Maribel Cortina
Maribel Cortina | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Maribel de Los Ángeles Cortina Fonseca[1] |
| Born | Ariguaní, Colombia |
| Genres | vallenato |
| Years active | 1980s–present |
Maribel de Los Ángeles Cortina Fonseca is a Colombian accordionist. She was a member of Patricia Teherán's Diosas del Vallenato and played accordion on the hit "Tarde lo Conocí".[2]
Biography
Cortina was born in Ariguaní in Magdalena, Colombia, and grew up in Plato.[3] Her father played and fixed accordions, and she would sometimes play the ones he was repairing.[4] Cortina began to play accordion at parties at the age of 10, with musicians like Eliseo Reyes and Modesto Barrios.[5] In 1980 Cortina's godfather took her to perform at a vallenato festival in Santa Marta. Her father first saw her play at a vallenato festival in Plato; he had entered her brother, but withdrew him when he saw Maribel perform.[5]
In 1993 Cortina formed Las Diosas del Vallenato with Patricia Teherán. The group released an album Con Aroma De Mujer in 1994, and were planning a US tour when Teherán died in January 1995.[4] Following Teherán's death, Cortina recorded the albums Por Siempre y Para Siempre and Contra Viento y Marea with Baudilia Gutiérrez and Rosalba Chico. Las Diosas split in 1997 and since then Cortina has played with singers including Julio Gutiérrez, Rocío Rojas, Luchi Ortega, and Miriam Negrette.[4][6]
Cortina participated in the amateur accordionist competition of the Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata in 1985, 1986, and 1988, coming second each time.[4] From 1989 she competed several times in the professional accordionist competition, and as of 2014 was the only woman to have done so.[7] Cortina has publicly stated that she has not felt discriminated against at the festival because of her gender.[7] In 2019 the festival split the accordion competition into separate men's and women's competitions, and Cortina lost in the final to Loraine Lara.[8][9]
References
- ^ "Tutela en contra de Fundación Festival Vallenato y Ministerio de Cultura", RCN Radio (in Spanish), 29 April 2014, retrieved 30 April 2025
- ^ Julio Oñate Martínez (April 2003). "Voces femeninas en el vallenato: Maribel Cortina". El abc del Vallenato (in Spanish). Bogotá: Taurus. p. 131. ISBN 958-704-071-6.
- ^ Liliana Martínez Polo (11 October 2020), "Diez heroínas de la música vallenata" [Ten heroines of vallenato music], El Tiempo (in Spanish), retrieved 30 April 2025
- ^ a b c d Dilia Contreras (23 June 2016), ""He soñado con ser la reina del Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata": Maribel Cortina" ["I have dreamt of being the queen of the Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata": Maribel Cortina], El Espectador (in Spanish), retrieved 30 April 2025
- ^ a b Leonardo Herrera D. (17 September 2006), "Maribel Cortina, la mujer que quiere ser reina del acordeón" [Maribel Cortina, the woman who wants to be accordion queen], El Tiempo (in Spanish), archived from the original on 10 August 2018, retrieved 30 April 2025
- ^ Erika Puerta Cervantes (19 April 2017), "Maribel Cortina y Miriam Negrette, la cuota femenina del vallenato", El Universal (in Spanish), retrieved 30 April 2025
- ^ a b "No me he sentido discriminada: Maribel Cortina, acordeonista" [I have not felt discriminated against: accordionist Maribel Cortina], El Heraldo (in Spanish), 30 April 2014, retrieved 30 April 2025
- ^ Liliana Martínez Polo (29 April 2019), "Esta noche habrá rey y reina del Festival Vallenato" [Tonight there will be king and queen of the Vallenato Festival], El Tiempo (in Spanish), retrieved 30 April 2025
- ^ Liliana Martínez Polo (25 November 2019), "Loraine Lara: una acordeonera en dos reinados vallenatos simultáneos" [Loraine Lara: an accordionist of two simultaneous vallenato reigns], El Tiempo (in Spanish), retrieved 30 April 2025
External links
- Maribel Cortina discography at Discogs