Last day, I noticed a video regarding the time of God and our endurance and patience. The video goes like this: Abraham waited 25 years, Joseph waited 13 years, Moses 40 years, David waited 22 years, and Jesus waited 30 years. If God is making you wait, relax, you are in good company! Any of the above-mentioned ones do not wait more than 50 years. Can you think about waiting for long 95 years? Here is a story of a Grammy award winner who has been waiting for 95 years of a lifetime for the fulfillment of God’s plan.
The 23rd Latin Grammy Awards stage has become a rare occasion made by the presence of a 95 year ‘young’ woman. Angela Álvarez has bestowed an award in the best new artist category on Thursday.
The Cuba-born Álvarez, who is 95, tied with Mexican indie singer Silvana Estrada, 25. She had already set a record going into the ceremony as the oldest musician to ever be nominated in the category.
“I want to dedicate this award to God and my homeland Cuba, which I will never forget,” she said, adding, “I felt very, very proud to be able to tell my story, to touch people who have probably gone through the same or more than what I have gone through. There are people who give up, but I did not give up. I always fought.
“To those who have not fulfilled their dream, although life is difficult, there is always a way out, and with faith and love, you can achieve it. I promise you, it’s never too late,” she concluded, receiving a standing ovation from the audience. She did not forget to remember her grandson and producer Carlos Jose Alvarez.
She learned to play piano as a young girl, then picked up the guitar from nuns at a boarding school in Cuba. At the age of 14, she started writing songs. But she never had a professional musical career.
“Ángela Álvarez,” her debut album, consists of songs composed since her teens and that she longed to perform in public, she previously told the Associated Press. Her grandson Carlos, a musician who studied classical and Cuban percussion and works composing songs for audiovisual media in California, recorded her collection of songs for an album as a way to preserve her music and as a fun project for their family to enjoy. But when they realized what they had, they released it to the public.
“What I could say about this experience is inexplicable, because what I feel is something so wonderful and beautiful that I have no words to express it,” said the artist in the event’s press room. “I am very proud of what has happened to me in life.”
Her life and career are chronicled in the 2021 documentary “Miss Angela: Dreams Do Come True,” and the musician also played Tía Pili and sings in the 2022 Father of the Bride” remake starring Andy Garcia and Gloria Estefan.
(Edited by Sunisha V.F.)