{"id":7755,"date":"2021-03-12T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=7755"},"modified":"2022-04-30T16:41:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T20:41:02","slug":"alma-cubana-leoni-torres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/alma-cubana-leoni-torres\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban soul \/ Leoni Torres"},"content":{"rendered":"

One day Leoni Torres got up and looked back at the past of her musical career and said: "Okay, I want to do something different." That day must have been Sunday, because Sundays are the calmest and most reflective days of the week, and in Leoni Torres's head there must have been some bolero son or a montuno <\/span>chill<\/span><\/i>-if that's possible-; something \u201ccalm\u201d with certain flourishes of the tres, the g\u00fciro, some maracas here and there, some congas. That day, he, a cautious artist, focused on his work reaching large audiences, decided to launch himself and mess with traditional music. In addition to the risk \u2014especially because of the risk. And it went well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, perhaps, was born <\/span>Cuban soul<\/span><\/i> (Puntilla Music, 2021); or when someone very close to him gave him the light: \u201cBrother, this is the way\u201d. That, why or how Leoni at 43 years old decided to turn to traditional genres, we do not know (and perhaps we will never know, given his reluctance to give interviews). We know that the composer and singer wanted not to repeat himself and the result is a clean, very acoustic album, with the septet as the main line-up, and romantic. Because yes, even when taking risks, Leoni Torres cannot stop being Leoni Torres. He sings to love, to the loss of that love, to loneliness for the loss of love; he also sings to the woman. That is his niche, his fertile ground.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cover of the album B\u00e1sico, No B\u00e1sico y Dirigido<\/i> Cuban soul<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n

The 10 songs of this phonogram, which goes from bachata to bolero, from son to chang\u00fc\u00ed, from guaracha to troubadour song, have that stamp. Your seal. But they also have the mark of Kelvis Ochoa, author of five songs on the plate; because if we do the exercise of guessing which song was written by whom, certain tricks of Kelvis will immediately come to mind. <\/span>I will continue<\/span><\/i>, for example, second track<\/em> and probably one of the future <\/span>hits<\/span><\/i> from the album, it's a very Kelvisian<\/em>; and when at the height of the seventh theme Leoni sings "I'm going to miss when the moon is in the room" we can not help but attribute such a scene to the inventiveness of the one from Habana Abierta, who serves as the musical producer of the album together with Leoni himself already Leonardo Gil Mili\u00e1n \u2014the latter also in charge of the arrangements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Reminding you<\/span><\/i> \u2014third cut, authored by Leoni as <\/span>I'll stay<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Are you<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>The last good-bye<\/span><\/i>\u2014 is undoubtedly a <\/span>hit <\/span><\/i>Of bars. If we were not in the midst of a pandemic and the possibility of dancing in a club, surrounded by people and beers, was not remote, this song would sound close to dawn and no one, absolutely no one, could stop singing it and enjoy it as it deserves . (Let's sigh... those times will come back).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n