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Guadalupe Urbina is a Costa Rican
singer-song writer, who in a short time has gained an important place in Costa
Rica's musical environment, and has acquired recognition of the quality of her
musical work throughout Latin America and Europe. 
Her songs consist of music and poetry. She compiles, investigates and interprets
melodies and anonymous poems. Guadalupe creates new songs finding her
inspiration in the roots of her hometown and her history. She also puts music to
the words and poems of great American authors.
Her repertoire is extremely wide and varied: original
songs, anonymous songs and texts from the province of Guanacaste in the north of
Costa Rica. In addition she has created sound tracks for theatre, children's
performances and documentary videos.
Guadalupe's artistic career has enriched over the
years. Today she is well known for her folk traditional research as well as a
singer-song writer. But her songs and poetic prose are a philosophy of life,
inherited from her mother and her native area, Sardinal de Carrillo, in
Guanacaste. The quality of her words and the depth of her thoughts have opened
doors to important stages in Europe and Latin America. She is able to recognize
herself in her own history as a Costa Rican and Latin American citizen.
"Strength of woman, strength of the earth, passion
made song, word, drama or story on the stage. This voluntary exile is always
searching for a new way to express and create her own dream." (A.
Hernandez, journalist of the news agency EFE, on virtue of the Gaviota de
Ibero-Am~rica Prize, which was given to Guadalupe at the Circle of Fine Arts at
Mad-id, Spain, in March 1994).
In November 1995, due to her originality and
sensitivity, she received the "America Prize", given at Senegal,
Africa, with the attendance of other big musicians like Jossum N'Dor.
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