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The Puerto Rican cuatro (Spanish: cuatro puertorriqueño) is the national instrument of Puerto Rico. It belongs to the lute family of string instruments , and is guitar -like in function, but with a shape closer to that of the violin.
The Venezuelan Cuatro Chord Bible: A D F# B Standard Tuning 1,728 Chords. Cabot Books. ISBN 978-1-906207-00-7. Tobe A. Richards (2007). The Puerto Rican Cuatro Chord Bible: B E A D G Standard Tuning 1,728 Chords. Cabot Books. ISBN 978-1-906207-06-9. Eric F. Milland Ramos (2004). Método Para El Aprendizaje Del Cuatro Puertorriqueño.
English: Historic model of the Puerto Rican "Cuatro," a type of guitar from Puerto Rico and Venezuela. Picture taken in the Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña Picture taken in the Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña
The most conspicuous musical sources of Puerto Rico have primarily included African, Taino Indigenous, and European influences. Puerto Rican music culture today comprises a wide and rich variety of genres, ranging from essentially native genres such as bomba , jíbaro , seis , danza , and plena to more recent hybrid genres such as salsa , Latin ...
As a musical gift, aguinaldos are mostly played by "parranderos" or "trullas" during the Christmas holidays. While parrandas , showing up at a residence late at night, with a group of Christmas carolers , is a practice that is slowly being lost in Puerto Rico, [ 1 ] a Puerto Rican aguinaldos album debuted in the top 10 Billboard Tropical Albums ...
Víctor Guillermo "Yomo" Toro (26 July 1933 – 30 June 2012) was a Puerto Rican left-handed guitarist and cuatro player. [1] Known internationally as "The King of the Cuatro," Toro recorded over 150 albums throughout a 60-year career and worked extensively with Cuban legends Arsenio Rodríguez and Alfonso "El Panameño" Joseph; salsa artists Willie Colón, Héctor Lavoe and Rubén Blades; and ...
Christian Nieves is a Puerto Rican cuatro player. Nieves is mostly known for having been a performer in the American reality television series Q'Viva!:The Chosen, where his performance became famous for bringing singer Jennifer Lopez to tears who considered the melody very emotional.
The Ateneo Puertorriqueño (Puerto Rican Athenaeum) is a cultural institution in Puerto Rico. Founded on April 30, 1876, [ 3 ] it has been called Puerto Rico's oldest cultural institution, [ 4 ] however, it is actually its third oldest overall and second culturally, after the Bar Association of Puerto Rico [ 5 ] and the Casino of Mayagüez.