Susana Harp

The Mexican singer, Susana Harp, has focused her work in gathering information and making diffusion of Mexican music, essentially of her own state, Oaxaca. In 1997 Susana Harp, ends her first production, titled Xquenda, including representative and mostly unknown songs of three of seven Oaxaca’s regions, in Spanish as in Zapoteco, these compositions are since 1850 until the date of recording. Béele Crúu is the title of her second album includes songs in Spanish, Zapoteco and Mazateco. Taking up again instruments like Marimba (isthmus region), Jaranas and Requintos Jarochos (Papaloapan’s region). El último amor is the title of a bolero composed by Álvaro Carrillo, which has never been hear before. In October of 2002, Susana ends her third production titled Mi Tierra, together with the Music Band of the state of Oaxaca and orchestrated by the teacher Eliseo Martínez, includes a collection of the most representative traditional songs of Oaxaca, that’s why it’s only launched on this region. On April 30, 2003, Susana concludes her fourth production titled “Arriba del cielo”, which is a collection of lullabies, folk songs, nanas and games. This is a thematic C.D. made for children; going from a prehispanic Mayan lullaby to actual children composer’s songs. As singer, nowadays she investigates and search for the songs that would be included in her next production, which will be launch on November 2005. Susana Harp has studied Sing with the Tenor Ricardo Sánchez, the Soprano Rosa María Diez teacher of the National Conservatory of México and with the Mezzosoprano Josefina Cabrera, teacher of Bellas Artes. Now she is student of Miguel Ángel Tapia. She has sing in the most important forums of our country: Bellas Artes, Ollin Yoliztli, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Anfiteatro Simon Bolívar, Teatro Macedonio Alcalá, Teatro Degollado and many more. Her interest of diffusion has taken her to many native communities. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.