LILY-DOLORES
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This website was conceived as a tribute to the art of DOLORES PÉREZ. It is non-lucrative and it is a personal endeavor and a work of love, for, as a child, I came across her recordings of Maria La O, Rosa La China, and El Cafetal, and fell in love with her voice and her dramatic flair. Also, as a Cuban, I think we all owe her a debt of gratitude for so vividly bringing these heroines to life and preserving for posterity the work of the greatest composer our country ever produced: Ernesto Lecuona.
As I was growing up in Miami and began to explore her discography, I became very frustrated at the lack of information available on DOLORES PÉREZ. What was accessible to me, mainly her Montilla recordings, was a source of disappointment and exasperation, as these LP's were no frills deals with little or no liner notes, no biographical information whatsoever, shoddy art work and inferior pressings. Yet the recordings themselves were wonderful and deserved much better treatment than they were getting from Montilla.
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An Introduction by RAFAEL REMÓN
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