{"id":201018,"date":"2019-06-19T17:52:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T21:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=201018"},"modified":"2019-06-19T17:52:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T21:52:21","slug":"faustino-oramas-el-guayabero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/music-culture\/faustino-oramas-el-guayabero\/","title":{"rendered":"Faustino Oramas, “El Guayabero”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last June 4, according to his birth certificate, Faustino Oramas Osorio, “El Guayabero,” one of the legends of Cuban music, would have been 107 years old. While I write this I have my doubts because, although it is known that the trova singer died in March 2007 at the age of 96, in his native Holgu\u00edn many claimed that he lived to be more than a century old.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo: Kaloian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His life and his songs were in themselves a mixture of fables and anecdotes. In fact, his stage name came after he escaped from a town in eastern Cuba called Guayabero (now Mella municipality, in Santiago de Cuba). And all because of his Don Juan airs. He had fallen in love with the wife of the corporal of the rural guard.<\/span><\/p>\n

After the flight he wrote: “Trigue\u00f1ita del alma no me niegues tu amor, \/ trigue\u00f1ita del alma dame tu coraz\u00f3n, \/ nunca pienses que un d\u00eda\/ pueda yo olvidarte. \/ \u00a1En Guayabero, mam\u00e1, me quieren dar!\/ \u00a1En Guayabero, mam\u00e1, me quieren dar!”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo: Kaloian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His sense of humor led him to use picaresque language in the texts of his songs. So much so that the bard was also baptized as “The king of double meaning.” Among his refrains, the most famous one may be the one that goes like this: “A m\u00ed me gusta que baile Marieta\u2026\u201d. \u201cMarieta a m\u00ed me pidi\u00f3 \/ tres pesos con disimulo. \/ Y me dijo que me pagaba \/con el tiempo y\u2026 sin apuros.”<\/span><\/p>\n