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Diana Fuentes was born on February 23, 1985 in Havana, Cuba. At the age of 3, Diana started her first steps in art, receiving ballet classes with “Pro-Danza” Company of the National Ballet of Cuba. In 1992 she entered to the music school “Alejandro Garcia Caturla”, here starts her musical education in the Cathedras of Piano, Choral Singing & Choral Conduction and Theories of Music. She continued her professional education at the National Art School of Cuba, where she received the Highest Grades. Diana has taken part in several piano contests and was awarded many times. She was chosen to be a soloist in the children’s chorus “Diminuto” and participated in many editions of the International Chorus Festival in Santiago de Cuba. Diana and this chorus also participated in the welcoming ceremonies to Pope Joan Paul II on the occasion of his visit to Cuba in 1998. As a soloist in “Diminuto” chorus she made some recordings together with well-known Cuban musicians as Harold Gramatges, Roberto Valera and the “Moncada” band. In 1998 she conducted the Youth Chorus and Symphonic Orchestra on the occasion of the closing concert of the First Congress of Culture and Development at the National Theater of Cuba.

Diana started her professional career in 2001, as a singer of the prestigious “Síntesis” Cuban Band and has collaborated with X Alfonso, one of the most successful FUSION music singer and composer of today and participated on all the National and International tours with him. In December 2006, she started working with the famous Cuban singer Carlos Varela and since then, they have worked jointly in all his concerts and recordings. In the magazine “The H”, Humberto Manduley has stated about Diana Fuentes: “…

Diana’s training was a rigorously academic and her name is becoming more and more well known to followers of the new musical currents that happen here. When she sings, it is melody in a state of grace manipulating nuances including those sometimes anonymous ones of the coral singers. A great little perfect pearl of song shining among the paraphernalia of scenery, black rhythms of ancestral drums and electric whiplash of the heavy rock with all naked beauty of her instrument: THE VOICE. Diana sings as she is: beautiful……

For all these reasons and her hard work early in her career, we find her name linked with the production of many CDs of outstanding Cuban musicians and Cuban bands. Either as a soloist or as part of a chorus, she has worked in the recordings of the following music personalities: - Andrés Alén: “Christmas Songs” (EGREM, 2000) - “La Isla de la Música (The Island of the Music)”, “Diminuto” Chorus (Vol. 12, 1998) - Homage to Harold Gramatges. - Sintesis: . CD “Habana a Flor de piel” (2002), nominated to Latin Grammy 2002. . “Ancestors III” (2003) -	X Alfonso: . CD “Delirium” . CD “X-Moré” (2002), nominated to Latin Grammy . CD “Civilization” (2004) . CD “Revoluxion” (2007) -	 Alberto Pujol: CD “Concierto de la Buena Vida” (Concert of Good Life) -	Liuba María Hevia: CD “Iluminada” -	Amaury Pérez: CD “Algo en Común” (Something in common) -	Roberto Carcasés: CD “Mambo” (2000) -	Aldo López Gavilán: CD “Talking to the Universe” (2005) -	Group of artists: CD “Homage to Noel Nicola” (2006) -	Group of artists: CD “Cuba canta a Serrat” (Cuba sings to Serrat) -	Group of artists: CD “Breathing Havana” which had a great success in Japan. -	Group of Artists: CD “Women are Beautiful” (2008), produced by Roberto Carcasés with the participation of outstanding and legendary Cuban singers as Omara Portuondo( Latin Grammy winner in 2009) and Beatriz Márquez, awarded the prize of the critic in Japan. -	Group of artists: CD “Cubans” (EGREM, 2007), produced by José Luis Barba, together with Pablo Milanés, Silvio Rodríguez, among other artists. -	“Trapiche” of Alejandro Vargas -	Ernesto Vega: CD “Come to the world” Diana has also taken part in the recordings of discography productions of Javier Grass, Boni & Kelly, Free Hole Negro, Aceituna sin hueso, El Clan, Mate, Roklan, Kumar, Oggere, David Torrens, William Vivanco, Telmarys, among others. She has also worked for some Cuban films, as a singer: on the sound track of the cuban film “Miel para Ochún” directed by Humberto Solás, and the documentary “Life of Alberto Korda”, directed by Alejandro Strauss from Mexico. Diana is a member of the SGAE and ACDAM. Diana participated in “Adolfo Guzman- 2007” Contest, the most important musical event of its kind in Cuba and she was awarded with the GRAND PRIZE for her song “Decirte Cosas de Amor” (Telling You Words of Love). Her first video clip, “Música de Fondo” (Background Music) written by her, got eight nominations and received two prizes as Novel Artist and the Best Female Video, on the occasion of the 7th edition of Lucas Prizes. In 2008 she made her first discography project as a soloist, “Amargo pero Dulce” (EGREM), produced by Descemer Bueno. She has been in different tours in countries like Italy, Spain, Canada, Mexico Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Germany, Panama, Costa Rica, France, The Netherlands, the Dominican Republic, among others, with a great success in all of them. She was chosen as the most important artist of the Beginning of Summer- 2008 in Baleares Islands (“Havana Culture” Project). She also participated in the FARFALLANDIA Festival, in the Milan, Italy. In 2009 she was invited to “Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado” Jazz Festival, in Sonora, Mexico. She has 4 Video Clips more, Amargo pero Dulce, directed by X Alfonso, Luna de vino tinto, by Lester Hamlet, Lo que no Nace no crece, featuring Baby Lores, and Directed by WIcho, and Y ahora, by Grettel Cuevas. She has participated in the new discography production of the Japanese maestro Antonio Koga, Nat’s Melody. In “Cuerda Viva”prizes, she was awarded for “Best Cuban Alternative Music” prize. She has finished a Movie in Ecuador, Criaturas Abandonadas (www.criaturasfilms.com), as a protagonist roll, this Movie will be ready for 2010. She has participated in the Paz sin Fronteras Concert, celebrated in Havana City on September 20, with musicians like: Juanes, Olga Tañon, Miguel Bose, Carlos Varela, Silvio Rodriguez, and many others. Diana Fuentes is the new revelation of the music on the Island, and she is considered “La Ninfeta” in the site CUBASI. Other personalities call her ‘The Angel that sings.’