With a standing ovation, those attending the 2023 Latin Grammy Awards in Seville greeted, at dusk on November 16, Omara Portuondo, who won the award for her album Vida, in the Best Traditional Tropical Album category.
Presented by the Danish label One World, and produced by Guatemalan singer Gaby Moreno, who shared with the remarkable Cuban artist the song Bolero a la Vida, the phonogram's spearhead, Omara revisits, with the collaboration of colleagues from several countries who admire her, 11 works from the Cuban and Latin American popular songbook that are part of her interpretative legacy.
Distinguished in her homeland with the National Music Award and the Félix Varela Order, Omara had won a Latin Grammy in 2009, for Gracias, and the Latin Recording Academy's Award for Musical Excellence in 2019.
The award could anticipate a new achievement for Vida in the 2024 Anglo-Saxon Grammy Awards, which days ago announced the nomination of the album among the most valuable contributions to tropical music for the final selection to be announced in February, in Los Angeles.
