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    "Vivencias en Clave Cubana" is the debut solo album of Cuban cuatro master Kiki Valera, a member of the Familia Valera Miranda, a century-old group and one of the most important purveyors of the Son Cubano. While completely dedicated to the performance of traditional Cuban music, Valera was exposed to Pat Metheny, Wes Montgomery and Chick Corea through cassette tapes while in school and those jazz inspirations elevate the quality of his cuatro solos in subtle and beautiful ways. Joined here by childhood friend, renowned Cuban vocalist Coco Freeman, Valera and his exciting ensemble pair 12 original songs with beautiful instrumental work in ways that will make you dance, laugh, and possibly shed a tear. Cuba's traditional music has a history of constant evolution from its very beginnings. With "Vivencias en Clave Cubana," Kiki Valera continues in that spirit.

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MI SON is a tribute to the Son Cubano, crafted as the lyrics proclaim, with grace, poetry, rhythm and love.

lyrics

Mi son viene de la loma
Como dijo Matamoros
Regando su melodía
Por donde quiera que pasa

Su síncopa cadenciosa
Es el alma de la clave
Y al tambor esta ligado
Como la yuca al casabe

Mi son viste guayabera
Y vive en casa de guano
Y no se quita el sombrero
Para lucirse en el llano

Porque mi son es sabroso
No hay quien resista el llamado
De su tumbao contagioso
Acompañado del bajo

Es que mi son es el orgullo…
Y el sentimiento de los soneros
Con sus guitarras y sus tambores
Van regalándolo al mundo entero
Gracia y poesía, ritmo y amor
Que hasta el alma llena
Claro sinsonte que con su canto quita mis penas

Coro-1:
Para bailar te hace falta mi son
Para gozar con el montuno

No hay quien le quite lugar cimero
Porque es el número uno tu ves
Coro-1: (repeat)

Eh de la loma yo vengo con mi tumbao
Cadencioso pa’ guarachar

Coro-1: (repeat)

Es que hace falta sabor pa’ tocarlo
Para cantar y gozarlo también

Coro-1: (repeat)

Coro-2:
Para bailar te hace falta mi son

Viene del campo y usa sombrero

Coro-2: (repeat)

Y viste una guayabera mi son

Coro-2: (repeat)

Para bailar mi son, mi son, mi son

Coro-2: (repeat)

Eh para todo los soneros

Coro-1: (repeat)


For our listeners who don't speak Spanish, we offer this English-language guide to our lyrics. It is not a word for word translation (that never works well in any language), and you won't be able to sing along in English, but we hope that it will help you better understand our songs.

MI SON (MY SON; the Son is a type of Cuban song; the clave is the syncopated rhythm that drives it)

My Son comes from the hills* (the Sierra Maestra mountain range in the Oriente or eastern provinces of Cub)
As Matamoros once said* (one of the greatest composers of Cuban Son)
Spreading its melody
Wherever it goes

Its syncopated cadence
Is the soul of the clave
And it is linked to the drum
Like yuca to cassava bread

My Son wears a guayabera* (traditional Cuban-style shirt)
And lives in a house of guano* (thatched roof made from the fronds of the Yuraguano, a small palm endemic to Cuba)
It doesn’t need to flaunt itself
Because my Son is flavorful
There is no one who can resist the call
Of its contagious rhythm
Accompanied by the bass

Because my Son is the pride
And the sentiment of the soneros (Son musicians, singers and dancers)
With their guitars and their drums,
They are gifting grace and poetry, rhythm and love
To the whole world
Until it fills the soul,
Like a mockingbird that takes away my sorrows
With its song

Chorus:
The Son music will get you dancing
But you’ll really throw yourself into it in the montuno* (the faster, semi-improvised pinnacle of the song)

credits

from Vivencias en Clave Cubana, released October 18, 2019
Composed by Francisco J Freeman (BMI) and arranged by Kiki Valera (ASCAP)

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Kiki Valera Seattle, Washington

Kiki Valera es el hijo mayor del famoso septeto La Familia Valera Miranda, un grupo multi-generacional tradicional de Santiago de Cuba. Multi-instrumentista, compositor, arreglista, ingeniero de sonido y productor, Kiki es mejor conocido como uno de los grandes tocadores de cuatro cubano, una guitarra con 4 pares de cuerdas. ... more

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