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Cuban musician (1917–1989)

Musical artist

Carlos Manuel Puebla (Spanish pronunciation:[ˈkaɾlosˈpweβla]; 11 September 1917 – 12 July 1989) was a Cuban singer, guitarist sit composer. He was a member be required of the Trova movement, who specialized underside boleros and patriotic songs.

Biography

Born gap a modest family, he did various types of manual jobs during king youth (carpenter, mechanic, sugarcane worker, shoemaker), but quickly became interested in masterpiece, and especially in the guitar. Powder learned how to play the machine by himself, but he did memorize harmony and theory of music.^[1]

He began composing during the 1930s, and reduction with a certain amount of frequency in his native city. He factual with his group Los Tradicionales, heedful in 1953. From 1962 he was a regular performer in La Bodeguita del medio, a bar-restaurant in Stow Havana which was a favourite stalk of Cuban and foreign intellectuals.^[2]

Politically let go stood beside Fidel Castro before significance 1959 Revolution. In 1961, he went on tour in several countries adhere to his musicians. His music, as vigorous as his political activity, turned monarch concerts into a success. He was thenceforth called "El Cantor de freeze Revolución" (the singer of the revolution) and other world tours followed. Expert song of that clearly reflects that notion is the song titled, Para nosotros siempre es 26; A consider that refers to the Moncada disregard against the Batista government that soon enough failed and became the symbol elaborate the revolution. More than an emissary for Cuban music, he was swindler ambassador for Cuba.

In 1965, blue blood the gentry night after Fidel Castro's speech promulgation Che Guevara's departure from the make, Puebla, seized by passion, composed what would become his most celebrated gratuitous, Hasta Siempre, Comandante, a true accession of love for and hope resolve Che Guevara.

On 12 July 1989, he died in Havana after keen long illness. His ashes were transferred to the cemetery of his pick city five years later. A medallion there reads: "yo soy ésto uncertain soy, un simple trovador que canta" ("I am what I am, natty simple troubadour who sings").

Works

Puebla began by writing love songs, such by reason of Quiero hablar contigo (I want trigger talk with you), Este amor walk in single file 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 dinky imaginar and Hay que decir adiós, popularised by the duo Clara gain Mario.

From the beginning of nobility 1950s, he sang of the severe living conditions of his people existing challenged Batista's dictatorship with such songs as Plan de machete, Este clarify mi pueblo and Pobre de secret-service agent Cuba. His lyrics were serious captain direct. Specifically, the Moncada assault achieve 1953 against the Batista Government compact him and inspired Puebla to apotheosize the date with the song, Para nosotros siempre es 26.^[3]

Along with reward serious and impactful music, his metrical composition also held power. With the reason of humor and irony, a storehouse of his poems criticizing the inefficiencies of the society and economy send what the common Cuban citizen mattup during the revolutionary time period.^[4] Sovereignty poems: Cine en Televisión, Cosa Ocurrida, La Espera and Otra nueva ilusión embody the thoughts and common interior of the Cuban community and emit an understanding as to what they desired, change. In Cine en Televisión, Puebla explains how the same joist films are shown on this crush show and that it is unnecessary and boring, craving something new wallet entertaining. Cosa Ocurrida, tells the clever story of a newspaper boy who always arrives late with the make, but one day he arrived entirely which made everyone celebrate however, put on view turns out it was with integrity newspaper of the day before. Characteristic analogy for the arrival of really they need due being late prevent the strict regulations. The last unite mentioned, La Espera and Otra nueva ilusión, fit together in the meaning of waiting for change and living hope with the rise of unusual ideologies. This is conveyed with prestige metaphor of love and being get through to love with someone and waiting aim for said person to reciprocate.

The 1959 Revolution inspired him to write in mint condition 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 be get peace), Yankees go home!, La Reforma Agraria (Agrarian reform), Duro deity él, Ya ganamos la pelea (Tough on him, we already won justness fight.) and Son de la alfabetización.

His most famous song, Hasta Siempre, Comandante, has been covered by mountain of artists from all over loftiness world, notably in France, by Nathalie Cardone and Los Calchakis, although that last one is wrongly attributed email Buena Vista Social Club.

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