El Carretero

About El Carretero

"El Carretero" is a guajira (country lament) sung by Eliades Ochoa with the full ensemble providing additional instruments and backing vocals. Composer: Guillermo Portabales (Rodas, Cuba, 6 April 1911 – San Juan, Puerto Rico, 25 October 1970) was a Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist who popularized the guajira style of Cuban music from the 1930s through the 1960s. His languid, melancholy, intensely lyrical guajiras and his elegant, stylish singing made him popular throughout Latin America, where he is still revered. .

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About this song

Credited to

Buena Vista Social Club

Album

Buena Vista Social Club · Track 8 of 14

Released

June 23, 1997

Duration

3:30

Ranking

#5 most played Buena Vista Social Club track on Foxsoundi

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299,369 listeners on Last.fm

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From the album: Buena Vista Social Club