Photo: Cuban Institute of Music.
Cuban singer Fara García Callava, who bore the stage name Farah María, died on Wednesday, as confirmed by a note on the social networks of the Cuban Institute of Music.
The institution mourned the death of the singer known as “La Gacela de Cuba”.
Farah started her career very early and was a symbol of Cuban grace, sensuality and mestizo beauty. She was a remarkable singer who knew how to choose her repertoire and showed her undeniable elegance and dominance on stage. family and friends, our most sincere condolences, ”the publication stated.
According to the newspaper Tribuna de La Habana, Farah could be accompanied by an entire orchestra and that unmistakable timbre led us to the image of the very Cuban woman who was aloof with her talent in the famous quartet Los Meme, by Meme Solis, together with Héctor Tellez and Miguel Ángel Piña, after replacing the sentimental song goddess (bolero) Moraima Secada.
His ability to grab the attention of thousands of fans with every move on the scene He leaves us picaresque themes such as El tiburon (no bathing on the promenade …), or his foray into tango with the anthology “Adiós Muchachos”, or a good son like “La negra Tomasa”, or in his highly personal versions of “La flor de la canela”, preceded only by the essential Ignacio Villa (Snowball).
However, we remember her in that song, ‘El pajaro Chogui’, ‘A tale’, for which she was internationally awarded, or her taste under the skin of the imposter, with the Cha Cha Chá, by maestro Enrique Jorrín, in the ” Alardoso “, or in his very popular” Jaws “, until he ventured into the work of Silvio Rodríguez with his excellent versions of” El mayor “and” The happy day that’s coming.
Master songs such as Adolfo Guzmán, Juan Almeida Bosque, Meme Solís, Silvio Rodríguez, Mario Aguirre, Juan Pablo Torres, Eddy Gaytán, Barrerita have written for her. He shared the stage in the Gran Teatro de La Habana “García Lorca”, with Josephine Baker and Bola de Nieve.