Name: De Que Te Quejas?
Brand: Real Rhythm
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De Que Te Quejas?

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Album: De Que Te Quejas?
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Todo El Mundo
2)	Aquilino
3)	Psiquiatria
4)	Mi Ayer
5)	De Que Te Quejas
6)	Manisero, El
7)	Si La Vida Se Te Da
8)	Potpourri De Cha-Cha-Cha
9)	Capital, La
10)	Todo El Mundo
11)	Patro Y la Pata, El

Performer Notes

Personnel: Edgar Pantoja Aleman (trumpet); Niurka Pedro Zuznabar (keyboards).
Audio Mixer: Tony Carreras.
Recording information: S.Cristobal De La Habana, Havana, Cuba (02/1997).
Arranger: Lunar.
It's hard to imagine Latin pop, Brazilian samba, or Mexican mariachi without female vocalists. But in Afro-Cuban salsa, female artists have been a minority. Though salsa has had some well-known female vocalists over the years -- Celia Cruz, Merceditas Vald‚s, Celeste Mendoza, Maria Teresa Vera, and Elena Burke immediately come to mind -- the vast majority of well-known salseros have been male. So it comes as a surprise to learn that Las Cecilias de Cuba is an all-female Cuban salsa band. Thankfully, the ten-member outfit isn't some well-intentioned but empty exercise in political correctness -- this is an excellent CD, and a fresh-sounding one at that. Recorded in Havana in 1997, ¨De Que Te Quejas? is melodic but swinging salsa that contains elements of Latin pop, jazz, and (on a few tunes) rap. Tracks like "Psiquiatria," "La Capital" (an ode to Havana), and "Si la Vida Se Te Da" are probably too pop influenced for Afro-Cuban purists -- Las Cecilias aren't trying to sound like a female version of La Sonora Matancera, circa 1950. But at the same time, ¨De Que Te Quejas? is edgier and more swinging than a lot of the slick salsa romantica that was huge in the 1980s and 1990s. This CD is recommended to anyone seeking something fresh-sounding and chance-taking from Afro-Cuban salsa. ~ Alex Henderson