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TEARS AND RUMBA

XIOMARA LAUGART
featuring
Axel Tosca Laugart, Roman Lajara, Luis Quintero, Yunior Terry, Javier Port & Gerardo Contino

[JD368]
[ Binaural + CD ]
  1. Las Perlas de tu Boca     4:22
  2. Sabor Una Tumba Una Rumba     4:41
  3. Sitieria     5:22
  4. Viente Años     4:11
  5. Nadie Se Salva de la Rumba     3:57
  6. Reclamo Mistico     3:06
  7. Juramento     4:15
  8. La Mujer de Antonio     3:42
  9. Y Tu Que Haz Hecho     3:54
10. Ausencia     4:18
11. Descarga Xiomara     4:44
12. Reclamo Mistico (Alternate)     3:22
Xiomara Laugart: lead vocals
Axel Tosca Laugart: vocals, clave
Román Lajara: guitar, tres
Luis Quintero: congas, percussion     		Yunior Terry: bass
Javier Porta: flute, vocals
Gerardo Contino: vocals.
For singers recording a collection of classic tunes can be viewed as a rite of passage.   These classics, after all, have helped define a generation.   Jazz vocalists face this when they interpret the songs of Cole Poiter and George Gershwin along with many others that make up the great American Song Book.   Cuban music has a significant canon as well.   Songs which are not just memoiable to Cubans, but well known favorites that resonate throughout Latin Ameiica.

On her new record, her third for Chesky Records, Xiomara Laugart steps up to the plate with her own distinctive style to interpret some Cuban classics from the golden era of the 1920s.

“People are familiar with Cuban rhythms but they don't know the songs or the composers,” said Laugart, who came to New York City in 1998 from Havana.  “That's what I wanted to do, introduce these songs to a new generatlon.”

Lagrimas y Rumba is a fine introduction to the singer-songwriter's driven trova style from the city of Santiago, and features works by two extiemely influential composers of that era, Maria Teresa Vera and Miguel Matamoros.   Laugart grew up listening and singing these tunes with her father who encouraged her to sing, starting at the age of five.   “We heard these songs on the radio and everybody listened to the radio then,” she said of her Havana childhood.

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