Miami, December 27 (EFE).- Cuban urban music singer Osmani García will greet 2022 in New York’s Times Square by participating in the event organized every December 31 by the US Spanish-language television network Univision, according to a statement released on Tuesday.
The 41-year-old Guanabacoa-born and U.S. citizen artist will be one of the participants in “Happy 2023,” an event that Univision will offer during the traditional New Year’s celebrations in Times Square in New York and other cities.
The list of participants includes artists such as Daddy Yankee, Natti Natasha, Wisin y Yandel, Mau y Ricky, Camilo, Eva Luna, Fuerza Regida, Jay Wheeler, Chiquis, Banda Los Recoditos and Grupo Firme & Sech.
Other artists who will take part in the musical farewell of the year are Gloria Estefan, Manuel Turizo, Ozuna, Ángela Aguilar, Gabriel Soto and Sebastián Rulli.
The presenters of the evening will be Raúl De Molina, Alejandra Espinoza, Clarissa Molina and Borja Voces from New York, while Lili Estefan, Omar Chaparro and Karina Banda will join them from Los Angeles.
Other presenters will accompany them from Puerto Rico and Mexico.
“Happy 2023” will be preceded by a two-hour musical celebration “Así Sonó El 2022”.
Osmani García founded the Duo Cristal in 2001, which fused traditional Cuban music with international pop, a band with which he toured several times throughout the Caribbean island.
The Cuban’s career exploded in 2009 when he participated in international tours in Latin America in which he had the opportunity to share the stage with various artists such as Gilberto Santa Rosa, Willie Colón, Wisin y Yandel, Marc Anthony and Daddy Yankees, among the others.
The reggaeton artiste arrived in the United States in 2012. Earlier that year, the broadcast of his song “Chupi Chupi” was banned in Cuba because the authorities considered it degenerate and vulgar.
