El cubano Ignacio Villa, conocido artisticamente como Bola de Nieve, canta el pregón El Manicero. En el vídeo aparecen grandes figuras de las letras como Alejo Carpentier
El Ballet Folklórico de Camagüey interpreta Omó Changó, una coreografía de Reynaldo Echemendía, perteneciente a la obra Yoruba soy, noche de estreno septiembre de 2003.
Cuando yo la conocí Los zafiros
It was a moonlit night| when I met her.| She was fairskinned, pretty, | with lips like rubies. | She was a lovely girl | who knew nothing of love. | But I knew that her heart | had never been broken.|
Joseito Fernandez, el autor de la Guantanamera, durante su última presentación en TV. Interpreta esta guajira en la versión con los versos sencillos de José Martí. Año 1979
"Sábanas Blancas" (White Sheets) Gerardo Alfonso featuring Muñequitos de Matanzas, from Cuba. This is rumba(guaguancó), essencial in the current popular Cuban music and all its variations.
"Sábanas blancas colgadas en los balcones"...
El Conjunto Artístico Maraguán, de la Universidad de Camagüey interpreta la obra Homenaje, en tributo al grupo folklórico cubiteño Caidije, de origen haitiano
My prayer has been recorded many times, its biggest hit version was a revival in 1956 by The Platters. Here Los Zafiros, from Cuba, perform a Spanish version of this popular song (Mi oración)written by Georges Boulanger and lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy.
Who were Los Zafiros? A legend in Havana; Miguel Canio, Ignacio Elejalde, Manuel Galbán, Eduardo El Chino Hernández and Leoncio Kike Morúa.
Popular Cuban music of high quality, the original Los Zafiros back in the 1960'. Here the group performes "Y sabes". Founded in 1962 became a legend in Havana.
Radio stations in the island still air this wonderful music. Inspired by the American vocal group The Platters and others doo-wop groups, Los Zafiros knew how to combine different genres to create its own style.
Sombras que solo yo veo me escoltan mis dos abuelos. "Shadows that only I see,
my two grandfathers watch over me." Luis Carbonell recites one of the poems written by Cuba's National Poet Nicolás Guillén. Guillén celebrates here his mulatto background and the mixture of races that took place in the New World, particularly in the Caribbean.