By: Ileana Ferrer Fonte.10 de agosto de 2011, 09:13Havana, Aug 10 (Prensa Latina) Prestigious singers and songwriters from Uruguay, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Paraguay and Cuba gave a concert Tuesday in the Cuban capital, All the Voices, dedicated to the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, for his 85th birthday. The ALBA Culture Center hosted the concert, sponsored by the Oswaldo Guayasamin Foundation in Ecuador. That institution has previously celebrated what it called "the birthday of a man who has raised to the highest levels the values of dignity, sovereignty and international solidarity."">By: Ileana Ferrer Fonte.10 de agosto de 2011, 09:13Havana, Aug 10 (Prensa Latina) Prestigious singers and songwriters from Uruguay, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Paraguay and Cuba gave a concert Tuesday in the Cuban capital, All the Voices, dedicated to the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, for his 85th birthday. The ALBA Culture Center hosted the concert, sponsored by the Oswaldo Guayasamin Foundation in Ecuador. That institution has previously celebrated what it called "the birthday of a man who has raised to the highest levels the values of dignity, sovereignty and international solidarity."">

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  • 08 / 11 / 2011

By: Ileana Ferrer Fonte.10 de agosto de 2011, 09:13Havana, Aug 10 (Prensa Latina) Prestigious singers and songwriters from Uruguay, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Paraguay and Cuba gave a concert Tuesday in the Cuban capital, All the Voices, dedicated to the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, for his 85th birthday. The ALBA Culture Center hosted the concert, sponsored by the Oswaldo Guayasamin Foundation in Ecuador.

That institution has previously celebrated what it called "the birthday of a man who has raised to the highest levels the values of dignity, sovereignty and international solidarity."

In his opening remarks, Pablo Guayasamin, son of famous late painter Oswaldo Guayasamin, said he was full of emotion and happiness for helping to make the event happen.

Uruguayan Daniel Viglietti, Argentine Raly Barrionuevo, Peruvian Marisela Perez, Chilean Francisco (Pancho) Villa, Paraguayan Ricardo Flecha, Bulgarian Yordanka Kristova, and the Cuban band Buena Fe attended the two-hour concert.

For Friday, the Guayasamin Foundation is preparing another concert, Serenata de la Fidelidad (Serenade of Fidelity) at Havana's Karl Marx Theater, on the eve of Fidel Castro's birthday, Aug. 13.

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