es y será siempre. Puso el nombre de Cuba muy alto. Cuba se siente orgullosa de que este maravilloso ser humano haya nacido en su tierra. La tiranía castrocomunista la maltrató y encarceló, ella se fue pero con ella también se llevó a su Cuba por la que luchó siempre. Descansa en Paz Olga de Cuba.

  • CON ESTA PARTIDA , LA FELICIDAD ,ILUSIONES ,Y ESPERANZAS , SE TRUNCAN , PERO EN NUESTROS CORAZONES , PERMANECERA ,SIEMPRE COMO PARADIGMA DE COMPRENSION , NOBLEZA Y FORTALEZA ...DE UNA VOZ IMCOMPARABLE !!! ,COMO ES Y SERA, LA REINA DEL BOLERO ..!!! QUE SOLO LE FALTO , CUMPLIR UNO DE SUS GRANDES SUEÑOS ,VER LIBRE A CUBA ....!!! MI MAS SENTIDO PESAME A TODOS SUS FAMILIARES Y AL MUNDO DEL ESPECTACULO .DESDE ANTOFAGASTA CHILE ..INECITA

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