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Mi Pequeña (2025)
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), an album of tender remembrance, virtuosity, and national pride.
The collection of duo performances form 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.
Track Listing
- Mi Pequeña (Aquiles Báez)
- La Partida (Simón Díaz/Carlos Bonet)
- Venme a Buscar (Henry Martínez)
- El Becerrito (Simón Díaz)
- Cambur Pintón (Jorge Glem)
- El Diablo Suelto (Heraclio Fernández & Enrique Hidalgo)
- Un Heladero con Clase (Luis Laguna)
- El Cuatro Venezolano (Eliana Cuevas)
- Motivos (Italo Pizzolante)
Personnel
- Vocals – Eliana Cuevas
- Piano – Eliana Cuevas, Jeremy Ledbetter (track 7)
- Cuatro – Jorge Glem
Production Team
- Produced by Jeremy Ledbetter
- Executive Producer Eliana Cuevas
- Recorded by Jeremy Ledbetter at GMP Studios
- Mixed by John Bailey at Drive Shed Recording Studios
- Mastered by Harry Hess
- Photography by Pasky Photography
- Album Design by Kurt Firla
