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"Guantanamera" is one of the songs most commonly identified with Cuban singer Celia Cruz (1925–2003). It appears on at least 241 different records or compilations of hers, [19] her earliest commercial recording of it being on the Mexican label Tico Records [20] in 1968. She mentions her special memories of singing "Guantanamera" nine times in ...
The group performs many South American and Mexican tunes and songs, including classics, such as "Guantanamera", "El Cóndor Pasa", "Pajaro Campana (The Bell Bird)" and "La Bamba." Having had many changes in their line-up, the group has retained its popularity, selling many albums and appearing at many concerts throughout the world.
As someone wrote later on in this article, Guantanamera similar in structure to the Mexican song "La Bamba", which structurally speaking is a traditional guajira. La Bamba is a traditional folk song from Yucatan, closer to Cuba than to to Mexico City.
As of 2024, 349 Latin songs have entered the Hot 100 chart, 1 in the 1950s, 1 in the 1960s, 2 in the 1970s, 1 in the 1980s, 5 in the 1990s, 36 in the 2000s, 80 in the 2010s and 223 in the 2020s. A total of 22 singles managed to reach the top 10 and 4 have peaked at number 1. Only 5 Latin songs reached the top 10 between 1958 and 2016.
The 2023 Billboard Latin Music Awards kicked off Thursday and celebrated the best in Latin music over the past year.Mexican music phenom Peso Pluma led the pack going into Thursday's show with a ...
The Cuban song "Guantanamera" became popularly used as a chant in the UK as a version by The Sandpipers charted soon after the 1966 World Cup; it is commonly sung in a large variety of chants, for example in the form of "There's only one [player's name]", or "You only sing when you're winning".
Regional Mexican music began experiencing a global surge in 2023.In April of that year, Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma’s “Ella Baila Sola” became the first regional Mexican song to enter the ...
The record included their hit song “Un x100to” with Bad Bunny, and went on to reach No. 2 on the Regional Mexican Albums Billboard chart, as well as No. 4 on the Top Latin Albums chart.