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Myrta Blanca Silva Oliveros (September 11, 1927 – December 2, 1987) better known as Myrta Silva, was a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter and television producer who was known affectionately as "La Gorda de Oro". [1] [2] [3] She rose to fame in 1949 as the lead vocalist for the Cuban ensemble Sonora Matancera. [4]
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.
Bienvenido Granda. Bienvenido Granda, born Rosendo Bienvenido Granda Aguilera (Havana, August 30, 1915 - Mexico City, July 9, 1983), was a Cuban vocalist and musician, singing boleros, son montunos, guarachas and other Cuban rhythms.
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. He incorporated various Colombian songs (porros, cumbias, and mapalés) into the band's repertoire— many of which were adapted to Cuban rhythms such as the Bolero. [citation needed]
"Dos gardenias" is a bolero written in 1945 by Cuban composer and pianist Isolina Carrillo. [2] Widely considered a standard of the Latin music repertoire, the song became a hit for Daniel Santos in 1948, due to his recording with La Sonora Matancera with an arrangement by Pérez Prado.
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]
Generally, there is an explicit difference between styles that incorporate elements of the son partially or totally, as evidenced by the distinction between bolero soneado and bolero-son. [6] [7] The term sonora refers to conjuntos with smoother trumpet sections such as Sonora Matancera and Sonora Ponceña. [8]
They offered him the opportunity to record with Sonora Matancera, ... Charanga de la 4 (1981), Bobby Carcassés (1985 ... Benny More Canta Boleros (Estudios ...