Sonora Matancera
Conjunto Sonora Matancera is a Cuban/Afro-Cuban band that played Latin American urban popular dance music. Led for more than five decades by guitarist, vocalist, and composer Rogelio MartÃnez, who was nicknamed El Gallego, musicologists consider it an icon of this type of music. The Guinness Book of World Records calls La Sonora Matancera, "...the group with the longest duration."
Read more about Sonora Matancera: Early History, Characteristic Features, Personnel Changes, Stylistic Changes, Singers and Songwriters, Recordings, The Golden Age, Leaving Cuba, Later History, Assessment: A Critique and Its Rebuttal, Assessment: Influence and Importance, Discography: A Representative Sampling