Kube, Luciana

Luciana Kube

Luciana Kube is a Venezuelan singer who, for two decades, has shared her country’s musical tradition with the world. She began her musical studies in her hometown, Caracas, at the age of six, at the Prudencio Esaa school. She continued her training at the Simón Bolívar Conservatoryand then at the Conservatorio Superior del Liceu, in Barcelona, ​​Spain, where she moved in 1998. She has lived in the United States since July 2016, where, in addition to completing her PhD in Hispanic Literature at FIU, she has participated in various concerts at the Miami Dade County Auditorium, at FIU’s WPAC, Theater Roca and Paseo de las Artes, as well as being invited by music group El Fuego to sing at the Tallahassee “Loco for Love” Festival under the baton of Venezuelan guitarist and singer Salomé Sandoval in March 2022. She is also part of the Colonial Consort, that since 2019 had been performing regularly in Miami a repertoire of colonial music from de Americas. Her first EP album was released in January 2022, with songs from contemporary Venezuelan composers.

She has been invited to sing on the WDNA radio station, accompanied by instrumentalists like Saúl Vera, Héctor Molina, Laura Lambuley, Henry Linarez, Nicolás Real or the recently deceased Aquiles Báez. She participated in a heartfelt posthumous tribute to this composer in October 2022. Luciana obtained her PhD in Spanish Literature at Florida International University in May 2023, Ph.D. in Spanish from the Modern Languages Department at Florida International University. Her dissertation research focused on the Colonial Villancico and the syncretic genres of the Eighteenth Century through musical and literary approaches. Luciana is currently recording her second album, a tribute to the Venezuelan composer Adolfo de Pool, and is

working in the CIBER research and education center at FIU.