• Son cubano is a genre of music and dance that originated in the highlands of eastern Cuba during the late 19th century. It is a syncretic genre that blends...
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  • Hanine Y Son Cubano is a music group formed in 1999 that merges Cuban music and Arabic music. It was in the early 1990s, when he lived in Havana, that...
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  • as calypso. Main article: son cubano Son Cubano originated in Cuba among afro-Caribbean people of Bantu descent. Son Cubano incorporates European and...
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    mounted on stands. Bongos are mainly employed in the rhythm section of son cubano and salsa ensembles, often alongside other drums such as the larger congas...
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  • Chan Chan (song) (category Sones cubanos)
    Holguín Province on the east side of Cuba. It is a common practice in son cubano to mention Cuban toponyms, as in the 1952 standard "Alto Songo". According...
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  • Son montuno is a subgenre of son cubano developed by Arsenio Rodríguez in the 1940s. Although son montuno ("mountain sound") had previously referred to...
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  • Cuban music documentaries. It outlines the origins and development of son cubano, including interviews with musicians such as Celia Cruz and Roberto Torres...
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  • to be used in order to distinguish Caribbean genres such as cumbia and son cubano from inland genres such as tejano and norteño. Due to its geographical...
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  • combined American big band music with Afro-Cuban rhythms, primarily the son cubano, but also conga and rumba. Although taking its name from the latter, ballroom...
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  • region of Guantánamo, where it was used to play changüí, a precursor of son cubano. Its exact origins are not known, but it is assumed to have developed...
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  • final, improvised section, which incorporated the guajeos typical of son cubano (also known as montunos). These guajeos became the essence of the genre...
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    origin. Most songs considered as salsa are primarily based on son montuno and son Cubano, with elements of cha-cha-chá, bolero, rumba, mambo, jazz, R&B...
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  • Son 14 is a fourteen-member son band from Santiago, Cuba, formed on November 11, 1978 by Adalberto Álvarez and Eduardo 'El Tiburon' Morales. In 1984,...
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  • of the 21st century came to a close, working as an executive chef at Son Cubano, a short-lived Cuban restaurant on West 27th Street in Manhattan. The...
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    Barretto's recordings would remain rooted in more traditional genres such as son cubano. A master of the descarga (improvised jam session), Barretto was a long-time...
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    called son. The term son literally means "sound" in Spanish, and is also applied to other unrelated genres, most notably son cubano. Major son traditions...
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    Rubén Blades (redirect from Son del Solar)
    Cuban nueva trova as well as experimental tempos and politically inspired Son Cubano salsa to his music, creating "thinking persons' (salsa) dance music"....
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  • 1930s, when Trío Matamoros made famous their mix of bolero and son cubano known as bolero-son, the genre was a staple of the musical repertoire of most Latin...
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  • AfroCubism (category Son cubano albums)
    AfroCubism Released 2 November 2010 Recorded 2010 Studio Sonoland Studios, Madrid, Spain Genre Son cubano, Mande music Label World Circuit Producer Nick Gold...
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    commonly referred to as "Congolese rumba" (despite being actually based on son cubano). Its influence in Spain is testified by rumba flamenca and derivatives...
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  • Mambo Merengue Méringue Pachanga Rumba Guaguancó Salsa dura romántica Son cubano montuno Timba Trova Vallenato (Charanga-vallenata) Afro-Latin Afro-Peruvian...
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    reggae, classical, R&B, folk, blues, jazz, funk, soul, rock, hip-hop/rap, son cubano, and religious, amongst many others. "Ojalá Que Llueva Café" ("I Wish...
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  • Morena Son are a Cuban son septeto from Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. They have toured South America and Europe (Italy, England, Germany, Switzerland, Spain...
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    as: Tony Hanna, Demis Roussos, Jean-Jacques Lafon, Nahawand, Hanine Y Son Cubano, Sébastien El Chato, Jose Gàlvez, Jose Fernandez, as well as a collective...
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    Son jarocho ("Veracruz Sound") is a regional folk musical style of Mexican Son from Veracruz, a Mexican state along the Gulf of Mexico. It evolved over...
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  • Roots reggae Rocksteady Rumba Salsa Ska Ska punk Two-tone Soca Power soca Son cubano Songo Timba Twoubadou Zouk Hispanic Boogaloo Bullerengue Flamenco Cantes...
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  • The former is notable for fusing Cubaton with other genres, such as son Cubano, conga, cumbia, salsa, merengue, and Cuban rumba, as well as styles and...
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    Orchestra Baobab (category Son cubano groups)
    guitar. Since their formation, the band has predominantly played a mix of son cubano, Wolof music, and to a lesser extent Mande musical traditions. Following...
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  • California Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-520-93944-8. Acosta, Leonardo (2003). Cubano Be, Cubano Bop: One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian...
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  • Conjunto (category Son cubano)
    instruments (a piano, a tumbadora and various trumpets) to the typical son cubano ensemble, the septeto. Septetos consisted of a lead vocalist and guitar(s)...
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