This arrangement by Tito Puente is a "regalo divino" (divine gift) itself! Check out the over-the-top brass, the festive saxes, and the "high-intensity" percussion which just COOKS the music--Afro-rican style--and Tito slamming on the timbales! Celia's flawless Spanish diction...con SABOR...will have you singing in Spanish! EVERY family deserves to hear and dance to this FABULOUS Christmas carol. GET UP AND MOVE to this on Christmas morning, and you'll dance through all 12 days of Christmas!
What a joyous way to celebrate the birth of Jesucristo! Sparkling, swinging Afro-latin arrangement of the charming folk song "Arbolito" by Tito Puente, with Celia Cruz singing her heart out--and the happy refrain sung by the coro--"Ha nacido Nino, ha nacido el Nino Rey!" (The boy is born, the Boy King is born!"). Excellent example of the "Afro-latin Big Band sound", with the call-and-response format in the improvisation section. Gets me dancing to celebrate the Incarnation--EVERY TIME! AZUCAR!
I believe they are playing a "guajira" fragment--an Afro-cuban music form, made famous by the song "Guantanamera". A "guajira" is literally a "country girl" (guajiro means "country boy")--the Afro-cuban equivalent to the Puerto Rican "jibaro". You will often hear folks referred to as "guajiro" in old Afro-cuban mambos, guarachas, etc., especially music of the 1940's-- 1950's to early 1960's. Check out Benny More, Perez Prado and those old Cuban son canciones..and you'll hear "guajiro."
OK--why were the audience members just SITTING on the coro/refrain section? You MUST obey the impulse to MOVE when the coro belts out "Ha nacido Nino, ha nacido el Nino Rey!" :-) AAAAAAZUUUUUCAAARRRR!!
Que bendicion dio Dios en la voz de esta senora. Gracias a Dios santo y a ti Celita ahi en el cielo. =]
La + grande d todas; los inolvidables reyes de la musica latina. Celia y Tito
eres lo maximo celia tu musica, sabor y azucar nunca moriran mientras tus fans te sigamos recordando
☆GLORIA AL
NIÑO REY!!!☆
This arrangement by Tito Puente is a "regalo divino" (divine gift) itself! Check out the over-the-top brass, the festive saxes, and the "high-intensity" percussion which just COOKS the music--Afro-rican style--and Tito slamming on the timbales! Celia's flawless Spanish diction...con SABOR...will have you singing in Spanish! EVERY family deserves to hear and dance to this FABULOUS Christmas carol. GET UP AND MOVE to this on Christmas morning, and you'll dance through all 12 days of Christmas!
Hermoso recuerdo de navidad de los mas grandes interpretes de nuestra musica
Los Reyes en accion!!!!
MA GRANDE CELIA COME LEI NESSUNO!!!
Celia Cruz is our amazing memory at ChristmasTime.. this song is the epitomy of Christmas.. How we miss you, Linda, Hermosa, y Bella Celia
LAS GLORIAS DEL MUNDO DE LA RUMBA DESBORDANDOSE/
WOW..i remember this.. one christmas morning in the 90s sometime. I was just getting up from bed And did i ever. I Love You Celia!
What a joyous way to celebrate the birth of Jesucristo! Sparkling, swinging Afro-latin arrangement of the charming folk song "Arbolito" by Tito Puente, with Celia Cruz singing her heart out--and the happy refrain sung by the coro--"Ha nacido Nino, ha nacido el Nino Rey!" (The boy is born, the Boy King is born!"). Excellent example of the "Afro-latin Big Band sound", with the call-and-response format in the improvisation section. Gets me dancing to
celebrate the Incarnation--EVERY TIME! AZUCAR!
you make the world more beautiful Celia... i cried much when you had to go....
Tito y Celia very much missed!!
Azucarrrrrrrrr Celia Cruz Mi Amor Mi Vida
I believe they are playing a "guajira" fragment--an Afro-cuban music form,
made famous by the song "Guantanamera". A "guajira" is literally a "country girl" (guajiro means "country boy")--the Afro-cuban equivalent to the Puerto Rican "jibaro". You will often hear folks referred to as "guajiro" in
old Afro-cuban mambos, guarachas, etc., especially music of the 1940's--
1950's to early 1960's. Check out Benny More, Perez Prado and those old
Cuban son canciones..and you'll hear "guajiro."
A Nacido El Nino Rey!!!
can someone get this in stereo?..
what song are the playing when she walks onto the stage?
OK--why were the audience members just SITTING on the coro/refrain section? You MUST obey the impulse to MOVE when the coro belts out "Ha nacido Nino, ha nacido el Nino Rey!" :-)
AAAAAAZUUUUUCAAARRRR!!