Valentín Cané Pablo Vázquez Gobín "Bubú" Manuel Sánchez "Jimagua" Ismael Goberna Domingo Medina José Manuel Valera Juan Bautista Llopis Julio Gobín Humberto Cané Carlos Manuel Díaz Alonso "Caíto" Rogelio Martínez Díaz José Rosario Chávez "Manteca" Calixto Leicea Pérez Prado Bienvenido Granda Ezequiel Frías Gómez "Lino" Ángel Alfonso Furias "Yiyo"
Past members
Bienvenido León Daniel Santos Myrta Silva Celia Cruz Pedro Knight Miguelito Valdés Leo Marini Bobby Capó Nelson Pinedo Vicentico Valdés Estanislao Sureda "Laíto" Roberto Torres Alberto Beltrán Carlos Argentino Celio González Elpidio Vázquez Carmen Delia Dipiní Javier Vázquez Willy Rodríguez "El Baby" Alfredo Armenteros "Chocolate" Ismael Miranda Justo Betancourt Linda Leida Gabriel Eladio Peguero "Yayo El Indio" Welfo Gutiérrez Olga Chorens Gloria Díaz Tony Álvarez Chito Galindo Toña la Negra Elliot Romero Emilio Domínguez "El Jarocho" Gladys Julio Hermanas Lago Israel del Pino Johnny López Jorge Maldonado Kary Infante Manuel Licea "Puntillita" Martha Jean Claude Máximo Barrientos Miguel de Gonzalo Pepe Reyes Raúl del Castillo Reinaldo Hierrezuelo "Rey Caney" Rodolfo Hoyos Tony Díaz Victor Piñero Vicky Jiménez Alfredo Valdés Roberto Torres
Website
sonoramatancera.com
La Sonora Matancera is a Cuban band that played Latin American urban popular dance music. Founded in 1924 and led for more than five decades by guitarist, vocalist, composer, and producer Rogelio Martínez, musicologists consider it an icon of this type of music. Notable singers to have sung and recorded with the band include Bienvenido Granda,[1][2][3] Daniel Santos, Myrta Silva, Miguelito Valdés, Leo Marini, Celia Cruz,[4] Nelson Pinedo, Vicentico Valdés, Estanislao "Laíto" Sureda, Alberto Beltrán, Carlos Argentino, and Celio González.
^FIU Libraries. Florida International University/The Díaz Ayala Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music, Sección 04 M. Chronology of personnel changes and recordings based on the two-volume book Historia de la Sonora Matancera by Dr. Héctor Ramírez Bedoya. Discography compiled with the assistance of Ramírez Bedoya, Carlos Deiby Velásquez, Humberto Corredor, and Osvaldo Oganes. Data assembled by Dr. Cristóbal Díaz Ayala.
^Waxer, Lise A. (2010). The City of Musical Memory: Salsa, Record Grooves and Popular Culture in Cali, Colombia. Wesleyan UP. pp. 64ff. ISBN 9780819570567.
La SonoraMatancera is a Cuban band that played Latin American urban popular dance music. Founded in 1924 and led for more than five decades by guitarist...
Cuba, earning recognition as a vocalist of the popular musical group SonoraMatancera, a musical association that lasted 15 years (1950–1965). Cruz mastered...
years of history. Modeled after an earlier Cuban band called Sonora Matancera, the Sonora Santanera was founded in 1955 by Carlos Colorado in the state of...
was best known for having been the lead singer of the Cuban ensemble SonoraMatancera in the 1940s and 50s. For sporting a prodigious mustache, he was nicknamed...
became a hit for Daniel Santos in 1948, due to his recording with La SonoraMatancera with an arrangement by Pérez Prado. Years later the composition would...
number of solo albums, he has played with the Fania All Stars and SonoraMatancera, as well as performing with musicians and singers such as Celia Cruz...
soneado and bolero-son. The term sonora refers to conjuntos with smoother trumpet sections such as SonoraMatancera and Sonora Ponceña. Although the history...
At age 23, he joined the Havana-based, Afro-Cuban conjunto band, La SonoraMatancera ("the sound of Matanzas", a port with a large black population), that...
Barranquilla, Colombia. In 1954, Pinedo began a five-year career with the SonoraMatancera, a Cuban ensemble, which at the time had widespread fame in Latin America...
number of hits including "El Alacrán" a cover originally sung by La SonoraMatancera. Signed to Fonovisa a year earlier, Banda Maguey took over their native...
With (Willie Colón) Doble Energía (Fania Records) 1980 With (SonoraMatancera) La Sonora y el Niño (Fania Records) 1984 With His Orchestra Así Se Compone...
pa'Cataca" (originally from José María Peñaranda, then interpreted by La SonoraMatancera.) The two types of folkloric porro are porro palitiao and porro tapao...
master of the instrument, performing with the Lecuona Cuban Boys, SonoraMatancera, Conjunto Matamoros and Arsenio Rodríguez's "Conjunto Segundo" among...
were covers of previously recorded tunes by such Cuban artists as SonoraMatancera, Chappottín y Sus Estrellas and Conjunto Estrellas de Chocolate. Pacheco...
She rose to fame in 1949 as the lead vocalist for the Cuban ensemble SonoraMatancera. Myrta Blanca Silva Oliveros was born in the city of Arecibo, Puerto...
1908 Héctor Lombard - Mixed martial artist, born in Matanzas in 1978 SonoraMatancera - is a Cuban/Afro-Cuban band Joseph Marion Hernández (1788 – 1857)...
Mambo" – The Enchanters (1957) "Fiesta De Navidad" – Celia Cruz Y La SonoraMatancera (1961) "Merry Christmas Darling" – Hop Wilson & His Buddies (1960)...
Su Orquesta, Gitta Ravena und Die Rondos, Carlos Argentino Con La SonoraMatancera, Los Machucambos, Malka and Joso, Marimba Chiapas, Los Españoles, Charlie's...
portion of Celia Cruz' Plegaria a La Roye as recorded in Cuba with La SonoraMatancera in 1954.[citation needed] The "James Bond Theme" was recorded on 21...
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