Singer
Pedro Luis Ferrer Captivates
Public in Las Tunas
February 16, 2009, 3:00 pm
By Yamisleydis Montoya Pupo
yami@rvictoria.icrt.cu
Translation: Ernesto Gutierrez Pino
Las Tunas. - After 30 years of absence in the
most important cultural scenarios in the East of Cuba, the
songwriter and singer Pedro Luis Ferrer captured the public
of this city, with his performance in Tunas Theater.
The famed singer, applauded by the
spectators, played the
three-double-string guitar
in an outstanding way to sing musical genres
like guaracha, changüí and son.
Ferrer interpreted anthological songs such as
La vaquita Pijirigua,
Aunque se caiga el cielo,
Pelito de mi bigote, Estimado Mario Agüei,
with which this guitarist, show the social reality and the
human attitudes and transforms them into reflexive topics.
Pedro Luis Ferrer began to work as an amateur
musician in the second half of the 1960's and as a
professional one in 1970, when he began to carry out
presentations in countries like Poland, Norway, Finland,
Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Mexico, Peru and United
States.
In his records there are productions like
Debajo de mi voz, Espuma y arena, and Ciento
por ciento cubano,
among others.
