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Tim Jeffery from the Record Mirror Dance Update described the song as "a nice summery Latin number". [19] At the 6th Annual Lo Nuestro Awards in 1994, "Mi Tierra" won Tropical Song of the Year. [20] In the same year, it was the Tropical/Salsa Song of the Year at the inaugural Billboard Latin Music Awards. [21]
The largest part of the magnetic tape collection corresponds to recordings made from 78’ discs that are not contained in the collection or were never recorded in any other format, not only from Cuban music [5] but also from other Latin American countries. Today, the FIU libraries are trying to fund a project that allows the digitization of ...
Under cornetist Pablo Valenzuela, the band became one of the earliest to record Cuban music, in 1906 with Edison cylinders (about 40), 1909 with Columbia Records (23) and with Victor (56). [7] [8] The last recordings were in 1919; there were about 120 numbers in all, most of which were danzones. The band dispersed after his death.
Tumbadoras (conga drums), one of the basic instruments of salsa music. Salsa music is a style of Caribbean music, combining elements of Cuban, Puerto Rican, and American influences. Because most of the basic musical components predate the labeling of salsa, there have been many controversies regarding its origin.
In the 1950s, Miami became alive with Cuban music and salsa dancing. It all started when waves of Cuban immigrants made Miami their new home after the Cuban Revolution. They brought their incredible musical traditions, like son, rumba, and cha-cha-cha, sparking a fiery dance culture we now call Miami Cuban style salsa. [1]
Another session entitled Cuban Jam Session with Fajardo took place under the direction of flautist José Fajardo in 1957, but only four tracks could be recorded. The album was finished in Miami in 1964. [8] It was the first descarga album in the charanga format and it features jazz-inspired mambos, chachachás, guajiras and montunos. [5] [8]
[8] p181 Aside from rural music and Afro-Cuban folk music, the most popular kind of urban Creole dance music in the 19th century was the contradanza, which commenced as a local form of the English country dance and the derivative French contredanse and Spanish contradanza. While many contradanzas were written for dance, from the mid-century ...
Bamboleo is a Havana-based Cuban salsa and timba band formed in 1995, and emblematic of the "timba brava" generation of Cuban bands in the 90s. [1] Their albums also include boleros and reggaeton . The group was founded by Lázaro Valdés, a keyboard player, [ 2 ] and initially fronted by two female singers, with a distinctive female "voice ...