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Sara González Gómez
Sara González Gómez ( Placetas, Cuba; June 13, 1949 or 1951 - La Habana, Cuba; February 1, 2012) was a Cuban singer. In the 1960s, she studied the viola in the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory. She graduated from the National School of Art Instructors where she also taught guitar and solfège. She was one of the founders of the Nueva Trova Movement and one of its main proponents. She belonged to The Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry ( ICAIC) Sound Experimentation Group (GES), under the direction of Leo Brouwer, where she studied composition, harmony and orchestration. She produced music for film, television and radio as well as participating in several group albums with other figures from the Nueva Trova Movement and the GES. She was in a relationship with the painter Diana Balboa. Sara González shared the stage with Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés, Augusto Blanca, Joan Manuel Serrat, Chico Buarque, Mercedes Sosa, Soledad Bravo, Daniel Viglietti, Pete See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Placetas
Placetas () is a city in the Villa Clara Province in the center of Cuba; before the change in the country's government in 1959 the province was called Las Villas. The town is also known as because of its wild Lauraceae, laurel trees. Placetas is also a , one of 13 subdivisions of the Villa Clara Province. Cuba's geographical center, Guaracabulla, is located in this municipality. History Placetas was founded on September 9, 1861 mainly due to the sugar production industry. Nowadays, the main produce of the area is tobacco. The main contribution to its foundation came from Jose Martinez-Fortun y Erles, a Spain, Spanish Marques and former colonel in the Spanish Army. The town is located on the Carretera Central (Cuba), Carretera Central road, which cuts through the town. The town's position on this road has allowed it to serve as a stop for many travellers. Placetas has grown considerably over the years, being declared a town in 1881 and a city in 1925. In 1879 it was established a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Viglietti
Daniel Alberto Viglietti Indart (24 July 1939 – 30 October 2017) was an Uruguayan folk singer, guitarist, composer, and political activist. He was one of the main exponents of Uruguayan popular song and also of the ''Nueva Canción'' or "New Song" of the 1960s and early 1970s. Career He founded, in 1971, along with other musicians like José "Pepe" Guerra, Braulio López, the music scholar Coriún Aharonián, Myriam Dibarboure, María Teresa Sande and Notary Public Edgardo Bello, the recognized independent record label Ayuí/Tacuabé in order to promote and support valuable Uruguayan musical expressions. He performed the works of Cuban ''Nueva Trova'' stars Silvio Rodríguez and Pablo Milanés and Brazil's Chico Buarque and Edu Lobo, worked with Cuban composer and arranger Leo Brouwer. His recordings are widely available, especially "Trópicos" (1972). Viglietti was imprisoned in 1972 by his own government. He was supported by the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre as an intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Versos Sencillos
''Simple Verses'' (Spanish: ''Versos sencillos'') is a poetry collection by Cuban writer and independence hero José Martí. Published in October 1891, it was the last of Martí's works to be printed before his death in 1895. Originally written in Spanish, it has been translated into over ten languages. Among the poems in the collection are ''Yo soy un hombre sincero'' (I), ''Si ves un monte de espumas'' (V) and ''Cultivo una rosa blanca'' (XXXIX). Verses pruned from various poems were adapted into the folk song "Guantanamera", which is the most popular patriotic song of Cuba and was popularized in the US in the 1960s during the American folk music revival. Overview The bulk of the book was written in 1890 while Martí was convalescing in a small town called Haines Falls in the Catskill Mountains. The manuscript was first read in public in December of that year at the home of Carmen Miyares in New York City; it was published ten months later by Louis Weiss & Co. of New York. The b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Martí
José Julián Martí Pérez (; 28 January 1853 – 19 May 1895) was a Cuban nationalism, nationalist, poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, and publisher, who is considered a Cuban national hero because of his role in the liberation of his country from Spain. He was also an important figure in Latin American literature. He was a political activist and is considered an important philosopher and Political philosophy, political theorist. Through his writings and political activity, he became a symbol of Cuba's bid for independence from the Spanish Empire in the 19th century and is referred to as the "Apostle of Cuban Independence". From adolescence on, he dedicated his life to the promotion of liberty, political independence for Cuba, and intellectual independence for all Hispanic America, Spanish Americans; his death was used as a cry for Cuban independence from Spain by both the Cuban revolutionaries and those Cubans previously reluctant to start a revolt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liuba María Hevia
