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Knight was a trained trumpeter, and a "powerfully expressive" musician, according to Sue Stewart of The Guardian.At age 23, he joined the Havana-based, Afro-Cuban conjunto band, La Sonora Matancera ("the sound of Matanzas", a port with a large black population), that produced, highly rhythmic dance music rooted in traditional, Africa-based styles of son and guaracha, as revived decades later ...
Pedro Knight, Omer Pardillo Cid and Celia Cruz. (Courtesy Omer Pardillo Cid) “It was a constant tour,” said the Cuban American who left his native country when he was a child.
Pedro Knight and Ezequiel "Lino" Frías left Arsenio Rodríguez's conjunto to join Sonora Matancera on the same day in 1944. [9] These two steered the collective towards a more modern sound. The one gave the brass section more heft while the other enhanced the rhythm section.
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]
Celia is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Fox Telecolombia for RCN Televisión and Telemundo [1] which is based on the life of Cuban singer Celia Cruz. [1] [4] [5] The telenovela's theme "La Negra Tiene Tumbao" received an award for Television Theme Song of the Year, at the 2016 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Awards.
When discussing music royalty, no one compares to Gladys Knight, the Empress of Soul herself. The Grammy Hall of Famer has contributed so many timeless songs to soul, R&B, and gospel history, that ...
Pedro Knight, 85, Cuban–American musician and husband of Celia Cruz. [25] Mohamed Sanni-Thomas, 79, Ghanaian Olympic athlete. [26] Devi Das Thakur, 77, Indian lawyer and politician, Governor of Assam (1990–1991). [27]
Afro-Cubans (Spanish: Afrocubano) or Black Cubans are Cubans of full or partial sub-Saharan African ancestry. The term Afro-Cuban can also refer to historical or cultural elements in Cuba associated with this community, and the combining of native African and other cultural elements found in Cuban society, such as race, religion, music, language, the arts and class culture.