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CONJUNTO ELIANA CUEVAS
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ELIANA CUEVAS & JORGE GLEM
ELIANA CUEVAS & JORGE GLEM
Eliana Cuevas & Jorge Glem Release Mi Pequeña — An Intimate Homage to Venezuela’s Soul
Toronto, Canada — Multi–Latin Grammy winner Jorge Glem, widely regarded as the world’s greatest cuatro player, joins forces with CFMA- winning Venezuelan Canadian vocalist Eliana Cuevas, to release Mi Pequeña (Lulaworld Records) on November 7, an album of tender remembrance, virtuosity, and national pride.
This is not just another recording—it is a love letter to Venezuela, a cultural dispatch from memory and exile, and an homage to a fallen comrade, the late and luminous Aquiles Báez.
The title track, Mi Pequeña, was composed by Báez, inspired by his young daughter Andrea, and stands here as both an invocation and a benediction. Cuevas and Glem don’t just interpret the song—they lift it into eternity, naming the entire record after it as an act of reverence.
At its core, Mi Pequeña is an album of bare-bones honesty: voice and cuatro. Stripped of excess, what remains is the marrow of Venezuelan songcraft—the warm timbre of Cuevas’ voice intertwining with Glem’s mercurial cuatro. In this intimate format, every nuance counts; every breath and every pluck is a confession. “When there are only two of us,” Cuevas says, “there’s nowhere to hide. It is vulnerable, it is raw, and it is breathtaking.”
Glem, known internationally through his Grammy-winning work with C4 Trío, reminds us why the cuatro is Venezuela’s beating heart. His instrument doesn’t just accompany; it converses, cajoles, challenges, and consoles. Together, Cuevas and Glem resurrect the kitchen-table sessions of Venezuelan families, where song was as common as bread, and memory was carried on melody.
This is Cuevas’ second intimate duo project. Her 2021 collaboration with Aquiles Báez, El Curruchá, now glows as a bittersweet precursor to Mi Pequeña. With Báez’s untimely death in 2022, the new record became both a tribute and a torchbearer.
Cuevas’ daughters have become willing torchbearers too. “They support me,” she says with a smile. “They even like it!” But what they are really supporting is a cultural mission—to ensure the cuatro is heard, understood, and never mistaken for a ukulele again.
Mi Pequeña will be released worldwide on Lulaworld Records, marking another milestone in Cuevas’ acclaimed career as a bridge-builder between Latin American tradition and Canadian creativity.
For audiences, this album offers not just music but a journey: a reminder that Venezuela, even in exile, sings on with clarity, humour, tenderness, and fire.