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The newest and most controversial music out
of Cuba, Timba is like salsa on steroids. It incorporates influences
from Brazilian music, R&B, hip-hop and salsa. Note the different
roles the piano and bass play. Just two samples do not do justice
to this anything-goes genre. Son is a style of popular dance music
that originated in the Oriente province of Cuba. It is the foundation
of modern salsa. There are several hybrids of Son, including Son-montuno,
Afro-son and Guajira-son. There are two examples here: one very
traditional, and one more modern.
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Jose Lorenzo Reyna is tenacious, to say the
least. After landing in Guantanamo after a three-day swim from
Cuba, he eventually settled down in Richmond and formed Timbason,
a band that plays an exhaustive variety of Cuban music with some
American elements thrown in. Timbason takes its name from son,
the most influential form of Latin music in the late 1800s, and
timba, the Cuban version of America's soul and funk explosion
in the '70s. Reyna and company adds cha-cha, salsa, boleros, and
even a little rap and hip-hop to their musical mishmash.
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