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Donato Poveda.- very good cuban singer

pola baker | Great Neck, New York | 10/27/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Donato Poveda was formerly in the duo donato & Estefano, where

he had a pop style. I prefer much better his newer style.

The best song in this cd is SERENATA SANTIAGUERA which is a very

nostalgic song about the cities if Cuba, and which he sang in

a tribute given to Celia Cruz. Donato Poveda is a very good

singer for Cuban Standards.

For those who saw the movie DIRTY DANCING HAVANA NIGHTS, it is

Donato Proveda and the Troubadors that sing the cuban standard

LAMENTO CUBANO. I consider it the best song in the movie.

It is a cuban classic song by Eliseo Grenet. Yet in the movie,

it is presented as a pro-revolutionary, anti-batista song.

It is the scene where the american girl wanders in a Havana street and sees some musicians singing. The song is also partly

song by Diego Luna who plays Javier in the movie. It is a pity

that Donato Poveda does not get to sing it completely, because

the police comes in to arrest them.

It is even more disappointing that the song LAMENTO CUBANO was

not included in the original soundtrack of the movie DIRTY

DANCING HAVANA NIGHTS. I hope that it will be released in a future CD of Donato Poveda.

I hope that in the future Donato Poveda will consider recording a

CD of Cuban all-time classics romantic songs. It will be great.

Meanwhile I recommend this CD and specially the Cuban song

Serenata Santiaguera. Good luck Donato. You deserve it.



(note : LAMENTO CUBANO became a standard of mexican singer Toña

La Negra. Yet I consider the version by Donato Poveda better,

"more cuban" in the style of Buena Vista Social Club, with a

"son" or "guajira" beat.)"