Doctor María Teresa Linares, current Director of the National Museum of Music is an outstanding studious of our musical roots, an excellent recording producer, restless researcher and defender of our musical identity, therefore national. She studied at the Municipal Conservatoire of Havana. Bachelor Degree in Literature and Hispanic Letters in the specialty of Cuban Studies and Doctor in Art Sciences.

Chasing the evolution of the guaracha until our days, she considers that it is called Son nowadays but it is having as essence the criollo fun and the social critizism, the celebration of the Cuban woman having an intention which is not precisely related to a love song, so, according to her viewpoint it is still a guaracha.

“I treasure those guarachas made in Cuba at the XIX century in text and in recordings. Starting an analysis of the context of the Cuban society, I realized it emerged as a musical phenomena in the vernacular theater. It is together with Punto Cubano one of the early genres dressing the Cuban nationality. I was also interested due to its actuality, because it knocks the door in our days in such staples as those of Pedro Luis Ferrer`s and Juan Formell`s. In Formell`s Por encima del nivel the mulattoe girl of our days is described, calling her sandunguera, which is the major figure in the guaracha. The word sandunga appears in XIX century to qualify the criolla grace”, expresses this outstanding cultural researcher.

Doctor Linares is an excellent musical producer. She admits to be captured by the ethnographic and folkloric music. I got closer first to the musical group, to the manifestation, I used to study them. Afterwards, I got involved with them. taking as starting point the historical researches and the musicological analysis, the recording started. It was in a local not in a studio with a portable recorder. In this recording the artist got in touch with the audience. I was interested in trapping this goblin emerging in the atmosphere, I just wanted to reflect this emotive ambience in the disc. For me, it was very important ''.

She thinks the producer must fall in love with the work and faced it with the largest passion and possible ability. Since the very beginning, he must be sure of his purposes and based on this, choose the group or the musician, the manifestation or work and try to achieve the most possible success. For this, it is necessary to carry out a deep study of the work, the artist, the style, making a team work. This labor needs great devotion and be open to any alternative, proposition and combination.

About the Cuban patrimony, she considers we are now amidst an enthusiastic project, a moment for qualified contribution from the young musicologists and although it is a quite expensive process, there is a concern about making high-quality recordings in the current music, boasting very genuine features. That`s the reason why Cuban music is still making the difference around the entire world.

She also stated that ''the restoration actions of the patrimony are maybe slower because they are more expensive, but I`m high on the quality of the future generations. Youngsters are still making history today for the future''.

Taken from the interview made to Doctor maría Teresa Linares by José Luis Estrada Betancourt for Juventud Rebelde Newspaper.