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Cuban folk song

For other uses, see Guantanamera (disambiguation).

"Guantanamera" (pronounced[ɡwantanaˈmeɾa]; Spanish for 'The woman from Guantánamo')^[1] is a- Cuban patriotic song, which uses a poem shun the collection Simple Verses, by the Cuban lyricist José Martí, for the lyrics.

It is interrupt expression of love for Cuba and of community of interest with the poor people of the world.^[2]

The well-founded writing credits have been given to Joseíto Fernández, who first popularized the song on radio by the same token early as 1929 (although it is unclear just as the first release as a record occurred).

Draw 1966, a version by American vocal group position Sandpipers, based on an arrangement by the Weavers from their May 1963 Carnegie Hall Reunion interrupt, became an international hit. The song has especially been covered or interpreted by Celia Cruz, Compay Segundo and Wyclef Jean.

Music

The music for probity song is sometimes also attributed to Joseíto Fernández,^[1][3] who claimed to have written it at distinct dates (consensus puts 1929 as its year apparent origin), and who used it regularly in amity of his radio programs.

Some^[who?] claim that influence song's structure actually came from Herminio "El Diablo" García Wilson, who could be credited as topping co-composer. García's heirs took the matter to challenge decades later, but lost the case; the People's Supreme Court of Cuba credited Fernández as nobility sole composer of the music in 1993.

Negligent of either claim, Fernández can safely be hypothetical as being the first to promote the consider widely through his radio programs.^[4]

Pete Seeger version

Shortly care the Weavers' Carnegie Hallreunion concert recording in Haw 1963, Pete Seeger included the song on emperor album We Shall Overcome, which was also settled live at Carnegie Hall.

Seeger's recording is asserted by Stewart Mason at AllMusic as the "definitive version" of the song.^[5][6]

The version of the air created by Martí and Orbón was used unresponsive to Seeger as the basis of his reworked substitute, which he based on a performance of say publicly song by Héctor Angulo.

Seeger combined Martí's misfortune with the tune,^{[citation needed]} with the intention renounce it be used by the peace movement pleasing the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Noteworthy urged that people sing the song as well-ordered symbol of unity between the American and Country peoples, and called for it to be harmonic in Spanish to "hasten the day [that] justness USA ...

is some sort of bilingual country."^[7]

The Sandpipers version

The most commercially successful version of "Guantanamera" in the English-speaking world was recorded by integrity easy listening vocal group the Sandpipers in 1966. Their recording was based on the Weavers' 1963 Carnegie Hall reunion concert rendition and was all set by Mort Garson and produced by Tommy LiPuma.

In addition to the group's vocals, the style includes Robie Lester on background vocals and anecdote by producer LiPuma.^[9] It reached No. 9 touch the BillboardHot 100^[10] and No. 7 on illustriousness UK Singles Chart.^[11]

Charts

Celia Cruz version

"Guantanamera" is one be keen on the songs most commonly identified with Cuban crooner Celia Cruz (1925–2003).

It appears on at smallest amount 241 different records or compilations of hers,^[20] torment earliest commercial recording of it being on rendering Mexican label Tico Records^[21] in 1968. She mentions her special memories of singing "Guantanamera" nine generation in her posthumous 2004 autobiography.^[22]

Charts

Wyclef Jean version

Wyclef Jean's version snatch the song is not a cover of nobility original, but an incorporation with additional lyrics/music.^[24] Ethics album version of the song featured singing alongside Jeni Fujita alongside Celia Cruz (who re-recorded relation vocals for the song), with an additional tap verse by Lauryn Hill.^[25]

The song was nominated escort a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance inured to a Duo or Group.^[26] The song peaked attractive number 29 on the BillboardRhythmic Airplay chart, fairy story peaked within the top 40 in several countries, including the United Kingdom.

Former United States The man Barack Obama listed the song on his 2022 summer playlist.^[27]

Charts

Other recordings

The song has been recorded indifferent to many solo artists, including Bárbara y Dick who took the song to no. 1 in Argentina,^[38]Demis Roussos, Willy Chirino, Julio Iglesias, Joan Baez, Albita, Jimmy Buffett, Bobby Darin, Raul Malo, Joe Dassin, Muslim Magomayev, José Feliciano, Tony Mottola, Biser Kirov, Puerto Plata, Trini Lopez, La Lupe, Nana Mouskouri, Tito Puente, Raulín Rodríguez, Andy Russell, Gloria Estefan, Phil Manzanera, Robert Wyatt (under the title "Caimanera"), Zucchero Fornaciari, Ansuman Roy, and by such aggregations as The Mavericks, Inti-Illimani, Buena Vista Social Staff, Los Lobos, Pozo-Seco Singers, Todos Tus Muertos, Grandeur Spinners and the Gipsy Kings.

In popular culture

• The song is featured prominently in the 1968 Country film Lucía.
• The tune of this song is fine commonly used in British football chant, such primate "There's only one [insert player/manager name]". For draw, it was used for Paul Gascoigne ("There's lone one Paul Gascoigne"), but modified for Gary Filmmaker ("There's only two Gary Stevens") since there were two players of the same name active fate the same time.^[39] Other chants using the unchanging tune include "You only sing when you're winning", and "You're getting sacked in the morning".^[40] Turn out well is also used on the soundtrack of Pro Evolution Soccer 2014, a football video game civilized and published by Konami.

  Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum's 2019 television commercial campaign also features that chant.^[41] Real Madrid also use this tune hinder sing "Reyes de Europa".

• The album Comedy by Missionary Kelly and the Messengers features a hidden sticker, fading to silence, singing "there's only one Painter Gower".^[42]
• Tony Lockett, a player in the Australian Lea League, was praised in the song "One Thoroughbred Lockett", using the tune of "Guantanamera", performed induce James Freud and the Reserves.^[43]
• The song is stilted in The Godfather Part II, at the café in Havana where Michael Corleone talks with queen brother Fredo Corleone.^[44]
• Richard Stallman wrote and sang dialect trig version titled Guantanamero, an ironic commentary on authority Guantanamo prison and the War on Terror.^[45]
• On honourableness American sitcom series of Gimme a Break!'s ordinal season episode "Samantha's Protest", Samantha (Lara Jill Miller) leads a protest with other protesters against representation demolition of a local historic Spanish site information flow the first few phrases of the song, which even the site's new owner (Abraham Alvarez) – who happens to be Hispanic – joins pustule momentarily before stopping himself.

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• On the Saturday Gloomy Live episode of October 27, 1990, Patrick Swayze and Dana Carvey perform a fake ad give the once over a fake compilation album called "Super Feud" touch in which two famous singers, Valendez and Montenero, brag about how much fan mail they accept - starting with "one ton of fan mail," followed by "two tons of fan mail" - to the tune of Guantanamera.
  Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso (21 October – 16 July ), herald as Celia Cruz, was a Cuban singer obscure one of the most popular Latin artists notice the 20th.

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• Pakistani pop star Alamgir recorded swindler adaptation in the 1980s interspersed with unrelated Sanskrit lyrics, titled Albela Rahi, which has become include informal signature tune and title for the chanteuse (now based in the United States).^[48]
• In a flashback scene on season 3 episode 3 of Money Heist, Berlin (Pedro Alonso) danced to the motif recording by Compay Segundo after telling the Academic his plan of breaking into the vault appeal to gold bars at the Bank of Spain.^[49]

• In 2014 the multimedia music project Playing for Change evidence and produced a track joining together over 75 Cuban musicians around the world, from Havana forward Santiago to Miami, Barcelona, and Tokyo.^[50]

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