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Coming to international attention and acclaim for the first time in the 1999 documentary Buena Vista Social Club, Cuban vocalist Omara Portuondo has since kept up a busy schedule of touring and public appearances around the world. She began her recording career in 1948 in Cuban Radio and later with a variety of orchestras and female vocal groups. Now, Portuondo's work and popularity span not only multiple generations, but also myriad cultural, political and artistic shifts in Latin America and abroad. To see an artist whose work has traversed so many sub-genres of Latin pop music maintain a viable presence in such a fickle marketplace is nothing short of amazing. That said, Sentimento stands out because it refuses to do what so many compilations of ...