There are four famous songs in Cuba that bear the title: La Bayamesa.
Two of them are better known to the majority: that of Sindo Garay (Santiago de Cuba, April 12, 1867 - July 17, 1968) Mujer Bayamesa, and this one of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Francisco Castillo and José Fornaris y Luque, La Bayamesa.
Some forget that there are two others that also bear this title: that of Perucho Figueredo, the Cuban national anthem and a fourth anonymous song that the mambises sang in the insurgent camps.
La Bayamesa is one of the first romantic Cuban troubadour songs in Cuban musical history.
This is the tribute to the celebration of the National Culture Day, this October 20, thus highlighted in commemoration of the victory of the Mambises in the city of Bayamo, at the very beginning of our wars of independence against Spain, in 1868.
Comments