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La Sonora Dinamita is a Colombian [1] and Mexican [2] [3] [4] musical group that plays cumbia, a Tropical music genre from Colombia but popular throughout Latin America. As one of the first cumbia groups to reach international success, it is credited with helping to popularize the genre throughout Latin America and the world.
Performing at the Feria de de las Culturas Amigas in 2013. Sonora Santanera is an orchestra playing tropical music from Mexico with over 60 years of history. Modeled after an earlier Cuban band called Sonora Matancera, the Sonora Santanera was founded in 1955 by Carlos Colorado in the state of Tabasco, and went on to find enormous success during the 1960s.
"El gran varón", (English: The Great Man) also known as Simón, el gran varón, or Simón is a salsa song written in 1986 by Omar Alfanno and sung by Willie Colón.The song narrates the story of Simón, a queer person who is rejected by his father for his lifestyle and dies presumably of AIDS, alone in a hospital in New York.
Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso was born on 21 October 1925, at 47 Serrano Street in the Santos Suárez neighborhood of Havana, Cuba. [10] [3] [11] Her father, Simón Cruz, was a railway stoker, and her mother, Catalina Alfonso Ramos, a housewife of Haitian descent who took care of an extended family. [3]
The song debuted on the Billboard Top Latin Songs chart (formerly Hot Latin Tracks) at number 33 on April 7, 1990 and rose to the top ten the following week, climbing 28 spots. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It reached the top position of the chart on May 5, 1990, replacing French band Gipsy Kings ' " Volaré " and being succeeded by " El Cariño Es Como Una Flor ...
"Gata Sin Luna" ("Moonless Cat") is a song written by Luis Ángel Márquez and performed by Puerto Rican singer Ednita Nazario on her album Pasiones (1994). [1] It became her second number-one song on the Billboard Latin Pop Airplay chart in 1995. The song earned Nazario an ACE for "Most Outstanding Song by a Female Artist". [2]
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The Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, [1] to recording artists for releasing albums in the tropical latin music genres.