To be more precise...... carnaval is to celebrate the attack on Moncado (havent got exact name here) the 26th of July and is usually the days before that (10...
... It's: "Moncada". "Guillermón Moncada" (taken from the name of one of the most important generals in the past Independence Wars) is the exact name of ...
... Not only. Read here: http://www.lajiribilla.cu/2001/n16_agosto/473_16.html and have fun! ["... Era bajista del grupo Moncada. En una gira por Italia (en el...
I trust you, Ferr, (you already know that) That's very interesting ! ...I am not very much surprised because, many cuban musicians play various instruments,...
On Gracias Formell, Roberto wasn't the person initially chosen to sing La Habana Si. The person originally chosen did such a poor job in the studio, they...
I'm very surprised ! I knew Mayito, when he was still a student at the ISA (Instituto Superior de Arte). He stayed at the school during a summer-course for...
¡Qué sorpresas da la vida! Great article with surprising details I have never known of !! What a great story !! I did not know that that really great song on...
In Mayito's first days/months with Van Van, he wasn't very good. He was very shy and lacked the self-confidence to really belt out all those tunes. He would go...
... usually ... The Santiago carnival is not to celebrate the Moncada Barracks attack. They had traditionally been celebrated at the end of July, before the...
I just got a new computer capable of downloading music, so I'm trying to join the 21st century and learn how to do it. I listened to the mystery coro of dicen...
This will give us plenty of fodder for conversation if nothing else. Kevin Mastro is a fascinating guy who got this crazy idea of moving to Havana and forming...
I've read half of it so far and it looks like crap to me. Paulito's style was more aggresive in the 90s? Has this guy actually listened to any of his albums?...
Woo hoo! Even if all we did was piss him off, Tirso Duarte now knows that TG exists! So here's the story: after a concert in Victoria a fan talked to Tirso and...
I found this interview fascinating. It's not "crap," it's one guy's opinion. I've spent years listening to musicians theorize about how things work. Why...
well that doesn't really tell us much, does it? Just a lot of chest-beating bravado... timbera_mayor <timbera_mayor@...> wrote: Woo hoo! Even if all we...
... No it doesn't tell us much, but it's very Cuban. Personally I think it's cool that he knows that there are people in the world who actually find it a topic...
Anyone with an ego that big would never entertain the notion that people WEREN'T talking about him... ... No it doesn't tell us much, but it's very Cuban....
... Since he didn't specifically address the issue I don't know exactly what the deal is with what type of musicians he was using. But to have people saying...
yes, it could have come from Gustavo - certainly a lot of the things I heard from Mastro I recognise in that interview... The thing which gave it credence for...
I think it's just realistic to expect someone to get pissed off at being called a skinflint or the rest of what was said about Tirso. I mean, even if the...
... Yes, and of course I love Tirso and wish I had been sober enough to remember to take the phone number home so I could have actually talked to him. That...
I agree. I was just trying to point out that his response didn't really tell us anything (except that he was pissed off - and even that was subtext). ...
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... I find it damn difficult too! My only poor poor contribution, about "Cabeza mala", is that I'm very... undecided between Juan Formell and Jorge Leliebre....
I would have thougt the same: maybe Juan Formell ? The liners notes show that Jorge Leliebre is also performing coros but I could not recognize his voice....