Cancion hambre blanca rosa gil biography
Blanca rosa gil - biografía, historia y legado musical.
Early Life
Blanca Rosa Gil was born in a small village called Perico in Matanzas, Cuba on August 26, 1937. She was the youngest child of 10, born in a small home on Fresneda Number 2.
Cancion hambre blanca rosa gil biography
Shortly afterwards the family moves to a neighborhood in Havana called El Narajito. She grew up in a musical family and nearly everybody in the home sang well. Her father was a tenor and her mother a mezzo-soprano. Of the 10 children, all but the three oldest boys sang.
Blanca rosa gil
As Gil would later joke that her oldest brothers “Francisco, Reglo and Roberto couldn’t even sing in the shower. All the other children were blessed by God with beautiful voices.” Her brother Pedro was the first to sing publicly as he would sing with the local big band in town called Orquesta Casino Deportivo in Perico.
By age five, Blanca Rosa was the center of attraction in the family since she would readily perform and sing for anybody who would listen. Later on, she and her two sisters, Rita and Mercedes started performing at sc