CD: Candido Fabre: Cubano Soy

Style: Son/Charanga | Publisher: Tumi | Code: | Year: 2006

Candido Fabre is one of Cuba's leading musicians and is considered one of the most versatile and ingenious soneros of Latin America. His improvisations have helped to build his reputation as an artist of great charisma and authenticity. He is also a prolific songwriter and his work has been performed in Cuba by Orquestra Aragon, Los Van Van, Manguare, Isaac Delgado, Celia Cruz and Oscar D'Leon. Candido has the phrasing and fire of a great salsa vocalist. His back up group features the flute and violin line-up of classic charanga, and the members of his group swing with elegance through some excellent arrangements in the finest tradition of charangas playing son

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Possibly the best offering yet form Candido Fabre and his band – a superb collection of bittersweet songs mostly written and arranged by Fabre himself, partly based on his feelings about not abandoning Cuba in uncertain times, unlike some of his fellow artists.

Considered one of the most creative soneros (singers of Cuban son) in Latin America with his special talent for improvisation, Fabre has also been a prolific songwriter since he started performing with the great Orquesta Original de Manzanillo in the 1970s, making the typical dance band sound of Oriente (the Eastern province of Cuba). The band here is a classic Oriente ‘charanga’ line up with flute and violin as well as a soaring trumpet, piano, bass, tres guitar and full percussion; and creates a perfect smooth and swinging ground for Fabre’s distinctive passionate, gravel voice. Dance to it and be transported to the music houses of Santiago, where the whole album was recorded.