Popularity
Guajira was refined and popularized by the Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist Guillermo Portabales, whose elegant style has become known as guajira de salón. From the 1930s until his death in a traffic accident in Puerto Rico in 1970, Portabales recorded and performed salon guajira throughout North and South America to tremendous popular acclaim. Guantanamera, in the form composed and recorded by Joseito Fernández, is a guajira-son which has been covered by many singers and groups.
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