Celina González Zamora ( * Jovellanos , March 16, 1929 ) , born in the town of Nueva Luisa , in the province of Matanzas , Havana. Son of farmers , when Celina was a child , his parents and siblings sang in the family soirees weekend . Angela , playing three and singing and Jesus , the lute . Celina learn melodic and rhythmic base of peasant singing , and her mother s devotion by Creole religions of Cuba , and the orishas : Oshun , Babalu Aye , Shango and Yemaya . Dominguez Reutilio Terrero ( * Guantanamo , 1921 - † 1971 ) Guitarist, songwriter and singer. Reutilio highlighted singing in a radio station in Guantanamo. first Steps During his childhood , his family moved to Santiago de Cuba . Thanks to radio and his penchant for the sound began to improvise punto cubano odd tenth and quatrain , by 1943 known who will be the love of his life , Reutilio . The Punto Cubano The duo is known in Santiago de Cuba . Finally , in 1947 made his debut in a radio station , the CMKR . Another popular musician from Santiago , already established in the domestic environment , Antonio Fernández , better known as Nico Saquito , author of sounds like Maria Cristina , Adios Compay Gato , Jaleo , Do not let the road path and prototype of the protest song When swinging from my Carreta leads to Havana in 1948 to appear on a regional station , Radio Cadena Suaritos . This radio station had become fashionable more purely African music of the country , presenting the weekend hits and songs of the Santeria religion with vocalists such as Celia Cruz, Mercedes Valdés and Gina Martin. For his debut habanero , Celina and Reutilio up a number that becomes duo logo : A Santa Barbara , also known as Viva Chango . The success of this Guaracha was immediate and emphatic . With this composition Reutilio Celina and break with old separation that existed between music and Afro Guajira , establish a new fusion where the metric , that is, the tenth Hispanic and Punto Guajiro style , are maintained, but the lyrics are addresses issues of cultural heritage of the black continent . The public reception is due not only to the novelty of the tune but perhaps several other reasons . The duo combined the crackling voice of Celina, as it has been called , with the sound produced by Reutilio , which seemed to come from not one but two or more guitars . It is worth delving a little on the latter . In duets and trios traditional Cuban son montuno point generally used two guitars, or a guitar and another string instrument . A musician played the raw guitar , that is, the treble , as in the case of Miguel Matamoros in his trio , while a second guitarist bordoneaba , ie marking the bass , as did Rafael Cueto his famous tumbaos in the Trio Matamoros. Dominguez Reutilio met a developed technique and fingers , wrist and forearm that allowed supremely flexible premium and bordonear playing at the same time so that the duo Reutilio Celina and sounded like a trio . Radio and Television In his first appearances on Radio Cadena Suaritos also counted with the support of a famous bongo player , Marcelo González , nicknamed El Blanco . The neighborhood Natural Sites in Havana , Marcelo The White had acquired a reputation as a virtuoso percussionist fair , first with all of the above Macucho sonero neighborhood, and later , as the plant bongo Orchestra Julio Cueva . When Marcelo sounded the bongos behind Reutilio guitar and voice of Celina, the radio audience thought that it was a complete set with five or six members. The success of Celina and Reutilio on Radio Cadena Suaritos soon makes them a contract with a national broadcaster , the RHC Cadena Azul , which move immediately , starting also to record crowd favorite numbers . The first recording Reutilio Celina and was A Santa Barbara , which had the piano the composer and arranger Obdulio Morales and another distinguished bongo percussionist known as Santa Gofio habanero . Soon Reutilio Celina and became national favorites . The formula of combining quatrains tenths typical peasant -themed sing the deities of the pantheon of Yoruba and Congo African past had great response from the public , and the duo began producing a series of similar numbers as The Queen of sea , the son of Eleggua , A Copper charity and others. Also recorded a lot of music Guajira and son montuno of other authors , such as Black Tears , I had tied up with P - composed by Nico Saquito - , The fourth of Tula and many more . The next chapter is to travel abroad . Celina and Reutilio visit New York, where he presented at the Teatro Puerto Rico , in the fifties , accompanied by Beny Moré , then travel to Dominican Republic , where his music was known from that conveyed by CMKR in Santiago de Cuba , in 1947 ; and returning to New York with singer Barbarito Diez danzons . In Cuba Celina prestige and Reutilio increases and appear in two feature-length films , Rincon Criollo and Bella the Wild . They sing in radio programs dedicated to music Guajira in various radio stations and appear on television ; performances stand out in the great cabarets of the capital, including the legendary Tropicana ; recorded in l956 , backed by one of the most sought orchestras moment sensation Orchestra ; rub shoulders with all the other singers peasant point of the island as Ramon Veloz, Coralia Fernandez Naborí Injun , Raul and Radeunda Lima, and are sought after by advertisers to record a variety of jingles for radio . The Celina and Reutilio tunes begin to circulate in countries of the Caribbean basin , in particular , Colombia , Venezuela and Dominican Republic . One of their numbers , recorded in an era when music was Guajira signs of weakness in their popularity, the point I am Cuban , develop together with , A Santa Barbara in another legendary success of Celina and Reutilio , which runs several countries Latin America. Collaboration Reutilio Celina and lasted until their separation in 1964 . Reutilio died in 1971. Between 1964 and 1980 Celina Gonzalez continued his solo career . From 1980 a new phase in the career of Celina . His son Lazarus Reutilio finished his formal music classes and mother and son decide to launch a new version of Celina and Reutilio . Drawing on the musical cast country music program Palmas y Cañas , the new Celina and Reutilio no longer a duo but a modern set of Guajira and son montuno music with Celina and her son Reutilio as stellar voices . last Years In 1984 the duo revamped Reutilio Celina and travels to Bogota and Cali Fair , which debuts at the Pascual Guerrero stadium , and since then , year after year have acted in the main cities of Colombia : Cali , Palmira , Bogota , Popayan , Pereira , Manizales , Cartagena , Barranquilla , Monteria . They have sung on television and radio on numerous occasions , presenting his repertoire as well as Matamoros , Sachet , Carlos Puebla , José Pinewoods -author of Oldie cañandonga - the Guayabero and Los Compadres . Celina and Reutilio succeed in Europe , where they have achieved success in the UK , where it is known as Queen of Cuban Country Music in Sweden, France and Greece . Celina has dabbled in the songs of the Nueva Trova , particularly in the work of Silvio Rodriguez, Pigs , and has also worked with groups Manguaré and Adalberto Alvarez y su son , with whom he recorded two LPs . Celina has influenced singers a growing number of farmers within and outside Cuba . Its impact on Cuban music is widely recognized . As written by Alejandro Ulloa , Celina Guajira is to music , what Celia Cruz has been for guaracha and son .
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