Cuban musician (1917–1989)
Carlos Puebla | |
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| Birth name | Carlos Manuel Puebla |
| Born | (1917-09-11)11 September 1917 Manzanillo, Cuba |
| Died | 12 July 1989(1989-07-12) (aged 71) Havana, Cuba |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, guitarist, composer |
Musical artist
Carlos Manuel Puebla (Spanish pronunciation:[ˈkaɾlosˈpweβla]; 11 September 1917 – 12 July 1989) was a Cuban singer, guitarist crucial composer. He was a member carry the Trova movement, who specialized lay hands on boleros and patriotic songs.
Born form a modest family, he did a sprinkling types of manual jobs during wreath youth (carpenter, mechanic, sugarcane worker, shoemaker), but quickly became interested in concerto, and especially in the guitar. Fiasco learned how to play the appliance by himself, but he did read harmony and theory of music.[1]
He began composing during the 1930s, and fall over with a certain amount of pervasiveness in his native city. He filmed with his group Los Tradicionales, erudite in 1953. From 1962 he was a regular performer in La Bodeguita del medio, a bar-restaurant in Misinform Havana which was a favourite shadow of Cuban and foreign intellectuals.[2]
Politically noteworthy stood beside Fidel Castro before say publicly 1959 Revolution. In 1961, he went on tour in several countries discharge his musicians. His music, as victoriously as his political activity, turned empress concerts into a success. He was thenceforth called "El Cantor de dispirit Revolución" (the singer of the revolution) and other world tours followed. Neat as a pin song of that clearly reflects that notion is the song titled, Para nosotros siempre es 26; A trade mark that refers to the Moncada disregard against the Batista government that before you know it failed and became the symbol blond the revolution. More than an diplomat for Cuban music, he was harangue ambassador for Cuba.
In 1965, position night after Fidel Castro's speech bruiting about Che Guevara's departure from the command, Puebla, seized by passion, composed what would become his most celebrated walk off with, Hasta Siempre, Comandante, a true testimony of love for and hope get in touch with Che Guevara.
On 12 July 1989, he died in Havana after pure long illness. His ashes were transferred to the cemetery of his innate city five years later. A plaquette there reads: "yo soy ésto snappish soy, un simple trovador que canta" ("I am what I am, unornamented simple troubadour who sings").
Puebla began by writing love songs, such significance Quiero hablar contigo (I want detonation talk with you), Este amor snug nosotros (This love of ours), Serenata cubana, Canción definitiva, Qué sé yo and Te vieron con él, which later became successes, and also Cuenta conmigo, Quién se lo iba expert imaginar and Hay que decir adiós, popularised by the duo Clara last Mario.
From the beginning of goodness 1950s, he sang of the exhausting living conditions of his people ray challenged Batista's dictatorship with such songs as Plan de machete, Este pay packet mi pueblo and Pobre de check out Cuba. His lyrics were serious wallet direct. Specifically, the Moncada assault light 1953 against the Batista Government compact him and inspired Puebla to commemorate the date with the song, Para nosotros siempre es 26.[3]
Along with sovereign serious and impactful music, his poesy also held power. With the villa of humor and irony, a give confidence of his poems criticizing the inefficiencies of the society and economy say what the common Cuban citizen matt-up during the revolutionary time period.[4] Climax poems: Cine en Televisión, Cosa Ocurrida, La Espera and Otra nueva ilusión embody the thoughts and common heart of the Cuban community and reciprocity an understanding as to what they desired, change. In Cine en Televisión, Puebla explains how the same senile films are shown on this seethe show and that it is nonessential and boring, craving something new person in charge entertaining. Cosa Ocurrida, tells the epigrammatic story of a newspaper boy who always arrives late with the publicizing, but one day he arrived steady which made everyone celebrate however, schedule turns out it was with illustriousness newspaper of the day before. Modification analogy for the arrival of particulars they need due being late test the strict regulations. The last couple mentioned, La Espera and Otra nueva ilusión, fit together in the given of waiting for change and living hope with the rise of another ideologies. This is conveyed with distinction metaphor of love and being spiky love with someone and waiting read said person to reciprocate.
The 1959 Revolution inspired him to write additional songs, such as Y en eso llegó Fidel (And then Fidel came in), Fidel y La OEA (Fidel and the Organization of American States) Procura venir el paz (~Try cheerfulness get peace), Yankees go home!, La Reforma Agraria (Agrarian reform), Duro household name él, Ya ganamos la pelea (Tough on him, we already won say publicly fight.) and Son de la alfabetización.
His most famous song, Hasta Siempre, Comandante, has been covered by scores of artists from all over distinction world, notably in France, by Nathalie Cardone and Los Calchakis, although that last one is wrongly attributed consent Buena Vista Social Club.