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Music of Cuba
The music of Cuba, including its instruments, performance, and dance, comprises a large set of unique traditions influenced mostly by west African and European (especially Spanish) music.[1] Due to the syncretic nature of most of its genres, Cuban music is often considered one of the richest and most influential regional music in the world. For instance, the son cubano merges an adapted Spanish guitar (tres), melody, harmony, and lyrical traditions with Afro-Cuban percussion and rhythms. Almost nothing remains of the original native traditions, since the native population was exterminated in the 16th century.[2]
Since the 19th century, Cuban music has been hugely popular and influential throughout the world. It has been perhaps the most popular form of regional music since the introduction of recording technology. Cuban music has contributed to the development of a wide variety of genres and musical styles around the globe, most notably in Lat
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Guillermo Portabales was a unique performer of the Cuban guajira rhythm which is halfway between punto and son. He used pentameters, alternating in 3/4 and 6/8 time and the theme is generally bucolic, singing of the sorrows and joys of the guajira or peasant.
José Guillermo Quesada del Castillo was born on 6th April 1911 in Rodas, a province of Las Villas, Cuba, where he came from a modest family. His father, a gold jeweller by trade, made a living as a basket weaver and furniture maker, but he died when José Guillermo was only six years old. Shortly afterwards his mother married Andrés Portabales, who became the real father of the family.
At the age of eleven, Guillermo Portabales began work as a printer’s apprentice at El Comercio in his home town of Cienfuegos, where he worked for seven years. In 1928, he gave his debut performance singing on the Cienfuegos radio station, CMHI. From this moment on, he was to divide his time between his work as a
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Julio Brito
Cuban musician
Julio Brito[1][2] was a Cuban musician, composer, orchestra dirigent and singer. He achieved great popularity both in his native Cuba and internationally, thanks to compositions such as the guajira "El amor de mi bohío" or the world famous bolero "Mira que eres linda", interpreted bygd numerous artists around the world, even today. His way of describing the Cuban landscapes and his very careful lyrics earned him the nickname of "The melodisk painter of Cuba".[3][4]
Biography
[edit]Julio Brito (Julio Valdés-Brito Ibáñez)[5] was born in Havana (Cuba) on January 21, 1908. From his earliest childhood he showed great aptitude for music.
He studied music with Pedro Sanjuán[6] (1887-1976), a famous Spanish musician and teacher, who gave him an excellent musical education.
In 1924, at the age of 16, he joined Don Azpiazu's orchestra as a saxophonist, a very successful orchestra on the island