Cuban music bands in the fifties (II Part)
The Cuban fifties was signed by a high number of radio hits, contagious rhythms, and marvelous bands.
Irakere: The Real Name of a Legend
Irakere, Grammy awarded band with the great Cuban musician Chucho Valdes as director was a milestone in Latin Jazz
The Kings of the Radio in the 1950 Decade (I part)
The fifties in Cuba was an splendid time for romantic music, along with relevant voices such as Celia Cruz, Benny Moré and Olga Guillot. Here you are some of this hits.
Esther Borja, a charming lady
Esther Borja was a very succesful Cuban singer, with long life and prominent career
The Country, Sex and the Sucu Suco
Sucu suco is one of the most regional and indigenous expressions of the Cuban popular music, with lyrics that involve patriotic themes or overlapped sexual verses.
Pedro Calvo: beyond the level
Pedro Calvo, one of the most popular singers in Cuba, former member of Van Van group smiles as life goes by and remains loyal to his musical roots
Leonora Rega’s Second Death
“You dig a grave / and today coming back / you’ll know I’m dead ‘cause of your fake / and already wrecked down / lonely and beaten you’ll cry”, (verse of one of the most famous songs performed by Leonora Rega). Just a bundle of nerves, a very personal style but related to La Lupe…
Gina León, the leading voice at Capri nights
Gina León is, if there’s no another opposite information, the first Cuban singer with a record recorded according to her performances in one of the most exciting cabarets in Havana, under the title: Gina sings in The Capri.
Meme Solís a life between harmonies
Meme Solís, the famous Cuban musician choose the exile as alternative
How to compose hit songs
The outstanding Cuban composer José (Pepe) Valladares reveals for Tradicionales de los 50, some musical creation clefs.
