First Artist, Ready for Havana Concert

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Olga Tañon in Havana

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Grammy Awarded singer Olga Tañón,  arrived in Cuba to take part in the concert "Peace without Borders", next Sunday  in Havana.

The Puerto Rican singer will open the list of foreign artist in this concert, scheduled to begin at 14:00 hrs (Havana Local Time) in the Square of the Revolution. A TV and Internet  live broadcasting is planned. Cuban TV will also  transmit live satellite and by open-air national channel. The signal can be used freely in any country and for any television channel, by  radio or Internet.

The other participants listed are Amaury Pérez (Cuba), Danny Rivera (Puerto Rico), Cucú Diamante and Yerbabuena (Cuba-Venezuela), Juan Fernando Velasco (Ecuador), Jovanotti (Italia), Juanes (Colombia), Luis Eduardo Aute (España), Miguel Bosé (España), Orishas (Cuba), Silvio Rodríguez (Cuba), Van Van (Cuba) Carlos Varela (Cuba), Víctor Manuel (España) and X Alfonso (Cuba).

 
Artists and the public have been asked to dress in white color, as symbol of peace. The concert won't have political messages of any nature. The local artists and foreigners will be limited to sing their good known songs. The entrance will be free.

In a visit to the Musical Conservatory Amadeo Roldán in Havana, Olga Tañón was received by the students and people gathered there. "I never had the privilege of going to a school like this", she said.

The Amadeo Roldan is the oldest music conservatory in Cuba.

Admired by the artistic level of the students of the visited school,  she said to the auditory: “I will repeat something that someone told me about this visit: you will enter to a country where there is a musician in each corner', so for me it is a privilege to be here.

The Puerto Rican singer invited a group of students from the Amadeo Roldan Conservatory to make the opening of the concert next to her, “to demonstrate to the whole world that Cuba is more alive than ever.”