The Cuban’s life in Juan Formell’s music
Juan Formell´s songs are like a pleasant testimony about how Cuba was during some decades
American artists in Cuba. The six most influential visits from the centuries XX and XXI
Many American artists visited Cuba in XIX and XX centuries, mainly interested in knowing the culture and music.
Mambo was on the air…
A musical revolution started to take part at the end of the 30s and got its biggest splendor during the 50s; it was Mambo
Five years without Manuel Galbán, the Zafiros star
They are remembered like The Cuban Platters. Like the indisputable hosts of the clubs, nightclubs, bars and everywhere that smells party in the upheaval Havana from the 60´s.
The best Hispano-American “Talent Show” was Cuban: The supreme court of art
The development of the radio as a mean of communication had its beginning in North America and Europe during the two first decades of the XX century. The first radio stations in The USA broadcasted mainly news without the presence of any publicity, although in 1922 the radial transmissions sponsored by commercial brands began to appear, mainly dedicated to sports, musicals, interviews and…talent scout programs, also known as “talent shows”.
The music we speak and the sounds we see… time for surrealism
Several scientific studies confirm that there are more believed similarities between music and the human speech and our pupils not only react before light.
Pancho Amat is called the tres in Cuba
With his Cuban hat, his “guarachera” smile and the three stringed instrument which has given him an international well-known name, the tresero Pancho Amat went to the Eastern Cuban province of Ciego de Avila in these days of April to start the part and make the followers move their feet of the Traditional and Fusion Piña Colada Festival as a guest of honor though, and it’s always said, he’s without pompous titles that embellish him the “Rápido of Güira de Melena”. Who dares to take away from him that alias won in every of his presentations with his agile, melodic and comfortable cadence that start to the tres, the one that should simply call him, Pancho Amat in Cuba.
The Cuban music in four anecdotes and several surprises
Stories and anecdotes of musicians and rhythms of Cuban music; things you didn´t know about Benny, Olga Guillot and a famous Cha cha cha
The end of the Century 20th sounded in Cuba: The Buena Vista Social Club and its incredible journey through the world
After twenty years of constant successes, The Buena Vista Social Club (BVSC), the all-stars of the most Cuban music of all times, says good bye to the stages and its followers.
