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Jorge Cano is a young baroque opera singer native of Bogotá
Bogotá

Bogot? ? officially named Bogot?, D.C. , formerly called Santa Fe de Bogot? ? is the capital city of Colombia, as well as the most populous city in the country, with 6,776,009 inhabitants ....
, who initiated his studies at the National University of Colombia. He also undertook singing training under the direction of the American Soprano
Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four part chorale style harmony the soprano takes the highest part which usually encompasses the melody....
 Cheryl Boyd Waddell and the Bulgarian teacher Danaila Hristova at the music department of the Juan N. Corpas Universitarian Foundation, where he studied music with the prominent teacher Jorge Zorro.






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Jorge Cano is a young baroque opera singer native of Bogotá
Bogotá

Bogot? ? officially named Bogot?, D.C. , formerly called Santa Fe de Bogot? ? is the capital city of Colombia, as well as the most populous city in the country, with 6,776,009 inhabitants ....
, who initiated his studies at the National University of Colombia. He also undertook singing training under the direction of the American Soprano
Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four part chorale style harmony the soprano takes the highest part which usually encompasses the melody....
 Cheryl Boyd Waddell and the Bulgarian teacher Danaila Hristova at the music department of the Juan N. Corpas Universitarian Foundation, where he studied music with the prominent teacher Jorge Zorro. During the lV festival of music in Colombia
Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
 in the year 2000 he interpreted the aria "Queen of the Night
Queen of the Night

Queen of the Night may refer to:...
" of the opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
 The Magic Flute by Mozart, having the direction and guidance of Cheryl Boyd Waddell. Jorge Cano is an exceptional singer, in view of the fact that his natural condition brings into being the perfect case of an endocrinological castrato so called (natural castrati) equivalent to an old castrato
Castrato

A castrato is a man with a singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto human voice produced either by castration of the singer before puberty or one who, because of an endocrinology condition, never reaches sexual maturity....
. Due to an endocrinal factor his natural register is Soprano
Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four part chorale style harmony the soprano takes the highest part which usually encompasses the melody....
 allowing him to execute the necessary tones and making evident his innate coloratura
Coloratura

Coloratura has several meanings. The word derives from the Italian colorare or colorazione .The term normally refers to a soprano who has the vocal ability to produce notes above C#6 and whose tessitura is A4-A5 or higher ....
. His repertoire therefore has baroque arias and includes those written for the female soprano voice. Dr. Cheryl Boyd Waddell
Cheryl Boyd Waddell

Cheryl Boyd Waddell , was an American opera singer.An agile lyrical soprano, the singer established in Atlanta, Cheryl Boyd Waddell was dedicated to recitals throughout the United States....
 Director of vocal activities of Clayton College and State University Morrow, GA, referring to Jorge Cano indicates that his voice is totally different from the contemporaneous countertenors and male sopranos, considering that Jorge's larynx is similar to that of a twelve year-old youth.

In the 1980s the very first case of a natural castrato
Castrato

A castrato is a man with a singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto human voice produced either by castration of the singer before puberty or one who, because of an endocrinology condition, never reaches sexual maturity....
 was known; it was Paulo Abel do Nascimento in Brazil
Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
 whose voice was special. At the present time in the world, Radu Marian
Radu Marian

Radu Marian is a Romanians/Moldovans Sopranist. He is gifted with a pure soprano voice in the range of C4 to C6 considered at present a great talent of Baroque music....
, Jorge Cano
Jorge Cano

Jorge Cano is a young baroque opera singer native of Bogot?, who initiated his studies at the National University of Colombia. He also undertook singing training under the direction of the American Soprano Cheryl Boyd Waddell and the Bulgarian teacher Danaila Hristova at the music department of the Juan N....
 are the only singers who own this natural gift classifying them as natural castratos. A similar case is Michael Maniaci
Michael Maniaci

File:MichaelManiaci.jpgMichael Maniaci is an American male soprano noted for his unusual ability to sing into the upper soprano register without using falsetto....
 who, even if he is a natural male soprano, is not really a "castrato". (Though his vocal cords never developed into a normal lower male voice, his physical functioning is said to be completely normal.)

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