Luis carbonell biography

«Raised in a family of musicians and reciters, with an innate sense of the stage that amplified the tenacity of the studio, Luis Carbonell was able to circumvent the pitfalls of an environment vitiated in realization and fruition. His hands acquired a new expressiveness when reciting, but also gained the resonance of the piano with an unusual lightness and skill. His keen sense of music helped his performances. He brought to his voice something of a traditional bongo player, decanted by a Creole refinement, the flexibility of the lived and the assumed. He sounded different. He was inimitable. He had a unique place that his imitators would not reach, because by imitating him without his attributes, they would impose an image of vulgarity that did not exist in him.»

This is how Reynaldo González, winner of the National Prize for Literature, described his impressions of Luis Mariano Carbonell. The references, which are also accurate, describe a peculiar figure, sui generis and original like few others in the cultural framework of the lar

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