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Cuban singer Doris Lavin was hailed by Cuban trumpeter Lázaro Herrera among the timeless Soneras to sing salsa, putting her in such vaulted company as Celia Cruz and La Lupe. After creating herself as an in-demand vocalist in Cuba, Lavin relocated to Italy in 1996, which do nothing to reduce …

Rubén González was among the last of Cuba’s great Afro-Cuban piano players. Although he previously played and documented with the music group led by Enrique Jorrín, the originator from the cha-cha, for 25 % of a hundred years, he previously retired from music with the middle-’80s. Things begun to transformation …

Celina Gonzalez is among the great vocalists of Afro-Cuban music. Although small known beyond Cuba, Gonzalez is a main superstar in her homeland because the 1940s when she distributed a duo with her past due hubby, Reutillio Dominguez. In the 10 years prior to the Cuban Trend, Gonzalez and Dominguez …

Félix Valera Miranda (b. 26 Feb 1939, Todas las Tunas, Cuba; business lead vocal, electric guitar), Carmen Rosa Alarcón Ganboa (b. 30 August 1944, Todas las Tunas, Cuba; maracas, support vocals), Rádames González Brugal (b. 14 Oct 1942, Un Caney, Cuba; vocals, cuatro, tres, clave), Enrique Valera Alarcón (b. 2 …

El Super Present de los Vaskez is renowned throughout Mexico, SOUTH USA, and regions of america because of their big-band cumbia del sureste (cumbia southeast). This family members group, founded in 1968 by patron Ricardo Vasquez Fuentes and his sons, provides at onetime or another included brothers, grandchildren, nephews, etc. …

b. Luis Mañuel Mirabal Vazquez, 5 Might 1933, Melena del Sur, Havana, Cuba. His dad was musical movie director of the municipal band so that as a kid Mirabal performed various equipment before focusing on the trumpet at age 11. By his past due teenagers he was sufficiently qualified to …

The sounds of Havana, Cuba’s dance music were introduced to UNITED STATES audiences by Fernando Storch (1904 – 2001) and his band, Cuarteto Caney. A mating ground for potential Latin music superstars, including Panchito Riset, Frank “Machito” Grillo, Pablo “Tito” Rodriguez, Johnny Lopez and Alfredito Valdes, Cuarteto Caney helped to …

Vocalist La Lupe (given birth to Guadalupe Victoria Yoli Raymond) became involved with music while finishing instructor training, performing reside in different open public areas. In 1962, the musician, also called La Yiyiyi, resolved in NY, obtaining along with percussionist Mongo Santamaría and producing a record known as Mongo Introduces …

Beny Moré is the foremost singer of well-known music Cuba has ever produced. Believe Frank Sinatra or Nat Ruler Cole and you will get a concept of how he’s recognized in Cuba, and exactly how he ought to be deemed elsewhere. Within the almost half hundred years since his loss …

Havana-based group Sierra Maestra is among the foremost bands carrying out the Cuban kid style, which appreciated its elevation of popularity within the ’20s and ’30s. Though kid experienced significant revival and restored worldwide interest because of the past due-’90s Buena Vista Public Club sensation, Sierra Maestra provided the music …