With a fruitful, 30-year career under its belt, the Cobre Steel Band has won a spot in the musical tastes of Cubans
author: Eduardo Palomares Calderón
SANTIAGO DE CUBA.– With a fruitful, 30-year career under its belt, the Cobre Steel Band has won a spot in the musical tastes of Cubans, and particularly among the country’s most outstanding performers, who recognize the uniqueness of the finely tuned timbre its members extract from their instruments created from metal barrels.
The band has had many high points, including their performance of Schubert’s Ave Maria for Pope Benedict XVI on a visit to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Charity in their hometown; the mini concert offered by the professionals with the children’s group for President Miguel Díaz-Canel, during his visit to the area.
Also noteworthy are its numerous presentations at festivals, carnivals, and other popular celebrations where audiences traditionally acclaim and cheer their shows.With their performance at the Jazz Plaza festival in Havana just behind them, and after recording music for “Cuba te quiere” and “Ula ula” with Cándido Fabré at EGREM’s Siboney Studios, the band led by maestro Hermes Ramírez Silva is heating up the drums for a video with the international group Somos el mundo, at Gran Piedra; several tracks by Erik Iglesias (Cimafunk); and the Caribbean Festival, this coming July.Reflecting the tenacity that characterizes the people of Cobre, the road they have taken has not been easy.
Replies
Well YUH THINK yuh could go to dem CUBAN
And say yuh have LATIN VOICE PAN
Yuh mad oh meh LARD OHH!!!
CUBAN have more LATIN VOICE PAN
More than TRINIDAD ...
YUH SEE!!!
So why neglect yuh culture?
Yuh making me feel sad
CALYPSO and STEELBAND
Is the CULTURE OF TRINIDAD
Great find Claude.
They are indeed speaking with their own voice.