Filin ( Spanish : filin ) was a Cuban, but US–influenced, popular song fashion of the late 1940s to the early 1960s. The word is derived from feeling , and is sometimes spelled filin or even el filin . It describes a style of post-microphone jazz -influenced romantic song (~ crooning ).
4-422: Filin may refer to: Filin (music) , a Cuban song fashion of the mid 20th century Filin class guard ship , a class of ships Filin (surname) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Filin . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
8-500: The trova : in fact, filin was sometimes regarded as a renewal or reinvigoration, of the old trova. Some Cuban quartets, such as Cuarteto d'Aida and Los Zafiros , modelled themselves on U.S. close-harmony groups. Others were singers who had heard Ella Fitzgerald , Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole . Filin singers included César Portillo de la Luz , José Antonio Méndez, who spent a decade in Mexico from 1949 to 1959, Frank Domínguez ,
12-795: The blind pianist Frank Emilio Flynn , and the great singers of boleros Elena Burke and the still-performing Omara Portuondo , who both came from the Cuarteto d'Aida. A house in Havana, where the trovador Tirso Díaz lived, became a meeting-place for singers and musicians interested in filin such as: Luis Yáñez, César Portillo de la Luz, José Antonio Méndez, Niño Rivera, José Antonio Ñico Rojas , Elena Burke, Froilán, Aida Diestro and Frank Emilio Flynn . Here lyricists and singers could meet arrangers, such as Bebo Valdés , El Niño Rivera (Andrés Hechavarria), Peruchín (Pedro Jústiz), and get help to develop their work. The filin movement, which originally had
16-412: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Filin&oldid=932824655 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Filin (music) The Cuban roots of filin were in the bolero and the canción . It was related to
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