Haydée Milanés (born 1980

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Pablo Milanés Pablo Milanés Arias (24 February 1943 – 22 November 2022) was a Cuban guitar player and singer. He was one of the founders of the Cuban nueva trova, along with Silvio Rodríguez and Noel Nicola. His music, originating in the Trova, Son and ...

. Haydée Milanés is part of the Cuban fusion new scene. Her style is often compared to that of

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: shy, sultry, and jazzy.

Biography

Haydée Milanés grew up watching her father perform, practice, and write songs. At the age of 6, she began playing piano and singing at the

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Conservatory. She also started learning music theory and choral direction in the

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Conservatory, and finished her studies in

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where she studied old chant. The first time Haydée Milanés stepped onto a stage, it was to accompany her father on one of his songs, when she was 10 years old. After that, she performed as a chorister in several concerts, and in

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Professional Singer career

In 1999, she started to perform in the quartet of the Cuban pianist Hernán López Nussa. Her first musical tour occurred in 2000, as she was invited to the Heineken Festival in São Paulo (Brazil). This collaboration with Hernán López Nussa led her to record an album in Rio de Janeiro with renowned Cuban musicians such as

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or Pancho Ferry. The same year, she started performing frequently in Havana club la Zorra y el Cuervo. There, she regularly participated in jam sessions with Roberto Carcassés, director of the “Interactivo” music collective, with whom she collaborated in 2003 on the compilation Cool Cool Filin. Her first solo album, Haydée, came out in 2004 and was produced and written by

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. This album gave rise to a series of concerts in

Havana Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Pablo Milanés Pablo Milanés Arias (24 February 1943 – 22 November 2022) was a Cuban guitar player and singer. He was one of the founders of the Cuban nueva trova, along with Silvio Rodríguez and Noel Nicola. His music, originating in the Trova, Son and ...

and her sisters Lynn and Suylén Milanés. Since the death of her father in 2022, Milanés has distanced herself from regime "cultural institutions on the island." In November 2023 she sang a new version of the hymn "Virgen Mambisa" with exiled Cuban musicians in Miami that called for the liberation of Cuba.https://www.14ymedio.com/cuba/musicos-estrenaran-miami-virgen-mambisa_1_1089172.html

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