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"Daniel Santos y Bienvenido Granda con la Sonora Matancera". Vol. 2. Recorded live in Havana, Cuba in 1949, 1950, and 1953. CD Sonora. "La Guarachera de Cuba. Celia Cruz con la Sonora Matancera". Recorded at Estudios CMQ, 1950–1953. Tumbao Cuban Classics, TCD-091. "Celia Cruz con La [sic] Sonora Matancera". Vol. 5. Live recordings on Radio ...
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]
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 ...
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.
Enrique Raúl Planas Fernández (September 18, 1920 – February 28, 2001) was a popular Cuban singer and songwriter. He performed and recorded with many bands and musicians, including Carlos Barbería y su Orquesta Kubavana, Sonora Matancera, Celia Cruz, Conjunto Rumbavana, Conjunto Chappottín, Charanga Rubalcaba, Rubén González, and the Afro-Cuban All Stars.
Son Con Guaguancó is a studio album recorded by Celia Cruz and released on the Tico Records label in 1966 (SLP-1143). It was Cruz's first major release as a solo artist in the United States without the Sonora Matancera. [3] The album has been recognized as one of the great works of Latin music.
Silva had become an international singing star and was known as "The Queen of the Guaracha" by her fans in Latin America. From 1949 to 1950, she was the lead singer in the popular Cuban ensemble, La Sonora Matancera, at the same time continuing to compose. She received a good deal of recognition for her groups' performances throughout Latin ...
Celia Cruz, who had had a successful career in Cuba with Sonora Matancera, was able to transition into the salsa movement, eventually becoming known as the Queen of Salsa. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] [ 50 ] Larry Harlow stretched out from the typical salsa record formula with his opera Hommy (1973), inspired by The Who 's Tommy album , and also released his ...