{"id":269401,"date":"2023-05-09T18:55:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T22:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=269401"},"modified":"2023-05-09T18:55:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T22:55:03","slug":"the-son-is-still-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/music-culture\/the-son-is-still-there\/","title":{"rendered":"The son is still there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In October 2020, May 8 was officially <\/span>declared<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0in Cuba as the Day of the Cuban Son. It is a tribute to a vocal and instrumental genre of great popularity and influence on and off the island. The initiative came from Camag\u00fcey\u2019s Adalberto \u00c1lvarez (1948-2021), rightly known as \u201cEl Caballero del Son,\u201d one of the most constant musicians in the defense and promotion of this musical-dance expression.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMay 8 is a representative day since we commemorate the birth of Miguelito Cun\u00ed (1917-1984) and Miguel Matamoros (1894-1971), that is why this date was proposed,\u201d the National Music Award winner (2008) and author of songs as well known as \u201cA Bayamo en coche,\u201d \u201cSon para un sonero\u201d or \u201cEl son de la madrugada.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is impossible to talk about Cuban popular music without mentioning the contributions of this genre, which represents us worldwide as much as the mambo, the cha-cha and the danz\u00f3n. Said in the style of the guarachera and sonera Celia Cruz: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He who never wanted to hear Matamoros \/ and never choired his Son de la Loma \/ shouldn\u2019t sing it now. \/ And he who never loved the King of Rhythm, the great Benny Mor\u00e9 \/ what a bad Cuban he is. \/ Because the son is from Cuba \/ and those who feel Cuban \/ carry it in their hearts<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next, we take a tour of the origins of the son and present some opinions of experts and performers of this very Cuban genre.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pablo Milan\u00e9s \u2013 Son Homenaje a Miguelito Cun\u00ed\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OtLvEbvYM3w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><b>\u201cThe son that has no end\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Crist\u00f3bal D\u00edaz Ayala (1930) is an authoritative voice on issues related to Cuban music. The extraordinary collector is the author of several books such as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuba canta y baila, discograf\u00eda de la m\u00fasica cubana 1898-1925, Cien canciones cubanas del milenio, Los contrapuntos de la m\u00fasica cubana,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> among others that exhaustively analyze the birth and development of our popular rhythms. One of the most important pillars of maestro D\u00edaz Ayala to Cuban and Latin American culture is his collection of books, records, among other materials, donated to Florida International University (FIU) in 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a conclusive way, maestro D\u00edaz Ayala maintains that the son \u201cis the most important musical genre of Cuban music\u201d and that, although some researchers have given it an ancient origin, dating back to the 16th century, in 1971 the musicologist Alberto Muguercia proved with solid argumentation the fallacy of such a theory. The son was born in the mountainous area of the Sierra Maestra in the second half or the end of the 19th century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And he adds:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe son arrives in Havana in 1909, when the Permanent Army was created by President Jos\u00e9 Miguel G\u00f3mez, precisely one of its objectives was to uproot the soldier from his point of origin, moving the troops to serve in places distant from their place of origin. Thus, apparently, a group from the eastern region of Cuba who cultivated the son ended up in Havana.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another notable researcher, the musicologist Mar\u00eda Teresa Linares, when referring to the origins of the son, points out: \u201cThe son was a simple dance, with a form based on a fixed scheme by the chorus and an improvised, variant motif, by a soloist. Motifs that were called \u2018montuno,\u2019 because they came from the countryside, from the mountainous interior, from the mountains.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_269404\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-269404\" style=\"width: 1400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-7-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-269404\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-7-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-7-1.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-7-1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-7-1-1024x673.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-7-1-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-7-1-750x493.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-7-1-1140x749.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-269404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Already in the 192Os, the son burst into Havana with definitive success and among its greatest exponents is Miguel Matamoros. Let\u2019s examine what the noted researcher and saxophonist Leonardo Acosta said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBut the son is transformed in the capital, where the sextet and then septet format prevails. The Sexteto Habanero, the Sexteto Occidente led by Mar\u00eda Teresa Vera, the Sexteto Nacional (later Septeto) led by Ignacio Pi\u00f1eiro and others that also appear all over the island did not take long to stand out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In all these years, figures of great impact in music appeared on the scene, such as Pi\u00f1eiro, who, according to Leonardo Acosta himself, was the first to achieve a rapprochement between the two basic popular genres of Cuban popular sound: the rumba is from the western region and the son from the eastern region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPi\u00f1eiro becomes, therefore, if not the father, then the grandfather of salsa, because of this synthesis and fusion and not because he coined the term in his famous <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00c9chale salsita<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d he asserts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From then on, Cuba became a sonera from one end to the other. Different musicians, interpreters and groups emerged, that throughout the 20th century and so far in the 21st have made the son their own, uniting it with other rhythms, but always respecting its essence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The son, like very few genres, traveled and settled triumphantly in the United States, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico, demonstrating its durability. His exponents, endowed with grace when it comes to improvising, demonstrated mischief, good voice and dancing skills, became enormously popular in Latin America and Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The son also reached the movies and served as an inspiration to poets. The most vivid example is in the work of Nicol\u00e1s Guill\u00e9n and his titles \u201cS\u00f3ngoro cosongo,\u201d \u201cMotivos de son\u201d and \u201cEl son entero.