The Havana Salón Rosado de La Tropical will celebrate a party on June 15th by the hand of the Septeto Habanero in its 103 years of foundation.
The group, whose birthday is June 13, will offer a great concert in the space today like yesterday of the aforementioned hall, according to the magazine the jiribilla.
June 13 marks the 103rd Anniversary of the Habanero Septet.
To celebrate this date, on Thursday June 15 in the Hoy como Ayer space of the Salón Rosado de la Tropical, there will be a great concert of soneros
A festival of Son that you should not miss#Music #CubaIsCulture pic.twitter.com/ooujrtwy6L— LaJiribilla (@LaJiribilla) June 12, 2023
The Septeto Habanero, originally formed as a Sextet, was created at the beginning of the 20th century.
Musicians such as Félix Chapottin, Guillermo Castillo Bustamante and Guillermo Castillo García, Manolo Furé Zerquera and Germán Pérez Ibáñez passed through it.
Likewise, it had the talent of Abelardo Barroso, Vicentico Valdés, Pío Leyva, Pachito Riset, Cheo Marquetti, Arsenio Rodríguez and Chocolate Armenteros.
The Septeto Habanero was the first ensemble of its kind to perform works by Ernesto Lecuona, pieces that he composed expressly for the group.
He has been nominated several times for the Latin Grammy Award for Best Tropical Album. In 2010 they received a Latin Grammy Award nomination in the Traditional Tropical Music category for their double album 90 years, Pride of the soneros, which includes some of his classics such as Papa Montero, To the Hill of Belen and dawn.
Last April, the group lost to one of its members, the musician Digno Marcelino Pérez, who was a singer for three decades. He was 86 years old when he died, and since 1993 he has been doing second voice and keys.