Liuba María Hevia (born in Havana, Cuba, December 14, 1964) is a singer and composer from Cuba. She has released several CDs, toured internationally, and collaborated with various artists. Hevia took up the guitar at age 8 and began performing as part of the Cuban musical movement called Nueva Trova (New Cuban Verse) in 1982. She has recorded with Silvio Rodriguez and Pablo Milanes. Liuba María Hevia anuncia un disco de duetos] December 3, 2014 Cancioneros.com In the 1990s she gained wider exposure in collaborations with , Gema and Pavel, Raul Torres, the duet Cachivache, and the trio En Serie. Her first song recorded was ''Coloreando la esperanza'' (Coloring Hope) in 1993. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Carvalho
Elizabeth "Beth" Santos Leal de Carvalho (May 5, 1946 – April 30, 2019) was a Brazilian samba singer, guitarist, cavaquinist and composer. Biography Carvalho was raised in a middle-class family in Rio de Janeiro's South Zone. Her father, João Francisco Leal de Carvalho, was a lawyer. She grew up influenced by different types of music. Her father used to take her to samba school rehearsals, and her mother was a lover of classical music who encouraged her to become a ballerina. She started playing the guitar as a teenager, and got involved with the emerging Bossa Nova movement, winning a nationwide song contest on TV at the age of 19. Following a 1967 album, "Muito Na Onda," with the project 'Conjunto 3D,' Carvalho did her first solo record, 1968's "Andança", and carried the song of the same name to victory in a larger festival, which brought her to prominence. Although she started her career with Bossa Nova, that was an ephemeral phase which lasted less than one year. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Guerra
Pedro Manuel Guerra Mansito (born 2 June 1966), better known as Pedro Guerra, is a Spanish singer-songwriter. He originally performed under the name Pedro Manuel. Biography Pedro Manuel Guerra Mancito was born in Güímar, Tenerife, on June 2, 1966. Guerra is the son of Pedro Guerra Cabrera, the first President of the Canarian Parliament. He began studying the guitar at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Tenerife. At the age of 16 he started to perform regularly throughout Tenerife. At 18, he moved to the university city San Cristóbal de La Laguna, where he met fellow singer-songwriters Andrés Molina, Rogelio Botanz, and Marisa Delgado, with whom he formed Taller Canario de Canción in 1985. Marisa left the group the following year. Pedro Guerras' style is based on Canarian folk music, as well as contemporary popular music, Latin American music, Latin American, and Music of North Africa, North African music. In 1993, he moved to Madrid and embarked upon a solo care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Brown (Puerto Rican Musician)
Roy Brown Ramírez (born July 18, 1945) is a Puerto Rican musician and singer.Liner notes of "Basta Ya... Revolución" (Disco Libre) Early years Brown's father was an American United States Navy, naval officer and his mother a native of Puerto Rican citizenship, Puerto Rico. Brown was raised during turbulent times in the United States. Among the important issues of those days were racism, the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. Most of these events went on to form an important part in his ideals and his way of thinking. In the late-1960s Brown graduated from Academia del Perpetuo Socorro, later enrolled in the University of Puerto Rico. He enjoyed writing poems and while he was a student, he became actively involved in groups against the Vietnam War, poor living conditions, and especially in favor of the independence movement of Puerto Rico. Brown was also involved in the student disturbances which spread throughout the university, by participating in the protest and pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Seeger
Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and social activist. He was a fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s and had a string of hit records in the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 14 weeks in 1950. Members of the Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthyism, McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest song, protest music in support of nuclear disarmament, international disarmament, civil rights, workers' rights, Counterculture of the 1960s, counterculture, environmentalism, environmental causes, and ending the Vietnam War. Among the prolific songwriter's best-known songs are "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (with additional lyrics by Joe Hickerson), "If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)" (with Lee Hays of the Weavers), "Kisses Sweeter than Wine" (also with Hays), and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
