By Vicente Morin Aguado
HAVANA TIMES – Last Saturday, journalist Eduardo Cedeno Milan gave a news report on Cuban TV about Cuba’s Musical Editions and Recording Company (EGREM), calling it “Cuba’s longest-living recording company”. Stated as an absolute, this phrase enshrines a historic mistake and also testifies to the Party/State’s manipulative campaign, which has spread to most of our national past.
First of all, we need to make it perfectly clear that Cuba has had a prestigious recording company, PANART, since 1944. This label disseminated the work of other artists such as Nat King Cole, Josephine Baker, Miguelito Valdes, Barbarito Diez, la Orquesta America and La Sonora Matancera. We could also say that its studios were the foundation for creating EGREM in 1964, once they were nationalized.
“We all have been seen” figures such as: Nat King Cole, Josephine Baker, Silvio Rodriguez, Pablo Milanés, Chucho Valdes, Sonia Silvestre pass through their recording booths… I apologize for the repitition but let’s take a look at the uncalled phrase we all have seen them pass through its recording booths…
Whose recording booths? PANART’s or EGREM’s?
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