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There are facts that say that the musical talent is on the genes, and it is transmitted from one generation to another.
This is the case of the Cuban singer Haydée Milanés, whose name can only be associated with his father, the celebrated guitarist, composer and songwriter of the Nueva Trova, Pablo Milanés.
At her 35 years, Haydée is considered a remarkable artist and has shared stage with musicians like Hernán López-Nussa, Roberto Carcasses, Descemer Bueno, Polito Ibáñez, Omara Portuondo, David Blanco and José Luis Cortés, among others.The shy and jazzy style impregnated on her songs has been compared to a Norah Jones, born and raised on this Caribbean island.
A dazzling start
Haydée Milanés was born in Havana in 1980. At the age of 6, she began studying piano and singing at the Elementary School of Music Manuel Saumell, place that has seen other stars of the contemporary Cuban music like X Alfonso and Harold López -Nussa. Later, at the Conservatory Amadeo Roldán, she learned music theory and choral direction.
Her career officially began in 1999, when she joined as vocalist to the jazz quartet of the Hernán López-Nussa, great Cuban pianist and composer. The following year, she made her first international tour, playing at the Heineken Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
In Rio de Janeiro, the quartet recorded the album From Havana to Rio, featuring other Cuban stars such as Pancho Ferry and the renowned Cuban percussionist Tata Güines.
Haydée Milánes and the Cuban music scene
Back in Cuba, she began working in the famous The Fox and the Crow (La Zorra y el Cuervo) Club in Havana, which often jam sessions with Roberto Carcasses, director of the Interactivo musical project.In 2001 she traveled with Descemer Bueno to New York city, where she played much of the repertoire of this Cuban composer and singer. Closely linked to this work, songs like Tu nombre, Libélula, Tú y yo y Tanto amar where popularized.
In 2003 she collaborated again with Roberto Carcasses and Interactivorecording one song of Cool Cool Filin, innovative and experimental compilation album. A year later, she recorded an album with Descemer Bueno´s songs, entitled Haydée.Haydée Milanés has also participated in the soundtracks of important Cuban films like Tres veces and La noche de los inocentes, the documentary En el cuerpo equivocado and the short film Al día siguiente.
The Golden heiress of the Milanes family
Other notable endeavors includes the albums A la felicidad and Haydée Milanés en vivo, the latter a live album released in 2008, featuring his father, Pablo Milanés and her sisters Lynn and Suylén Milanés.Throughout her career, Haydée Milanés has covered with her voice musical genres as diverse as jazz, soul, pop, funk, rock, Brazilian rhythms and, more recently, Filin.
Although there is a substantial difference between her and her father in vocal range, Haydée itself admits that Pablo Milanés remains as her inspiration, pride and a commitment to improve every day.
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At age 10 Haydée went on stage for the first time to sing alongside her father, the renowned Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés. Maybe it was that very day that she discovered her future. 28 years later, Haydée released her most recent album: a tribute to the work of Pablo and Cuban music, featuring 11 songs sung in duet written by her father from the 60s to the 80s.
Haydée manages to put the song in your bones, because all the truth and emotion of what she sings, beyond being heard, is lived. And although she is quite young to be considered an essential icon of Cuban music, the truth is that she is close to being one. One thing can be said without a doubt: that she, among the many young Cuban artists, is a woman who has known how to build her career and today she has many good stories to tell.
Creating that whole-body feeling in every song is not easy, and she knows it, but the key is to live for the music, enjoy every moment, and believe in every story she tells/sings. In her own way, timidly extroverted, she makes El Muro del Malecon magically unique when she sings it, and she gives Havana a thousand different meanings when she gives it her voice.
Haydée has chosen to live in Havana because this is where her roots, her traditions, her memories and what she loves most, her family are. According to her, Havana is a woman that she loves with all the strength of her heart. That is why she told us, when we interviewed her in Gibara, that she is thinking of a campaign to motivate Habaneros (residents of Havana), by birth and by adoption, to take better care of this city, which is without a doubt one of the most beautiful in the world.
As history has shown, art is one of the most effective mobilizing weapons that exist. So, through design, Clandestina will support all of the music Haydée wants to give to Havana and its people in order to preserve and take care of the city.
She has a way of hypnotizing her audience, just as she did in Gibara. There was a beautiful chemistry between the sea, the magic, and the depths of this coastal city, the likes of which can only be matched in this setting. After all, the Gibara film festival gives Habaneros, Holguineros, and people from all over a reason to gather, watch movies, dance, meet new people, forget about work, pain, and stress and spend the day and night celebrating in a magical place.
Haydée returned to Gibara twelve years after her first appearance and she was bigger and had more to say—more Haydée to exhibit. She was more eager to connect with her saints, religion, and the mysticism that allows her to connect with her listeners, with the stage she stands on, with the microphone, with the piano, with her words.
Undoubtedly, her musical heritage, and especially the influence of her father Pablo Milanés, has made Haydée's career grow. But her influence does not just come from the opportunities that her father has given her, but all the musical referents she has had since she was born and all the experiences she has gained by sharing the stage with greats such as Chico Buarque, Adalberto Álvarez, Descemer Well, Tata Güines, Fito Páez, Pedro Aznar, Luiz Melodía, Issac Delgado and Omara Portuondo, among others.
Haydée could not live without Havana. As she says: she takes it with her everywhere. The truth is that this city will never let her go either.
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