José Alberto (El Ruiseñor): Mi Tumbao

José Alberto (El Ruiseñor): Mi Tumbao

May 18, 2021

Provincial Classic Listening Post 303. A freedom-fighting poet named Perucho Figueredo wrote La Bayamesa, Cuba’s national anthem, on horseback in 1867, after Spanish authorities surrendered to pro-independence forces in Bayamo. More than 150 years on, the city—located...