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Sonora Matancera is a Cuban band that played Latin American urban popular dance music since 1924. Learn about its history, members, genres, and notable singers such as Celia Cruz and Bienvenido Granda.
Bienvenido Granda was a Cuban singer of boleros, son montunos, guarachas and other Cuban rhythms. He was the lead singer of Sonora Matancera and had a prodigious mustache.
Silva had become an international singing star and was known as "The Queen of the Guaracha" by her fans in Latin America. From 1949 to 1950, she was the lead singer in the popular Cuban ensemble, La Sonora Matancera, at the same time continuing to compose. She received a good deal of recognition for her groups' performances throughout Latin ...
Don Fabian composed famous ballads and Afro-Cuban music such as "Dos Alma" and "Tuya, Y Mas Que Tuya" made famous by the combo orchestra La Sonora Matancera and Celia Cruz throughout the 1950s and 1970s. Many compare the collaboration of the group La Sonora Matancera & Celia Cruz with Fabian to the likes of the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
Dos gardenias is a bolero song written by Isolina Carrillo in 1945 and popularized by Daniel Santos and Ibrahim Ferrer. Learn about its history, recordings and versions in different languages and countries.
Knight was a trained trumpeter, and a "powerfully expressive" musician, according to Sue Stewart of The Guardian.At age 23, he joined the Havana-based, Afro-Cuban conjunto band, La Sonora Matancera ("the sound of Matanzas", a port with a large black population), that produced, highly rhythmic dance music rooted in traditional, Africa-based styles of son and guaracha, as revived decades later ...
Sonora Santanera is a Mexican orchestra playing tropical music with over 60 years of history. Learn about its origins, style, members, albums, awards and legal disputes.
The plot of the film was based on a musical poem by the Brito brothers, and featured the participation of the Sonora Matancera. At minute 00:03:57 of the film, Julio Brito, co-author of the music, can be seen singing. The Sonora Matancera makes its appearance at minute 00:06:20, performing the song "Guaguancó". Towards the end of the film ...