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Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez (born 29 November 1946) is a Cuban musician, and leader of the Nueva Trova movement.. He is widely considered as Cuba's best folk singer and arguably one of Latin America's greatest singer-songwriters. [1]
Nueva Trova ([ˈnweβa ˈtɾoβa], "new trova") is a movement in Cuban music that emerged around 1967-1968 after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, and the consequent political and social changes.
The songs Santiago de Chile and the title track Días y Flores were omitted and were replaced by Madre and Te Doy una Canción. With the end of the dictatorship, the two songs were added again, the new editions in Spain have thirteen songs. Similarly, the album was also censored in Chile, due to the regime of Augusto Pinochet. [3]
Trova is a style of Cuban popular music originating in the 19th century. Trova was created by itinerant musicians known as trovadores who travelled around Cuba's Oriente province, especially Santiago de Cuba, and earned their living by singing and playing the guitar. [1]
Al Final de Este Viaje is the second album by the Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez, released in 1978. In 2024, it was considered the fourth best album on the “ Los 600 de Latinoamérica ” list compiled by a collective of music journalists, highlighting the top 600 Latin American albums from 1920-2022.
"La Maza" was written by Cuban composer and musician Silvio Rodriguez in 1979, and first released by him in 1982 as a part of his fifth studio album Unicornio. [2] [3] Mercedes Sosa performed the song together with Shakira in May 2008, [4] before releasing a studio recording of the duet on her thirty-second studio album Cantora 1 on 27 March 2009, [5] and on the double album Cantora, un Viaje ...
"Fusil contra fusil" (Spanish for "Rifle Against Rifle") is a song written and recorded by Silvio Rodríguez in 1968 as a tribute to Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who had died in 1967. It was first released by Casa de las Américas on the 1971 album Hasta la victoria siempre, Che q
In 1969, he became part of the Grupo de Experimentación Sonora, a seminal group of young musicians, many of whom became founding members of the nueva trova, which started as a movement with a concert given by Pablo, Silvio Rodriguez, and Noel Nicola on 18 February 1968. Until the late 1980s, nueva trova was the unofficial musical style of the ...