BAYAMESA, LA
Created on 08/09/2003Latest update on 01/11/2023
Artist: Luis Carlos Varona
Author: Sindo Garay
Label: Columbia
Year: 1927
Cuban patriotic song and their national anthem, about a woman from Bayamo, the first city to be liberated following the 1868 resurgence. She choose to burn down her own house instead of leaving it to the Spanish. Sindo Garay (1867-1968) first performed it in the Teatro de Bayamo.
Covers:
- 1930:
Sindo Garay [author in France]
- 1940s:
- 1940s:
- 1992:
- 1997:
Buena Vista Social Club [with Ry Cooder; vocal: Puntillita Licea, who used to sing it with the original orchestra]
Not to be confused with the 1848 love poem La Bayamesa, written by Francisco Castillo, José Fornaris and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes. The latter is regarded as one of Cuba's founding fathers.
