| HABANA SON CLUB
easily wins the audience with the traditional Cuban popular music on
acoustic instruments. Through "Buena Vista Social Club"
(worldwide known film) Cuban music gained the popularity it deserves. At
the same time HABANA SON CLUB plays
music along these lines, but supported by the traditional style of Cuban
roots developed its own modern repertoire with rythms like Son, Cha Cha
Chá, Guaracha, Bolero, Rumba, Danson and Salsa.
In 1994 the six musicians that formerly played with
other internationally well known groups like Sierra Maestra, Orchester
Reve, Banda Meteoro, Rumba Habana, Carachy and the Sinfonica Habana,
joined the HABANA SON CLUB in Cuba
and have ever since played at hundreds of events on the Caribbean
Island. Following a tournee in Turkey the group toured in other European
countries, such as Austria, Italy, Switzerland and Slovenia, where it
performed on festivals (Festival Latinoamericano- Milano and Verona,
Wiesen Festival and Sunsplash Festival in Austria, Geneva City Festival)
and other events (promotion events, concerts, company presentations,
clubbings,etc.).
All of the musicians have a highly professional
background, having studied at Havanas Music University and two of them
as students of Ruben Gonzales. Their technical versatility, enthusiasm
and spontanity reveal real professionals.
Besides their own compositions HABANA SON CLUB
also plays famous songs of other Cuban musicians like Compay Segundo
(Buena Vista Social Club), Adalberto Alvarez, Juan Almeida, Solina
Carrillo, Miguel Matamuro and others.
"SON" is the root of Cuban
contemporary music and dance. Once it was used as a generic term for the
dance music that came from Cuba in the Twentees. African and Spanish
traditions were melted into what Nicolas Guillén, the famouse Cuban
poet, called "our soul". Son integrates music, lyrica
and dance, over which the Cubans define their identity. Today´s Latin
music, like the allover popular Salsa, derives from Son, the very
Cuban soul. |
