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"Nuestro Cuatro: Volumen 1", The Puerto Ricans and their stringed instruments. An unprecedented documentary that reveals the emotional story of the development and the history of the music and stringed instruments traditions of Puerto Rico. "Nuestro Cuatro: Volumen 2", Un Concierto Histórico/A Historical Concert. The conclusion of the video ...
González Padín was a high-end department store based in San Juan, Puerto Rico.The chain which operated in Puerto Rico at its peak had 10 stores. The chain closed in 1995, and at the time of closure it was the biggest and oldest department store on the island.
The tiple is the smallest of the three string instruments of Puerto Rico that make up the orquesta jibara (i.e., the Cuatro, the Tiple and the Bordonua).According to investigations made by Jose Reyes Zamora, the tiple in Puerto Rico dates back to the 18th century.
English: Historic model of the Puerto Rican "Cuatro," a type of guitar from Puerto Rico and Venezuela. Picture taken in the Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña Picture taken in the Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña
The word cuatro was used to represent the number of strings that the instrument initially had, but a 10 stringed, 5 course cuatro was made in 1887, as shown in a photograph taken in 1916. By 1922, cuatro music was being played on Puerto Rican radio stations, like "Los Jíbaros de la Radio" (1932) and "Industrias Nativas" (1934).
As a result, the Puerto Rican tres is shaped like a Puerto Rican cuatro, with cut-outs, unlike the Cuban variety, which has a guitar-like shape. By 1934, the Puerto Rican cuatro had reached New York and nowadays most Puerto Rican tres players specialize in their national adaptation of the instrument, a notable exception being Nelson González ...
Christian Nieves is a Puerto Rican cuatro player. Nieves is mostly known for having been a performer in the American reality television series Q'Viva!:The Chosen, where his performance became famous for bringing singer Jennifer Lopez to tears who considered the melody very emotional.
In 1966, he established in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the first independent professional school of psychology in North America, initially known as the "Instituto Psicológico de Puerto Rico" (Puerto Rican Institute of Psychology), which is modeled after the institutes of psychology in Europe where the practice and internship are done at the same ...