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She asserts that singing was always her passion and the piano was her first love but nevertheless Idania Valdes’s family’s musical tradition was not the cause of her decision to follow this path.

It was rather a vocation that shaped her personality from her earliest days on.

Today Idania is one of the most recognizable voices among the new generations of Cuban singers. She also possesses an exquisitely crafted stage presence and with her conscientious work in music she is carving out a solid path for herself on the Cuban music scene.

Much of it, she recognizes, is thanks to the phenomenon that was the Buena Vista Social Club that she joined at the tender age of twenty.

It still forms an essential part of her sound today but the success of the most important Cuban all-star group of recent years hasn’t fogged the lens of her artistic ambitions. Her sights are still set on a solo career, a goal that takes up all of her time.

Your grandfather,