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The son montuno is a subgenre of son cubano . The son itself is the ___MASK96___ important genre of Cuban popular music . In addition , it is perhaps the ___MASK96___ flexible of all forms of Latin - American music , and is the foundation of many Cuban - based dance forms , and salsa . Its great strength is its fusion between European and African musical traditions . Bolero is a genre of slow - tempo Latin music and its associated dance . There are Spanish and Cuban forms which are both significant and which have separate origins . Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré ( 24 ___MASK8___ 1919  19 February 1963 ), known as Benny Moré , was a Cuban singer , bandleader and songwriter . Due to his fluid tenor voice and his great expressivity , he was known variously as El Bárbaro del Ritmo and El Sonero Mayor . Moré was a master of ___MASK96___ Cuban popular genres , such as the bolero , son montuno , mambo , and guaracha . Moré formed and led the Banda Gigante , one of the leading Cuban big bands of the 1950s , until his death in 1963 . Roberto Faz Monzón ( September 18 , 1914 -- April 26 , 1966 ) was a Cuban singer who reached the height of his popularity during the 1950s and early 1960s . Like his contemporary Benny Moré , he specialized in many forms of Cuban music such as son , guaracha and bolero . He was a member of the Conjunto Kubavana for three years before joining the Conjunto Casino in 1944 . At the Casino he sang alongside Agustín Ribot and Roberto Espí , achieving great success . In 1956 he left the Casino to establish his own conjunto , where he sang with Orlando Reyes and Roeangel Rodríguez `` Rolito '' . He continued to tour and record with his band until his death in 1966 . ___MASK40___ ( Spanish : " La Habana ") is the capital city , largest city , province , major port , and leading commercial centre of Cuba . The city proper has a population of 2 . 1 million inhabitants , and it spans a total of  making it the largest city by area , the most populous city , and the third largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean region . The city extends mostly westward and southward from the bay , which is entered through a narrow inlet and which divides into three main harbours : Marimelena , Guanabacoa and Atarés . The sluggish Almendares River traverses the city from south to north , entering the Straits of Florida a few miles west of the bay . The term conjunto ( literally " group ", " ensemble ") refers to several types of small musical ensembles present in different Latin American musical traditions , mainly in ___MASK83___ and ___MASK7___ . While Mexican conjuntos play styles such as norteño and tejano , Cuban conjuntos specialize in the son , as well as its derivations such as salsa . The guaracha is a genre of Cuban popular music , of rapid tempo and comic or picaresque lyrics . The word had been used in this sense at least since the late 18th and early 19th century . Guarachas were played and sung in musical theatres and in low - class dance salons . They became an integral part of bufo comic theatre in the mid - 19th century . During the later 19th and the early 20th century the guaracha was a favourite musical form in the brothels of ___MASK40___ . The guaracha survives today in the repertoires of some trova musicians , conjuntos and Cuban - style big bands . ___MASK7___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK7___ , is a country comprising the island of ___MASK7___ as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos . ___MASK7___ is located in the northern Caribbean where the Caribbean Sea , the ___MASK67___ , and the Atlantic Ocean meet . It is south of both the U . S . state of Florida and the Bahamas , west of Haiti , and north of Jamaica . ___MASK40___ is the largest city and capital ; other major cities include Santiago de ___MASK7___ and Camagüey . ___MASK7___ is the largest island in the Caribbean , with an area of , and the second - most populous after Hispaniola , with over 11 million inhabitants . Trova is one of the great roots of the Cuban music tree . In the 19th century a group of itinerant musicians known as " trovadores " moved around Oriente , especially ___MASK41___ de ___MASK7___ , earning their living by singing and playing the guitar . According to one writer , to qualify as a trovador in ___MASK7___ , a person should a ) sing songs of his own composition , or of others of the same kind ; b ) accompany himself on the guitar ; and c ) deal poetically with the song . This definition fits best the singers of boleros , and less well the Afrocubans singing funky sones ( El Guayabero ) or even guaguancós and abakuá ( Chicho Ibáñez ). It rules out , perhaps unfairly , singers who accompanied themselves on the piano .