''Son is the most sublime music to delight the soul''
(Famous phrase by peerless composer Ignacio Piñeiro)

Born at our eastern mountains, Cuban Son is a festive-tuned genre of singing and dancing, which has gained a top place in our musical history.
Its lyrics portray Cubans` idiosincrasy, where the smiling seriousness, humor, niceness or anecdote find place at the most different topics.

In this eternal oscilation, Son is revering love, women, couple relationships, famous characters, Cuban cities, musicians and rhythms plus all events of daily life. Its structure cames from African and European roots, alterning couplet and chorus in a answer-like form.

There isn`t a unique Son regarding to origin and development, they have became definite types around different zones of the oriental and middle part of the island, above all around the half of XIX century. In other historical stages, around the 20s and the 50s, notable styles have been conformed in hands of Miguel Matamoros, Ignacio Piñeiro, Arsenio Rodríguez and the central-occidental nucleus formed by Julio Cuevas, Benny Moré and Sonora Matancera.
In this way, Adalberto Alvarez`s figure represents a contemporary icon, feeding from tradition to concede Son a contemporary and singular taste.

In its evolution, instrumental format was diversified, running from trío, sextet, septet, conjunto until jazz band and other groups owning the sonero repertoire.

In Cuba, Son`s fusion with diverse genres has aroused different combinations highlighting bolero-son, son-cha, guajira-son, son-pregón and its heritage is evident at some other sonororous outcomes citing songo, guasón and the late-century timba. In this way, unavoidable interactions among diverse sorts from international and Caribbean contexts have been produced, highlighting salsa movement.