MEMORIA
PANAMÁ the latter he accompanied artists such as Mirta Silva, Kiko Mendive, Celia Cruz and Amalia Aguilar.
It is also said that she presented at the Blanquita Amaro Show on channel 2 and on the program of the unforgettable Silvia de Grasse on channel 4 of the Eleta Almarán brothers.
At the level of the hotel services, she was in the historic Hotel Washington and the Club de Extranjeros, in Colón, the first modern hotel of the pacific city, El Panama inaugurated in nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and in the Hotel Continental, when it made live shows with bands, orchestras and quality artists.
There is even talk of sponsorship, such as The Camel Caravan, during the fifties and sixties, being heard in the radio waves of HOQ Radio, for seven years. Green has magic She sang boleros, wrote that Cuban fan Guillermo Cabrera Infante,
but Violeta also made magic by allowing jazz to shine like a real star.
“ Jazz, like all art, speaks a universal language, accessible to all and that to learn it requires no special ethnographic study. Jazz is supported musically in two columns: spontaneous improvisation and direct contact with the public, as was common in Europe during the time of Greek tragedy or the Commedia dell’ arte, and as today only occurs in Puppets theater or football stadiums,“ says Hans Christoph Buch.
And that was the sea where she swam at her leisure. Panama has its share of history in that chain of relays that is jazz. To name them, as if summoning their festive souls: Luis Carl Rusell, Santi Di Briano, Gene White, Carlos Garnette, Mauricio Smith, Fred Ramdeen, Harold Zaggy Berry, Jimy Maxwell, Danny Clovis, Clarence Martin, Gladstone Bat Gordon, Billy Cobham, Carlos Ward, Víctor Vitín Paz. And, on the level of her female peers: Betty Williamson, Carol Greaves and Barbara Wilson, to mention the most popular.
Noel Foster Steward establishes Violeta as an exponent of be-bop jazz and jamm session from 1948 to 1996. Jazz sessions began from eleven o ´- clock until nine o’ clock the next day, every weekend. Mainly, they performed in the Kelvin room owned by Kelvin Fredricks.
Foster points to Barbara Wilson as another vocalist in the capital, as part of the seventy-eight jazz session musicians.
Do not believe me, but some connoisseurs suggest that Violeta was taken by the voice of Ella Fitzgerald when she arrived in our country and performed at the Teatro Central for a week in the mid-fifties, and as a result of that spell began their relationship with jazz music, as she herself stated: her musical model was Ella.
Finally, there is on the web a tribute to this jazz goddess, made by Gerardo Maloney, where, according to the singer, she traveled with her voice to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua and even the United States, playing guarachas, Boleros, waltz, soul, bee-bop, bossa nova, calipsos and more to the delight of restless spirits.
And for those spirits, a scoop unveiled by the only specialist dedicated to the deep study of our popular music, Mario Garcia Hudson, who found four songs recorded by our diva, accompanied by the orchestra Los Embajadores, by the director Gustavo Escobar. That’ s right, ladies and gentlemen; we can still hear it again, forever.
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