Guajira (music)

[2] Guajira was utilized by Spanish Zarzuela composers, such as Ruperto Chapí, who included it in his well known play "La Revoltosa", from 1897.

[5] Since the thirties until his death in a traffic accident, in 1970, Guillermo Portabales sang and recorded numerous guajiras de Salón through North and South America with great popular acclaim.

Other renowned performers of guajira-son were Celina González, Coralia Fernández, Ramón Veloz y Radeúnda Lima.

One of the most famous guajiras-son is the Guantanamera, composed by Joseíto Fernández[5] and internationally popularized during the 1960s by the American folk singer Pete Seeger.

Also colloquially, it can refer to people who live outside the capital of Cuba, la Habana, and in rural areas without being farm workers.