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Secuestro de la Mujer de Antonio\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JEqUco8ZllY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After 1959 the son did not leave Cuba, as some exclaimed. After the migratory wave, the island continued dancing and contributing new son musicians that achieved worldwide recognition. The founding of the groups Son 14, in 1978, and Adalberto \u00c1lvarez y su Son, in 1984, demonstrate how alive the genre remained among musicians and dancers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For an in-depth study of this topic, <\/span><b>OnCuba<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> suggests the titles: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La Habana tiene su son\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">y\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El son no se fue de Cuba: claves para una historia 1959-1973<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, by authors Ricardo R. Oropesa and Adriana Orejuela, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_269405\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-269405\" style=\"width: 1400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-4-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-269405\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-4-1.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-4-1-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-4-1-1024x714.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-4-1-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-4-1-750x523.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-4-1-1140x795.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-269405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>The son is a reflection<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mayel\u00edn Naranjo is a Cuban performer living in Spain with her husband, the musician Jorge Antonio V\u00e1zquez Varona. In each concert, they offer in that country and other European countries, classic son songs cannot be missing from their repertoire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn our musical work, its strength arises naturally,\u201d she affirms and adds: \u201cThe son is alive, its flavor continues to captivate the whole world, however, even if it does not lose its validity, it must be carefully observed that other musical styles, especially those related to electronic music, currently make a large part of the international market cheaper. It is a sacred duty that we defend the life of the Cuban son. Let\u2019s work for it, let\u2019s bring modernity to it, creating new son works with respect for our tradition, our cultural roots.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, radio broadcaster and researcher L\u00e1zaro Caballero Aranzola, author of the book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a1De pel\u00edcula! Rolando Laserie,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tells us:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe son is a reflection of the cultural mix of the Cuban nation that treasures the African and Spanish imprint. And there is where another of the repeated affirmations linked to the genre flourishes: to be a good son musician you have to be a good rumbero, another sign that our musical richness is comprehensive and multidirectional. Some tenement house rumba enriched with Spanish elements of the ballroom, wind instruments and a catchy cadence, all of which has made several generations vibrate. However, it is at this point that I would like to underline that I currently perceive insufficient support for the dissemination of son through radio and television. It is essential to promote the roots of such a valuable jewel of our culture, an expression of what is most genuine that distinguishes us. The son is a sample of how we are and, after all, it is the most sublime thing for the soul to have fun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_269406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-269406\" style=\"width: 1400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-11-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-269406\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-11-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-11-1.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-11-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-11-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-11-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-11-1-750x499.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trova-11-1-1140x759.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-269406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To celebrate this day <\/span><b>OnCuba<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> recommends the following playlist, with eight of the golden songs of the Cuban son that you cannot miss:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suavecito by the National Septet of Ignacio Pi\u00f1eiro.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Escucha mi son\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Miguelito Vald\u00e9s.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mi son cubano\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Guillermo Portabales.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Son al son\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Elena Burke.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El son de la madrugada\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Son 14.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El son de Adalberto\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Oscar D\u2019Le\u00f3n.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sin clave no hay son\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Celia Cruz.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Te traigo mi son\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Ray Barreto.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Day of the Cuban Son is celebrated on May 8 as a tribute to a vocal and instrumental genre of great popularity and influence on and off the island. 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