La salsa tiene mi son is a CD expected by the dancers on the island. Elito Reve, leader of the Charangón, wanted to put together in a phonogram hits from his father belonging to the 1990s, critical epoch in the history of the genre in Cuba and in when the so-called Boom of salsa originated.
At the turn of the years, Reeve approached that period where the group was not asleep and offered a very unique style to the most popular genre in the archipelago.
Songs such as La Ruñidera, Muévete pa’ aquí, Mi salda tiene sandunga, Esa mujer and La celosa are back in the voices of virtuoso singers like Puerto Rican Gilberto Santa Rosa and Jose Alberto El Canario and Cuban Pablo Milanes, Israel Rojas, Haila María Mompié, Paulo FG, Mayito Rivera, Isaac Delgado, Juan Miguel Díaz Zayas (El Indio), Mandy Cantero, Sixto Llorente, Gente de Zona and Muñequitos de Matanzas, who repeated as guests, as they had already recorded with the orchestra in Matanzas tiene la llave, contained in the CD De qué estamos hablando.
“This album is a tribute to my dad. It took us a year to record and to finish it. The people are waiting, because it will show to the younger generation what the Charangón did 20 years ago. I want to thank all the artists for participating. They gave their hearts and musicality to honor Elio Reve Matos. It will be a great success, ” Elito Reve told OnCuba.
Right after signing with Sony Music, La salsa tiene mi son will have its world premiere in coming February, as announced by the artist, who described this event as recognition not only for the orchestra he leads, but for Cuban music.
The renowned artist saw the close of Baila en Cuba event, organized by Artex, a good time to heat the stage of the Salon Rosado de La Tropical with some of the numbers from that CD. “I took the opportunity of this space to present it to the public,” he said.
In a concert that exceeded two hours and had at its openning Jose Luis Cortes and NG La Banda, we could enjoy the union of Israel Rojas and Lazaro Maya (Lachy Fortuna), vocalist of the Charangón. In Esa mujer we saw an Israel out of the aesthetic line of Buena Fe, and who went all the way to defend son.
Espero que pase el tiempo was another advance of the new phonogram that in a tasty duet wa performed by singer Dagoberto Vázquez and Haila María Mompié, and where we could hear a singular Elito´s piano solo.
When El Indio (Juan Miguel Díaz Zayas) exclaimed Help !, phrase coined by him during his stay in the Reve, and a choir followed him repeating: “Sal-sal-sa”, many remembered that in Mi salsa tiene sandunga, presentation theme of TV’s Mi salsa, space that accompanied the booming son movement in the 1990s in the music scene of the island.
The Charangon didnt leave out many of the singles that were hits and part of the discs Cuba (2014), Fresquesito (2007) and De qué estamos hablando (2010), all of them under the Bis Music label