The best new artist of 2022 just might be a Cuban American grandmother living out her dream of being a professional musician at the age of 95.
At the age of 95, Angela Alvarez is nominated for a Latin Grammy for best new artist.
Angela's story began in Cuba, where she learned to play guitar and started writing songs as a young teen. She eventually married and started a family. After the Cuban Revolution, she made the painful decision in 1962 to send her four kids to the United States as part of the mass exodus of 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children fleeing communist oppression.
In the years that followed, she always played music for her children and then, when the time came, her grandchildren. That includes her composer grandson, Carlos José Alvarez. “One day, I called her up and I said ‘I want you to sing me the songs that you compose,’” Carlos said. “She walks out of a room that was like more than 40 songs and the songs were like a diary.”
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