Selected Media Articles
It is hard to summarize the artistic qualities of this exceptional performer, Ginamaria Hidalgo, in a few paragraphs.
The experience her singing brings to her listeners goes above and beyond either the beauty or variety of her musical style.
Feelings as unique and profound as many will ever feel come to play. Her message of love and peace, her capacity to move
people and their feelings, whether it be at an enormous public square or within the intimacy of a Café Concert, place her
in a unique category in her lyrical-popular genre.
We can quote some of the commentaries made that an give us some perspective to the public reaction to her singing,
on the part of both audience and critics.
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"Ginamaria Hidalgo, an argentine singer who made her North American debut at Carnegie Hall, is a soft
soprano voice of exceptional purity and beauty. Used naturally, it has a lovely delicate vibrato and
eveness." |
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"Ginamaria Hidalgo possesses a one-in-a-million voice, the kind that can stop you dead in your tracks". |
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"Ginamaria Hidalgo is [like] a missionary in an artform which places her in the temple of Popular Idolatry". |
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ESCAPE FROM THAT FRENETIC SEARCH FOR RITUAL - GO WALK IN THE COUNTRY - "The music of Bach and Beethoven, paintings of Botichelli, the tone poems of Debussy, the etudes of Chopin, the voice range of a Ginamaria Hidalgo, or the dance movements of a Rudolph Laban come closest to making for total sensory awareness". |
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"Who is the best female voice of our time? For me, that honor deserves to be given to an Argentine woman called Ginamaria Hidalgo. In the realm of popular song, it has been a long time since a singer, with so many vocal and artistic capabilities, has been heard, surpassing all her peers. No one else is in her category. After her, there is only a big void. When Ginamaria hits the stage at the Center of Liberal Arts (Centro de Bellas Artes), the puerto rican public will have the priviledge of listening to a truly great and extraordinary singer." |
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"[...] Ginamaria Hidalgo, whose voice is a present from God. From where does this woman's voice come from? It must be from Heaven!". |
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"For us, here in Japan, Ginamaria possesses an outstanding virtue, consisting of the rare coming together of her personal charm and her frank humility, which, together with her voice, make up the wings of her creativity". |
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"The world does not lack in beautiful voices. Nonetheless, it is clear that only a few of these voices are endowed with the magical grace, power and purity, like the voice of Ginamaria". |
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"Ginamaria, [is] the most exquisite voice of the Americas". |
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"There is only one Ginamaria... pure songbird, soaring in the Hall, and our emotions, soaring with her and her riveting voice. With it, she achieves a sort of miraculous marriage between the popular and the classic. We listen ecstatically, wondering how could our latinamerican folklore have such lyrical depth, or is it so thanks to the depth of the voice of Ginamaria. We were able to admire that repertoire which, through the medium of her voice, is exalted and made deserving of such admiration." |
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"Ginamaria, The Fairy of Song. We must speak of 'before' and 'after' Ginamaria, for she has reinvented both tango and folklore, with her genuinely original style." |
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"Ginamaria... [is] one of the most beautiful voices and talents that Latin America has given us this century. Our latest Diva counts the entire American continent as her own, to which she offers her greatest devotion and receives the warmest following, as the international star that she is". |
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"Ginamaria is what we could refer to as a singing harp. Her vocal chords are a storehouse of song. Her spirit is a serene place. Her heart, a self-contained volcano. [She] is the most beautiful voice of our Americas. Totally self-assured, she expresses herself with both supreme ease, and serene dignity." |
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"There are those who sing for the sole sake of singing. In the process, they dress, adorn adulate themselves as if they were the very gods of the entertainment world. And then, there are those who actually interpret what they sing. Meaning, they live, feel, demonstrate and successfully project their true dimension of artistic quality from the stage, without having to resort to any gimmicks. The former category is a crowded one, while in the latter, only a few individuals are to be found, such as this woman called Ginamaria Hidalgo. When we listen to her we realize that all descriptions of her voice fall short, especially when attempting to define this interpretative talent, housed in a woman whose voice seems to come from above." |
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"It may very well be that, when hearing Ginamaria sing, we may be inclined to believe we are dreaming. For, upon opening my eyes and contemplating her, I cannot believe that a woman with such a delicate and fragile build, is capable of singing with such clarity and strength. Undoubtedly, 'The Diva of America' is the best performer to have sung in the Antonio Paoli Festival Hall." |