Isabel Quintero + Gonzalo Córdova
La Osa Menor Album
is a fusion of Colombian and Latin American rhythms
featuring lyrics in Spanish from a romantic 1950s poet.
Córdova's acoustic guitar and original music
accompanies Quintero's vocals,
along with a touch of harp, accordion, flute and percussion.
Ella La Inmortal 2020
Steppenwolf's Cabaret Theater 2019
Isabel Quintero is a bilingual stage, film, television and voice actor. Gonzalo Córdova is a Latin American singer and guitarist. Both are currently based in Chicago.
Quintero and Córdova self-produced the album La Osa Menor
in 2015 and in May of 2019 they performed
La Osa Menor (a musical and bilingual storytelling journey) that premiered at Steppenwolf's Cabaret stage.
Oscar Quintero, born in Cali, Colombia in 1930,
was a poet, actor, radio announcer and entrepreneur.
The poems interpreted and sung in La Osa Menor
by his youngest daughter, are a small part of his collection written during the years 1952-1956.
Ten of the rediscovered poems appear as lyrics on La Osa Menor, set to original music from Córdova,
along with Dime Pronto Mujer, a song the poet wrote and composed for his wife.
The album is available on Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Amazon, iMusica, YouTube Music, iHeartRadio
or you can purchase the CD directly by sending us an email.
La Osa Menor is available as a 90 minute musical and storytelling bilingual performance.