Pica Pica by EL GAFA Y SUS ILUSTRES (Digital Album)

“Los Ilustres”, is a septet of popular and traditional Cuban music led by the renowned singer Jorge Rodriguez Penton known in the artistic guild as “El Gafa”, which defends the most native of the cultural heritage of the island. Coming from different parts of the country, its members know the techniques of interpretation and style of our music. Jorgue Rodriguez Penton “El Gafa”, of recognized artistic trajectory by our town, was one of the main voices of the famous group Bamboleo and at the moment leader of “Los Ilustres”.

The son montuno, the cha-cha-cha, the guaracha and changüi are some of the genres that we will be able to find in the following album, which seeks to represent in a synthetic way, sonorities that are identical to those of Cuba. A large part of the repertoire included in this CD is unpublished, works by Clemente Hechavarría, one of the most prolific Cuban composers of recent times, who has achieved a wide catalog of works mainly in genres indigenous to our country. Santiaguero by birth, habanero by conviction, denotes in his works the exoticism of the Cuban East, the sting of our idiosyncrasy, without disdaining the love theme, this time from a more contemporary literary…  more