MP3 Ray Tico - Sólo Para Recordar

Ray Tico was part of the Cuban "Fillin" movement and is a legend in Costa Rica popular music. The intimacy created on this record by his vocal performance and his guitar is proof of his great talent as both composer and interpreter of boleros.

10 MP3 Songs in this album (39:53) !
Related styles: LATIN: Bolero, LATIN: Cuban

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This extraordinary composer, guitarist and singerâs entire life goes against the grain. His childhood in Puerto Limon marked him as an abandoned child and a likely candidate for marginalization and poverty; however, the artistic spirit made him change course and the young Ramon Jacinto Herrera went in search of his artistic destiny.

This temperament of the chosen led him to other countries and cities, stopping off in Bogotá, where he was nicknamed Ray Tico; he continued on his travels through different destinations and in Havana discovered his vocation as a composer. Next he headed for Washington and New York, where he consolidated his singing and guitar-playing style that was heavily influenced by Havana filin.

He soaked up the best of every one of those Callejón de Hammel masters, where filin had flourished. From Jose Antonio Mendez, âThe Kingâ, he took in urban inspiration and learnt how to approach the muse without the modernist aftertaste. He admitted Cesar Portilloâs iconoclastic guitar rhythm with its âsonâ dazzle and intimacy of the interpreter. That âtumbaoâ that brings out the instrumentâs strings and percussion at the same time comes from Niño Rivera, while Ñico Rojas taught him the ambition of originality uniqueness within the filin trend, and Frank Emilio showed him versatility in reinventing the past. Ray Tico thus created his own style from the most outstanding figures of filin, and he took it to all the corners of the continent.

His career began in Colombia; in Cuba he rubbed shoulders with Latin American pop superstars and, also in Cuba, he composed his best music. In Miami he was acclaimed by the Latin community who declared 13th April April 13th as Ray Tico Day; his concerts in New York and Washington were unforgettable, and in Costa Rica he has become a pop culture legend.

His music has been interpreted by important Latin American singers and musicians (Olga Guillot, Marco Antonio Muñiz, Alberto Beltrán, Los Chavales de España, Roberto Ledezma, Paquito DâRivera, Bebo Váldes, Hugo Enríquez, Los Sabandeños, Panchito Riset, the Berlín Symphonic Orchestra and, in Costa Rica, by Jorge Duarte, Rafa Pérez and Arnoldo Castillo, among others). Few can boast this background and still be popular with the publicâs current tastes and in their countryâs memory. However, there is also another peculiarity factor where Ray Tico is concerned: his art transcends the generation gap. His music has permeated youth culture, won over new generations and looks set to stay the course for years to come.

There is nothing conventional about Ray Ticoâs life. Excess courage made the artist overcome adversity as a child; excess ambition left behind the temptation of complacent youth and excess originality made him transcend the average artistâs comfortable superficiality. In the words of the English poet William Blake âThe road of excess leads to the palace of wisdomâ. Nothing describes Ray Tico better.