
Havana, Dec 20 (Prensa Latina) Music and dance are indivisible parts of Cuban tourism when today a project of old interpreters facilitates the pleasure of many foreign visitors, especially Europeans, a group baptized as Legendarios del guajirito.
This unusual name points fundamentally to the best of the pieces of the Cuban tradition and completes the style of the well-known Buena Vista Social Club, where songs, rumba, bolero and other genres are complemented by the exchange with the audience.
The most recent presentation this week of the group took place in the Salón Rojo of Capri Hotel, an establishment with a lot of history and memories of good artistic performances, which corroborates the strategy of the Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR) of a solid link of the trips with culture and industry.
The Legendarios consist of great musicians and singers who have 14 nominations and eight Grammy Awards, as members of the Buena Vista Social Club, Afro-Cuban All Stars and the Aragón Orchestra (www.legendariosdelguajirito.com).
Figures that reigned at the time in the famous Cuban cabarets Tropicana and Parisién, and that most recently won two Congo de Oro awards in Barranquilla, one Campana de Oro Award in Cali, Colombia, and two Distinctions for the National Culture of Cuba.
It is composed of: Felix Baloy, Carlos Puisseaux, Ernesto Bacallao, Alfred Thompson, Alberto Virgilio, Maida Mitchell, Xiomara Valdés, Hilda de la Hoz, Luis Barzaga, Benitico Llanes (with more than 80 years), Javier Zalva, Alden Knight (well known actor), Lázaro Villa, Teté Caturla, and Luis Valiente (Betún).
