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Describing how Lemvo marks another generation of that trans-Atlantic cross-fertilzation, combining those related Cuban and Congolese forms of music, as well as other African-influenced musics of the old and new worlds, into Lemvo's own mix, the scholar and musician Ned Sublette, "an authority on Cuban music and its African roots and branches ...
Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez (born 29 November 1946) is a Cuban musician, and leader of the Nueva Trova movement.. He is widely considered as Cuba's best folk singer and arguably one of Latin America's greatest singer-songwriters. [1]
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List of Cuban artists (in alphabetical order by last name) includes artists of various genres, who are notable and are either born in Cuba, of Cuban descent or who produced works that are primarily about Cuba.
Recorded music was to be the couduit for Cuban music to reach the world. The most recorded artist in Cuba up to 1925 was a singer at the Alhambra, Adolfo Colombo. Records show he recorded about 350 numbers between 1906 and 1917. [119] The first theatre in Havana opened in 1776. The first Cuban-composed opera appeared in 1807.
Pedrito Martinez is a Cuban percussionist, drummer, singer, dancer, bandleader, songwriter, composer, and educator. He was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. He is a Cuban Conguero performing classic Cuban Rumbas, Afro-Cuban folkloric and religious music. He is a Santería priest. He came to the United States of America from Havana in 1998.
Although ultimately derived from African drums made from hollowed logs, the Cuban conga can be staved from ribs like a barrel, or shaped from one solid piece like a hollowed log. Some are now made from fiberglass or other synthetic materials. Congas were originally made from salvaged rum or wine barrels and locally-available animal skins ...
More than an ambassador for Cuban music, he was an ambassador for Cuba. In 1965, the night after Fidel Castro 's speech announcing Che Guevara 's departure from the government, Puebla, seized by passion, composed what would become his most celebrated work, Hasta Siempre, Comandante , a true declaration of love for and hope in Che Guevara.