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Lamento Borincano
Canario Y Su Grupo
Arhoolie Records•2001
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Canario Y Su Grupo
Canario Y Su Grupo
Canario Y Su Grupo has been played on NTS shows including Mild Animals, with Lamento Borincano first played on 10 July 2020.
El Canário, (Manuel A. Jiménez, Orocovis, Puerto Rico, January 1, 1895 – November 21, 1975) musician and composer, most famous for his work in the plena style.
Plena is the most typical rhythm of Puerto Rico, one of the most celebrated composers of this genre was Canario, who in the 1930s greatly popularized a somewhat modernized version of plena in Puerto Rico and the barrios of New York by adding piano, horns and bass to the basic plena arrangement with Canario Y Su Grupo
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Canario Y Su Grupo
Canario Y Su Grupo has been played on NTS shows including Mild Animals, with Lamento Borincano first played on 10 July 2020.
El Canário, (Manuel A. Jiménez, Orocovis, Puerto Rico, January 1, 1895 – November 21, 1975) musician and composer, most famous for his work in the plena style.
Plena is the most typical rhythm of Puerto Rico, one of the most celebrated composers of this genre was Canario, who in the 1930s greatly popularized a somewhat modernized version of plena in Puerto Rico and the barrios of New York by adding piano, horns and bass to the basic plena arrangement with Canario Y Su Grupo
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