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Guillermo Portabales (born ''José Guillermo Quesada Castillo'',〔Giro, Radamés 2007. ''Diccionario enciclopédico de la música en Cuba''. La Habana, vol 3 p245〕 Rodas, Cuba, 6 April 1911 – San Juan, Puerto Rico, 25 October 1970) was a Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist who popularized the ''guajira'' style of Cuban music from the 1930s through the 1960s. His languid, melancholy, intensely lyrical ''guajiras'' and his elegant, stylish singing made him popular throughout Latin America, where he is still revered. == Discussion of basic data == His birthplace was Rodas in the old province of Santa Clara (Las Villas). In what is now the Province of Cienfuegos. He grew up in Cienfuegos. His father died when he was about 8 years old, his mother then remarried a man whose last name was Portabales (the director of the Hospital in Cienfuegos), thus where his "stage name" came from. As for his birthdate, Helio Orovio, in the original Cuban edition of 1981, left Portabales out entirely. In the usual Soviet-style way, any opponents of the revolution get 'painted out' of history; but Portabales had left Cuba years before the Castro revolution, and most such people still retained their place in official Cuban history. Portabales had even recorded an album for ''Gema'' in Cuba in 1960, after the revolution but before Egrem took over all recording rights in Cuba. The later English translation reinstated such 'enemies of the state' as Celia Cruz (who ''was'' a determined opponent of the regime) and Portabales, giving 6 April 1914 as his date of birth.〔Orovio, Helio 2004. ''Cuban music from A to Z''. Revised by Sue Steward. ISBN 0-8223-3186-1 A biographical dictionary of Cuban music, artists, composers, groups and terms. Duke University, Durham NC; Tumi, Bath. p166〕 Cristobal Díaz Ayala gives 6 April 1911.〔''The Díaz-Ayala Cuban and Latin-American Popular Music Collection: Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music'' at the FIU website (Florida International University) – Guillermo Portabales entry #2082.〕 The date and place of his death also vary in sources. Orovio's English edition says 1961. This is definitely incorrect, because there are at least three recording session whose dates are later in the 1960s: in 1962/3 in Miami; in 1967/8 in New York, issued on Gema 3070 ''Viva Portabales''; and, above all, in October 1970 in Puerto Rico, just a few days before his death (issued Gema 3086 ''Sones cubanos: Guillermo Portabales con Los Guaracheros de Oriente''). This simple refutation throws doubt upon Orovio's other data, and has led to a general acceptance of Cristobal Díaz's version of 25 October 1970. He did indeed die on October 25, 1970 while crossing a street in Puerto Rico late at night. He used to perform at a restaurant called Las Palmas in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico and while leaving the restaurant he was hit by a car and dragged several feet. As for location, Orovio says Isla Verde, Cuba and Díaz says San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is almost unbelievable that the two versions should be so different, and again, it seems right to prefer Díaz, especially as the best-known Isla Verde is in Puerto Rico. Both agree that he died in a traffic accident; he was apparently hit by a car when leaving a gig at the Las Palmas restaurant. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guillermo Portabales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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