Haila Maria Mompié González. (1974. Las Tunas.)

Haila is one of the best Cuban music interpreters and also one of the most outstanding soneras of her generation.

She was born in January 289, 1974 in Las Tunas, oriental province of our country, daughter of an amateur singer and an stylist, she felt devotion for music since her early years, although started at dancing, she soon quick to approach Cuban traditional music.

A year after, she made her bow as soloist at ''Las Avenidas'' cabaret entering later ''Habana Son'' group conducted by saxophonist ''El Chino Lam''. In this same year, she featured the show ''Guajira Guantanamera'', achieving her first Mexico tour.

Around September 1994, Haila joins the aesthetic project ''Bamboleo'' highlighting her excellent vocal qualities and high improvisation level. As leading voice of this band, Haila recorded two CDs and made various international tours around scenes from Italy, Holland, United States, Belgium, France, Peru and Mexico, among others. It`s all to add to the huge work she made with this band to place it at the highest position in the popularity charts of our country.

In 1998, she joined a Leonel Limonta musical project and founded ''Azúcar Negra'' band capturing everyone`s attention and successing at numerous international tours around European and Latin American countries to feature the group`s first set managing to place it high at Cuban radio and TV charts.

In 2001, Haila starst her career as soloist achieving great acceptance. Her first CDE via Bis Music label saw the light, musically headed and produced by the well-known czuban interpreter Isaac Delgado. In this set, Haila shows, once more, her temper nad interpretative quality, her passion for musicmand after all, her cubanness.

Around 2000, 2001 and 2002, Haila performed at various Japanesse scenes sharing her talented voice with such luminaries as Cheo Feliciano, Oscar de León, Rey Ruiz, Celia Cruz, José Alberto El Canario, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Chucho Valdés, Muñequitos de Matanzas, Mario Rivera, Juan Manuel Ceruto, David Calzado e Isaac Delgado.

Haila also appears as interpreter in some CDs of remarkable Cuban musicians and in ""La Rumba Soy Yo'' CD, winner of 2001 Latin Grammy, exhibiting great versatility.

In 2002, she performed at scenes from United States together with Issac Delgado and his orchestra, she was also selected as guest in the famous Tropicana Cabaret, making various concerts in some European countries as part of ''Festival Cuba'' spectacle and joined the project Cuban Grammys with the luminaries Eliades Ochoa, Juan Formell, Sampling, Chucho Valdés, Los Papines and Ernán López-Nussa.

On April 25, 2003, the Diva del Son, presented her orchestra conformed by talented musicians, who are still with her in all national and international performances, making a new CD under Bis Music label with the musical direction of Juan Manuel Ceruto, approaching a live concert with a group of outstanding Cuban musicians at National Theater of Cuba.

This year, haila made in June, a remarkable tour around Europe and in July and August she performed together with David Calzado at various Japanesse scenes.

Excellent vocal qualities, professionality and huge love for music feature Haila María Mompié, being catalogued as one of the greatest soneras from the current generation of Cuban musicians.

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