Nicolas Guillen

The first versions of the song "Songoro Cosongo", and the one made popular by Hector Lavoe, evolved from a literary revolution as we saw in Part 1. Here's the rest of the story. First Versions of "Songoro Cosongo" Nicolas Guillen liked…

The "Songoro Cosongo" song made popular by Hector Lavoe, had its origin in the literary revolution against the racism rampant in the Caribbean during the first decades of the 20th century. It turns out that in 1930, a Cuban poet and…