100 años de música cubana
Si hay algo en este mundo que identifica a los cubanos es la música. La música nos une, nos mueve y nos hace sonreír aún en las peores circunstancias.
Este 5 de abril se presentó en el Museo Americano de la diáspora cubana un documental que recorre 100 años de música cubana, de 1850 – 1960.
Los 33 ritmos cubanos, las figuras emblemáticas como Celia Cruz, Olga Guillot y el Trío Matamoros, despertaron las emociones del público presente que veía, recordaba, sonreía y bailaba.
Si hay algo en este mundo que identifica a los cubanos es la música. La música nos une, nos mueve y nos hace sonreír aún en las peores circunstancias.
Este 5 de abril se presentó en el Museo Americano de la diáspora cubana un documental que recorre 100 años de música cubana, de 1850 – 1960.
Los 33 ritmos cubanos, las figuras emblemáticas como Celia Cruz, Olga Guillot y el Trío Matamoros, despertaron las emociones del público presente que veía, recordaba, sonreía y bailaba.
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00:26 and three Cuban rhythms, the emblematic figures like Celia Cruz, Olga Guillot and the Matamoros trio
00:33 awakened the emotions of the present public that I saw, remembered, smiled and danced.
00:39 [Music]
00:42 The original idea of this documentary was to have a kind of encyclopedia
00:48 where not everyone could fit in time, but that would awaken the intellect of the people who saw it,
00:54 especially for the younger people who did not know who were the composers and the most famous
01:01 Cuban composers in these 100 years.
01:03 They can have much more, 500 years of history than 65 of dictatorship. And this material is made for that,
01:13 to show the youth, the born in Cuba, the new generations, why we feel proud to be Cuban.
01:24 The history of the main Cuban musicians, the best known and the type of musicians,
01:29 because Cuba had 33 musical genres, more than any other country. After Cuba, there is Colombia,
01:36 which has 11, and from there on, imagine, the United States has like 5 or 6, and Cuba, the truth is that
01:43 when they made the island of Cuba, they created music.
01:46 It's wonderful. I learned a lot about Cuban music, which is super vast and sometimes we don't know so much,
01:55 and this gave us the possibility that not only Cubans, but the rest of the people in the world,
02:02 see how wonderful Cuban music is.
02:05 Our music is from all over the world, it is international, worldwide, universal.
02:21 Look, I was shocked, I always knew that Cuba is in Latin America, let's say,
02:26 of the Spanish language, of so many dances, of so many rhythms, of so many things,
02:32 but I was shocked, I did not imagine, not so much, not so much music known,
02:39 listened to by my grandfather, my father, and I love to dance.
02:43 I love the rum, I love the salsa, I love all that, so I'm super, super happy.
02:49 Guantanamera, Guajira, Guantanamera.
02:54 I am Cuban, but I learned a new story that I never knew.
03:02 A story about Cuba, in this documentary, that I never knew, and what impact Cuba had,
03:07 not only in Cuban music, but in the music of the whole world.
03:10 It was very interesting to know this and to know much more about what my grandparents,
03:14 about the music that my grandparents listened to at that time.
03:17 There are many young people who do not know that, do not know the music they are singing at the moment,
03:22 that comes from a Cuban producer, a Cuban director.
03:27 This, with Cuban pride, basically, people have to understand that it is a very deep thing
03:34 and that Cubans continue to build here in the United States.
03:37 Cuban music is famous all over the world, it has a unique talent, a special rhythm.
03:45 We are a symbol of optimism, joy, life, sugar, as they say in Cuba.
03:52 Sugar, thank you very much.
03:54 The wonderful thing about this documentary is precisely because as you grow up,
04:02 you remember, you come to stories, you find yourself, you are surprised,
04:07 you are raving about these songs and remembering stories.
04:10 The chachacha, the mambo, the huaracha, the bolero, it's a piece out of the series.
04:17 And well, the nostalgia hit us and the memory of Cuba and music and life,
04:27 freedom and democracy, hit us too.
04:30 And as we are very old, we know many of those composers and those artists.
04:37 And the production, even at the end of this documentary, with a phrase that I put,
04:44 where I put the field of Cuba and where a voice comes that says,
04:48 that the legend tells, that the good spirit of the island speaks to the ghosts of Maniwa
04:56 and tells them, for taste, the colors, but for music, we, the Cubans.
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