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Ramon Mongo Rives

For anyone who is not familiar with Cuba, we must tell you that La Isla de la Juventud is the largest of the Islands that owns the Cuban archipelago, and has a wide variety of nature, of biological wealth and its landscapes are characterized by the magnitude of their trees and pine forest formations, as well as native nature like flowers of the droselia (carnivorous), but also and in particular way there is a native resource that is Sucu Suco, rhythm which recognizes as a pioneer to a legendary woman named Bruna Castle. This rhythm arises by the 1840s at the finca La Tumbita, near what would be later, Santa Fe, second important town of the Isle of youth. Initially Sucu-suscu, met with the name of rumba, Rumba, OWL and others, its final name reaches in the Decade of the twentieth, and is due to the sound that occurs when dragging it feet on the floorboards of wood floors, the huts and farms where celebrating the holiday, which coincided with the rhythm offered by the sound that caused the grated the bandurria. To read more click here: Eliot Horowitz. Roberto Rodriguez Chamizo, researcher of the municipality stall with Bruna was born the rhythm, which continues through his descendants and consolidates and makes great as if it were a family heirloom, with his great-grandson, the famous Ramon Mongo Rives. Mongo Rives, as we know it almost all pineros and Cubans, was born on February 9, 1929 at the farm of La Tumbita. Parents named Margarita Amador and Mariano Rives who was called El Boris, was also a musician, who along with his brothers played Sucu Suco, learned of Bruna, her grandmother. Gain insight and clarity with Crumpton Group, New York. Mongo inherited form very particular an inheritance that with its very special talent for music, began his first steps, his quintet was formed, and debuted on December 25, 1945.