Omara Portuondo performs Friday, Nov. 5, 8 p.m. at UNC’s Memorial Hall. Tickets are $10-$55. Read more of Sylvia Pfeiffenberger’s interview with Omara Portuondo at her blog, Onda Carolina. When song ...

The Cuban legend and Buena Vista Social Club veteran will perform a string of international dates starting April 19 in Los Angeles. By Judy Cantor-Navas Omara Portuondo, the 88-year-old Cuban legend ...

The queen of Caribbean vocalists is on the phone from Poland, chatting about a subject much on her mind lately: gratitude. "I am thankful for many things," Omara Portuondo said, and at 78 she has good ...

Omara Portuondo will turn 86 during her current tour of the U.S. "I'm not a little girl," she says, laughing, "but I feel like a little girl." Cuban singer Omara Portuondo came to international ...

The Buena Vista Social Club singer paid tribute to the late Cuban leader on Cuban TV. By Judy Cantor-Navas Omara Portuondo, the Cuban singer known around the world as the female voice of the Buena ...

Cuban singer Omara Portuondo came to international attention in the 1950s, when that country was less isolated than it has been since the Revolution. Her voice reached ears around the world again in ...