Guantanamera song joseito fernandez biography
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Guantanamera
"Guantanamera" ("girl from Guantánamo") is perhaps the best known Cuban song and that country's most noted patriotic song.
History
Music
The music for the song is regularly attributed to José Fernández Diaz, known as Joseíto Fernández[1], who claimed to have written it at various dates (consensus puts 1929 as its year of origin), and who used it regularly in one of his radio programs.
Guantanamera song joseito fernandez biography
Some American researchers[who?] claim that the song's structure actually came from Herminio "El Diablo" García Wilson, who should be credited as a co-composer. García's heirs took the matter to court decades later but lost the case: the Supreme Court of Cuba credited Fernández as the sole composer of the music in 1993.
Regardless of either claim, Fernández can safely be claimed as being the first public promoter of the song, through his radio programs.[2]
Lyrics
Original lyrics
As written by José