{"id":448,"date":"2015-05-22T10:41:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T10:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salsalust.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/?p=448"},"modified":"2018-06-29T10:08:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T10:08:45","slug":"22-05-15-septeto-nacional-de-ignacio-pineiro-suavecito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"22.05.15 : Septeto Nacional De Ignacio Pineiro &#8211; Suavecito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good day dear readers!<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;m glad to present you a true classic of the genre, the foundation of all salsa as it is!<br \/>\nAs you most probably know, salsa comes from a genre of traditional Cuban music called Son (Timba, although it can also be based on other authentic Cuban musical genres such as Guaguanco, is also often based on Son).<br \/>\nThe song I present today, Suavecito, is a true classic of the genre.<\/p>\n<p>The artist interpreting this fine composition is the Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Pineiro, one of Cuba&#8217;s oldest and most important musical ensembles.<br \/>\nThe group was founded in on Decembre 13th, 1927, in La Habana, by bassist and musical director Ignacio Pineiro, with vocalists, clave, tres, bongos and maracas.<br \/>\nLater a trumpet was also added.<\/p>\n<p>The band played at the world exhibition in Sevilla, Spain, in 1929, and at the &#8220;century of progress&#8221; exposition in Chicago, USA, in 1933.<br \/>\nDuring 1930-1933 the group also participated in several popular radio shows.<br \/>\nIn 1934 Pineiro left to pursue other interest, but returned in 1954, when the group was invited to participate in the TV program &#8220;musica de ayer y hoy&#8221;, which helped bringing it back to the public&#8217;s mind.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/IIdd7p8oQ4k\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the Revolution the band returned to its former glory; Since 1962 the group has continued participating in the Festival Nacional de Musica Popular, \u00a0Festival de Musica Popular in Sancti Spiritus and later in Santiago de Cuba.<br \/>\nA festival in honour of the group, Festival del Son Ignacio Pineiro takes place in Manzanillo.<br \/>\nThe group is active today, and has won a Grammy in 2004 for the album Poetas del Son.<\/p>\n<p>So, I wish you all to have a muy Suavecito weekend with lots of wonderful Cuban music &amp; dancing!<\/p>\n<p>Disfruten!<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6onpRVQhamw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good day dear readers! Today I&#8217;m glad to present you a true classic of the genre, the foundation of all salsa as it is! As you most probably know, salsa comes from a genre of traditional Cuban music called Son (Timba, although it can also be based on other authentic Cuban musical genres such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salsayo.com\/blogs\/cuban_music_che\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}