Promoter Lazarus announced, on Wednesday, the cancellation of the concerts of the Cuban singer Omara Portondo, scheduled to be held this month in Lisbon and Porto, for reasons beyond the artist’s control.
“For reasons outside of Lazarus, the Colosseum and the artist, O’Mara Portondo, the concerts scheduled for July 8 and 14, in Porto and Lisbon, respectively,” the promoter informed, without explaining the reason for the cancellation..
The opening show for these two concerts was in charge of the fado singer Diana Vilariño. According to the promoter’s statement, refunds of tickets already purchased must be requested within up to two months, starting from the date of the event, at the venues from which they were purchased.
The now-cancelled concerts were two of three scheduled in Portugal, as part of Omara Portuondo’s farewell tour, aged 92.
The first, and the only one that was not cancelled, took place on July 1, at the Cine Teatro Avenida, in Castelo Branco, where the Cuban singer performed songs from her latest work, recorded in May.
Umaru Portondo, often described as a singer and lady of Cuban music, had already performed in 2022 in Portugal, at the Músicas do Mundo festival in Sines, also on this farewell tour. According to the official biography, Umaru Portondo, born in Havana in 1930, started out as a dancer at the Tropicana cabaret, following in the footsteps of her sister Heidi, and was part of the vocal quartet Las Daida until she decided to pursue. solo career.
Black MagicThe first album under his own name was released in 1959. Since then, he has traveled in and out of Cuba in collaboration with many foreign musicians, combining traditional Cuban melodies that he learned from his parents, with jazz, bossa nova, bolero, guajira and other Latin rhythms.
features in the album Buena Vista Social Club (1996) and in the film of the same name by Wim Wenders, in 1999, in which she starred in a duet with Ibrahim Ferrer and Compay Segundo, which gave her even greater international fame and made her an icon of Cuban music. The new singer’s farewell tour has begun in Mexico and includes performances in Brazil, the United States and Europe.
