Cuban music, similar to Caribbean music, is largely a mixture of African and Spanish origins. Although the first Cuban musical forms were directly imported from Europe, music in Cuba began to see the gradual transformation of European and African forms as the distinction became obscure by the 18th century. There are many different kinds of Cuban music, including, Son, Guajira, Bolero, Rumba, Cha-cha-cha, etc., but Guyun: El Maestro is a slow traditional Cuban music with a feel of jazz and complex rhythmic patterns.
José Antonio Nico Rojas was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1921. As a civil engineer, guitarist, and composer, he was involved in the ‘Feeling’ movement of Cuban music, which combined Cuban rhythms with elements of North American Jazz elements in the 1940s and 1950s. Until 1964, when he recorded his first album “Suite Cubana para Guitarra,” he worked as an architect and took music only as one of his hobbies. However, he became more serious about composing and performing his pieces and influenced Cuban culture.
