Magia Negra: The Beginning

The grande dame of Cuban music, whose roots stretch back to the golden age of music hall and the popular balls of the 1940s, has returned to the studio to recreate her first ever record, Magia Negra, over half a century after its original 1958 recording, when she was twenty five and still part of the famous Cuarteto d Aida. This emotive album bears magnificent testimony to history, the singer and last surviving original member of the legendary Buena Vista Social Club conjuring up a playful hall of mirrors in which we have the pleasure of glimpsing echoes of times past, the exuberance of the jazz big bands and the eternal melodies of popular song.