Written by Oscar Peterson, "Hymn to Freedom" is one of his  best-known compositions. Inspired by the U.S. civil rights movement it was composed in the 1960s.

Perfidia is a popular song about love and betrayal written by Alberto Domínguez, a Mexican composer and arranger born in the state of Chiapas. The English version of it is very popular.

The song is played in the film Casablanca when Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart dance in the Paris nightclub. You can see the flashback sequence of their romance there on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23k0xgvMeAc .

Pablo Milanés Arias (born: 1943) is a Cuban singer-songwriter and guitar player. He studied at a conservatory in Havana. He is considered one of the founders of the Cuban nueva trova, along with Silvio Rodríguez and Noel Nicola. He is a pianist and guitarist whose Brazilian-like melodies set him apart from the raw style of Silvio Rodriguez.

Among his songs, "Yolanda" is especially well-known.You can see Pablo playing Yolanda on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sct0-7rs2zY

"Guantanamera" ("girl from Guantánamo") is perhaps the best known Cuban song and that country's most noted patriotic song.

The music for the song is regularly attributed to José Fernández Diaz. The lyrics are based on the first stanza of the first poem of the collection "Versos Sencillos" ("Simple Verses") by Cuban nationalist poet and independence hero José Martí, as adapted by Julián Orbón.

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