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Together with La Borinqueña and Preciosa, "En mi Viejo San Juan" is considered a national anthem by many Puerto Ricans, especially those who live far away from their Caribbean homeland, Puerto Rico. [a] In this context, the song was put in juxtaposition with Anglo songs including America from West Side Story and America by Neil Diamond. [7]
Bust in Plaza de los Compositores. Luis Demetrio, born Luis Demetrio Traconis Molina (April 21, 1931 – December 17, 2007), was a Mexican singer and composer. He is best known for composing the Spanish-language 1953 pop standard "¿Quién será?" and its English-language counterpart "Sway" together with Mexican bandleader Pablo Beltrán Ruiz and lyricist Norman Gimbel.
Manuel Juan Pablo José Ramón de la Barrera e Inzáurraga, according to his baptismal record, [1] was born in Mexico City on Thursday, June 26, 1828. He was the youngest of seven children, born to Ignacio María de la Barrera Troncoso (1794-1840), [2] of the illustrious de la Barrera family descended from the Spanish conquistador Pedro de la Barrera that settled in Hidalgo, and María Josefa ...
Estrada's composition "Mi romantico San Juan" (My romantic San Juan) won a first prize in the "Festival of the Puerto Rican Composer". In 1966, the City of San Juan honored Estrada by declaring him its adopted son. [2] Noel Estrada died in the City of San Juan in 1979. He was buried at Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery. San Juan and the ...
The park is located at the easternmost tip of San Juan's Paseo de la Covadonga. Puerto Rican singer Marc Anthony recorded Hernández's "Preciosa" and sang the song in a 2005 concert in New York City's Madison Square Garden. According to an article in the New York Times: "Mr. Anthony did his version of Preciosa. It may have been the night's most ...
Tomás de Iriarte (1750–1791) Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) Gaspar de Bracamonte (c. 1595 – 1676) Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (1744–1811) Mariano José de Larra (1809–1837) Fray Luis de León (1527 – c. 1591) Fernando S. Llobera (born 1965) Íñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de Santillana (1398–1458) Mariló López Garrido ...
Luis Herrera de la Fuente (1916–2014) Carlos Jiménez Mabarak (1916–1994) Manuel Enríquez (1926–1994) Gloria Tapia (1927–2008) Joaquín Gutiérrez Heras (1927–2012) Francisco Savín (1929–2017) Hermilio Hernández (1931–2008) Rosa Guraieb (1931–2014) Manuel de Elías (1939) Eduardo Mata (1942–1995)
Armando Manzanero Canché (7 December 1934 – 28 December 2020) was a Mexican musician, singer, composer, actor and music producer, widely considered the premier Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era and one of the most successful composers of Latin America. [1]