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La Sonora Matancera is a Cuban band that played Latin American urban popular dance music. Founded in 1924 and led for more than five decades by guitarist, vocalist, composer, and producer Rogelio Martínez, musicologists consider it an icon of this type of music.
Silva had become an international singing star and was known as "The Queen of the Guaracha" by her fans in Latin America. From 1949 to 1950, she was the lead singer in the popular Cuban ensemble, La Sonora Matancera, at the same time continuing to compose. She received a good deal of recognition for her groups' performances throughout Latin ...
El bigote que canta wanted to be paid more than his fellow band members even though La Sonora was a cooperative. His legacy with the band is unmatched as no vocalist recorded more songs with La Sonora Matancera than Bienvenido Granda. He put on vinyl over 200 songs with this group. [citation needed]
Napoleón Nelson Pinedo Fedullo (10 February 1928 – 27 October 2016) was a singer from Barranquilla, Colombia.In 1954, Pinedo began a five-year career with the Sonora Matancera, a Cuban ensemble, which at the time had widespread fame in Latin America.
The plot of the film was based on a musical poem by the Brito brothers, and featured the participation of the Sonora Matancera. At minute 00:03:57 of the film, Julio Brito, co-author of the music, can be seen singing. The Sonora Matancera makes its appearance at minute 00:06:20, performing the song "Guaguancó". Towards the end of the film ...
Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros (4 April 1928 – 6 January 2016) was a Cuban trumpeter.He played with artists such as Arsenio Rodríguez, Generoso Jiménez, Chico O'Farrill, Orchestra Harlow, Eddie Palmieri, Cachao and Sonora Matancera.
Knight was a trained trumpeter, and a "powerfully expressive" musician, according to Sue Stewart of The Guardian.At age 23, he joined the Havana-based, Afro-Cuban conjunto band, La Sonora Matancera ("the sound of Matanzas", a port with a large black population), that produced, highly rhythmic dance music rooted in traditional, Africa-based styles of son and guaracha, as revived decades later ...
On August 16th of that same year, he was requested by Sonora Matancera and recorded the composition Ignoro tu existencia by Rafael Pablo de la Motta and Although it costs me life by the inspiration of the Dominican Luis Kalaff. Both songs, to the rhythm of a bolero, were recorded on the same 78 r disc. p. m. [citation needed]