Merceditas Valdés

b. 14 Oct 1928, Havana, Cuba, d. June 1996, Cuba. At age 12 Valdés sang inside a competition and received an award. In a short time she was heard frequently on radio and in live shows, sometimes in chapel. She frequently performed yoruba and drawn favourable attention because of this and for performing other material inside the custom of Cuban folk music. She constructed a good pursuing and due to this was asked by historian Fernando Ortiz to take part in his lecture trips where he expounded upon Cuban music’s African roots. This led with time to Valdés learning to be a leading exponent from the music linked to santeria. She started documenting this music within the 40s and toured having a organization aimed by Ernesto Lecuona and she also caused Obdulio Morales, Sergio Vitier and Guillermo Barreto. With Lecuona she made an appearance on tv, notably in Serenata Cubana, therefore expanding her target audience even more. Valdés performed thoroughly in Cuba and in addition performed abroad. For an interval, Valdés seems to have experienced problems entering the united states but these appear to have been solved as past due in her lifestyle she performed there, offering concerts at esteemed venues. Also past due in her lifestyle, she was connected with Jane Bunnett and will be seen executing within the film Spirits Of Havana (2000) where Bunnett’s solid musical links with Cuba are analyzed. Although Valdés was for many decades among Cuba’s mostly respectable performers, reports claim that her last years had been spent in poverty.