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An
Island that Sounds
By Jorge Gómez Barranco*
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Cuba
is an island that sounds.
It's impossible to walk around our streets without listening to some
radio, tape recorder or maybe a girl spoiling any unforgettable song,
a seller improvising to promote his goods, a group of pioneers walking
towards a near museum singing any song in fashion...
Music has accompained and it`s currently accompanying Cubans in all
actions, since the most extraordinary struggles until the most intimate
love act.
It explains why the guitars have run from hand to hand and any event
has had its song, any city its own montuno, any custom its guaracha,
songo or danzón.
Only this fact can explain why Sindo,
Corona, Portillo,
Teresita
Fernández, Silvio,
Sara González, Roldán, Caturla, Lecuona,
Fariñas, Frank,
Leo
Brouwer, Faílde, Romeu, Matamoros,
Piñeiro,
Aragón,
Benny
and Van
Van exist.
It only can explain why so many simple persons from our country feel
as their own success, each triumph of our music in any scene, any
event, any continent.
(*) Director of Moncada
Group.
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