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Andrés Jiménez Hernández, popularly known as "El Jíbaro" (born July 3, 1947 in Orocovis, Puerto Rico), is a composer and singer of traditional Puerto Rican folk music (jíbaro music) and is that music genre's best known contemporary trovador (troubadour, i.e., singer) linked to the Neofolkloric movement of the Nueva Canción (New Song).
If the term "folk music" is taken to mean music genres that have flourished without elite support [clarification needed], and have evolved independently of the commercial mass media, the realm of Puerto Rican folk music would comprise the primarily Hispanic-derived jíbaro music, the Afro-Puerto Rican bomba, and the essentially "creole" plena.
The Puerto Rican cuatro, a staple of jibaro music Jíbaro culture is also characterized by its own typical Puerto Rican folk music, commonly termed " jíbaro music ". [ 12 ] " Jíbaro music and dance was the principal musical expression of the humble and hardworking mountain people who worked the coffee plantations and inland farms of Puerto Rico."
Odilio González (born 5 March 1937), known by his stage name El Jibarito de Lares, is a Puerto Rican singer, guitarist and music composer who has been singing and composing for more than 65 years. He has mostly played traditional Puerto Rican folkloric music, songs dedicated to Puerto Rico's jíbaro .
In 1970 the government of Puerto Rico named him a liaison and goodwill ambassador to the Puerto Rican communities in the United States. Ramito married six times and had eight children. His widow Irma Rodriguez is a jíbaro singer on her own merit, whose nickname is "La Jibarita de Salinas" .
This category is for Puerto Rican Jibaro music musicians, both vocal (singers) and instrumental (players) Pages in category "Puerto Rican Jibaro music musicians" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Octavio Ramos Pumarejo (October 12, 1932 – September 12, 2016), known professionally as Tavín Pumarejo, was a Puerto Rican jíbaro singer [1] and comedian. While better known for his work as a comedy actor on Puerto Rican television, Pumarejo released 16 albums of Puerto Rican music, with some of them becoming major hits in the island.
Jivaro or Jibaro, also spelled Hivaro or Hibaro, may refer to: Jíbaro (Puerto Rico), mountain-dwelling peasants in Puerto Rico; Jíbaro music, a Puerto Rican musical genre; Jivaroan peoples, indigenous peoples in northern Peru and eastern Ecuador; Jívaro people or Shuar, one of the Jivaroan peoples