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Los Hermanos Rigual
Los Hermanos Rigual were a Cuban vocal group based in Mexico, mainly active in the sixties. It consisted of the brothers Pedro, Carlos and Mario Rigual, all natives of Guantánamo. The trio started performing as guitarists and singers in Havana before moving to Mexico, where they got their first successes.Dario Salvatori. "Hermanos Rigual, Los". Gino Castaldo (ed.). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. Their first hit was the cha-cha tune "Corazón de melón", which was one of the best-selling songs in Mexico in 1958 and was later covered in English by Rosemary Clooney with the Pérez Prado orchestra, and in Japanese by Moriyama Kayoko under the title "メロンの気持". They had another major hit in 1962, thanks to the song "Cuando calienta el sol" which became an international hit.Dario Salvatori. "Hermanos Rigual, Los". Gino Castaldo (ed.). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. Following the success of the song for a few yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guantánamo
Guantánamo (, , ) is a municipality and city in southeast Cuba and capital of Guantánamo Province. Guantánamo is served by the Caimanera port near the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, site of a U.S. naval base. The area produces sugarcane and cotton wool. These are traditional parts of the economy. History The city was founded in 1797 in the area of a farm named ''Santa Catalina''. The toponym "Guantánamo" means, in Taíno language, "land between the rivers".Guantánamo on EcuRed Geography The municipality is mountainous in the north, at Alejandro de Humboldt National Park, where it overlays the Sierra Maestra (mountains), and borders the Windward Passage of the Caribbean Sea in the south. It is crossed by the Bano, Guantánamo, Yateras, Guaso, San Andrés, and Sabanalamar rivers. The city is spread with a sq ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Havana
Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Cuba ''''. . The city has a population of 2.3million inhabitants, and it spans a total of – making it the largest city by area, the most populous city, and the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cha-cha-cha (music)
Cha cha cha may refer to: * ''Cha-cha-chá'' (music), a style of Cuban dance music * Cha-cha-cha (dance), a Latin American dance accompanying the music Film and television * ''Cha Cha Cha'' (film), a 2013 Italian crime film * ''Cha Cha Cha'' (1964 film), a 1964 Indian film * ''Cha Cha Cha'' (TV series), a TV show from Argentina * Cha Cha Cha Films, a film production company Music * ''Cha Cha Cha'' (album), a 1995 album by EMF * ''Cha Cha Cha'', 1955 album by Monchito and the Mambo Royals * ''Cha Cha Cha'', 1982 album by Anne Linnet Band * ''Cha Cha Cha'', 1977 album by Irwin Goodman * ''Cha Cha Cha'', 2014 album by Abelardo Barroso * "Cha Cha Cha" (song), a 1989 song by hip hop artist MC Lyte * "The Bear Cha Cha Cha", a song from Bear in the Big Blue House * "The Cha-Cha-Cha", a 1962 song by Bobby Rydell * "Cha Cha Cha", by The Little Ones, 2006 * "Cha Cha Cha", a 1985 song by Finzy Kontini Other * Cha Cha Cha Township, a shopping centre in rural Zimbabwe * ChaChaCha, a te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Top-ten Songs For The 1950s In Mexico
''For the monthly number-one songs of the decade, see List of number-one songs from the 1950s (Mexico).'' This is a list of the 10 most popular songs in Mexico for each year between 1950 and 1960, as published in the book "''El Sound Track de la vida cotidiana''", by Fernando Mejía Barquera. Overview In addition to the continued prominence of bolero music (typically performed by Trío romántico, tríos) which had been popular since the previous decade, Mexican music in the 50s was dominated by domestic ranchera music and Cuba, Cuban dance genres, such as Mambo (music), mambo and danzón. Ranchera music, generally associated with rural Mexico but popular in urban areas as well, got a considerable boost from the massive popularity of Pedro Infante (an actor and ranchera singer who was present on the Mexican music charts from the beginning of the decade until his death in 1957) and the emergence of songwriter José Alfredo Jiménez (who, after writing many hit songs for other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
