{"id":964,"date":"2018-03-30T06:58:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T06:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salsalust.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/?p=964"},"modified":"2018-03-30T06:58:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T06:58:20","slug":"30-03-18-yousy-barbara-ruiz-en-brazos-de-mi-tierra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/?p=964","title":{"rendered":"30.03.18 : Yousy Barbara Ruiz &#8211; En Brazos De Mi Tierra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good day dear readers, listeners and blog followers.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, before writing the weekly blog post, I was checking the comments, as I usually do, and there encountered what I can describe as quite a surprise &#8211; a message from a Cuban artist!<\/p>\n<p>This is our guest for today, talented Cuban singer, ex <a href=\"http:\/\/salsalust.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/?p=857\">Las Chicas del Sol<\/a> vocalist, Yousy Barbara Ruiz,\u00a0currently residing at Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salsalust.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aaa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-966\" src=\"http:\/\/salsalust.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aaa-1024x875.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aaa-1024x875.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aaa-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aaa-768x656.jpg 768w, https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aaa-624x533.jpg 624w, https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aaa.jpg 1203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barbara was born in 1976 in Camaguey, Cuba, and as a daughter of a professor of music, displayed an interest to music and performance since an early age.<br \/>\nIn 1994 Barbara won the singing competition at the Cuba Libre music festival, and in 1995 the Buscando el Sonero contest on Cuban TV channel 6.<br \/>\nThat same year Barbara also participated in the Montreal Jazz Festival, being well received by the public for her great vocals and charisma.<\/p>\n<p>After a great reception, Barbarz decided to stay in Canada, to continue her musical career there.<br \/>\nIn 1998 she founded her own group with 9 more Cuban musicians living in Canada and the USA, called Barbata y Son Cuba.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salsalust.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/a3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-967\" src=\"http:\/\/salsalust.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/a3-1024x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/a3-1024x192.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/a3-300x56.jpg 300w, https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/a3-768x144.jpg 768w, https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/a3-624x117.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the Barbara won Latin music prizes in Canada, toured Europe and north america, and has been a member or collaborated with famous Cuban artists such as <a href=\"http:\/\/salsalust.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/?p=106\">Maravillas De Florida<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/salsalust.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/?p=34\">Ritmo Oriental<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/salsalust.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/?p=40\">Manolito Simonet<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/salsalust.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/?p=10\">Adalberto Alvarez<\/a>,\u00a0Mayito Rivera,\u00a0Haila Mompie, <a href=\"http:\/\/salsalust.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/?p=129\">Bamboleo<\/a> and non Cuban artists such as\u00a0El Gran Combo, Ricardo Lemvo, Grupo Niche, Jos\u00e9 Mangual,\u00a0Jimmy Sabater, Alfredo De La Fe and other.<\/p>\n<p>Also, over the years, she has released several albums, including &#8220;contra viento y marea&#8221;, &#8220;ya llego a la fiesta&#8221;, &#8220;heavy duty&#8221;, and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/store.cdbaby.com\/artist\/BarbaraRuiz\">La Cubanisima<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s song is a nice Son composition called &#8220;En Brazoz de mi Tierra&#8221;, longing for Cuba&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here it is;<br \/>\n\u00a1Disfruta la musica Cubana!<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MmDw2xD58IA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good day dear readers, listeners and blog followers. Last week, before writing the weekly blog post, I was checking the comments, as I usually do, and there encountered what I can describe as quite a surprise &#8211; a message from a Cuban artist! This is our guest for today, talented Cuban singer, ex Las Chicas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}