Singer
Omara Portuondo
Buena Vista Social Club, and seventy five years of singing.
Omara Portuondo Peláez is a Cuban singer and dancer. A founding member of the popular vocal group Cuarteto d'Aida, Portuondo has collaborated with many important Cuban musicians during her long career, including Julio Gutiérrez, Juanito Márquez and Chucho Valdés. Although primarily known for her rendition of boleros, she has recorded in a wide range of styles from jazz to son cubano. Since 1996, she has been part of the Buena Vista Social Club project, touring extensively and recording several albums with the ensemble. She won a Latin Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Tropical Album in 2009, a Latin Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Album in 2023, a Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019, and she received three Grammy Award nominations in 2019 and a nomination in 2024.
- Born
- 1930-10-29, Havana, CubaA Wednesday
- At birth
- Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Aquarius
- Nationality
- Cuba
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1930-10-29, Havana, Cuba · time unknown, noon chart
America/Havanathe zone used then
America/HavanaThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Scorpio | 5°33′ | Direct |
| Moon | Aquarius | 9°02′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Scorpio | 0°10′ | Direct |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 7°09′ | Direct |
| Mars | Leo | 4°10′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Cancer | 20°22′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Capricorn | 7°12′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Aries | 12°30′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Virgo | 5°20′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Cancer | 20°52′ | Retrograde |
Omara Portuondo is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Omara Portuondo was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.