Faustino Oramas

Faustino Oramas, known by his stage name El Guayabero ( born June 4, 1911 in Holguín, † March 27, 2007 ) was a Cuban musician.

Faustino Oramas came from a poor dark-skinned family. He may have been older than it said his official date of birth. Some contemporaries speak to him an age of more than a hundred years. As a wandering minstrel ( Juglar ), he traveled from his youth the island of Cuba. His songs, which he accompanied with the guitar, negotiated by everyday life. Because of his puns in his songs, which were often flavored with ambiguity and small personalities, he was a very popular singer in his homeland. However, its primary domain was the Son At the age of 15, he sang and played the maracas in Septeto La Tropical, with his brother at his side.

Faustino Oramas had the reputation of being a woman worshiper. His stage name he owes a love adventure. He had to flee from a village from the wrath of the betrayed husband. He worked in 1938 in the song El Guayabero this experience. 1960 this song by Pacho Alonso and his Bocucos was added to the program and was in this way a world-known titles.

Oramas was a supporter of the Cuban Revolution, which had, according to his words taken out him out of the misery. Despite frequent such allegations in the press and other publications, he was never a member of the Buena Vista Social Club, but has performed with many famous Cuban musicians of his genre, such as Pablo Milanes, Silvio Rodriguez and Omara Portuondo of the singer. In 1998 his last record album, El tren de la vida ( The train of life). Just a few months before his death, in 2006, saw him perform regularly on stage, his inevitable Panama hat on his head, constantly witty, dressed in shiny vests that were decorated all over with medals.

Oramas Lenin died in hospital of his hometown of liver cancer.

• Cuban musicians
• Cuban
• Born in 1911
• Died in 2007
• Man