MIGUELITO VALDES- BABALU

[Vichilu]

Increible la potencia, improvisacion y Ache de Miguelito.... Nunca he visto ni vere mas fervor y honestamente q calidad vocal..!! Gracias por estas joyas de video...

[LOTHARDOS]

Toda esta bellesa, la borraron de Cuba, cuando llegaron los amrgados,trites y entristecedores hermanos Castro, y todos esos sucios melenudos que "hicieron la revolucion" bahhhh, si le han sacado la alegria al pueblo cubano.....

[martineikmeier]

Fiz essa versão. Inspirado no Bola de nieve para uma peça de teatro (Ópera dos Vivos)

[claumarula]

La mejor interpretacion masculina que jamas he visto,y la mejor version femenina es la de Jewel Browm interpretando Jerry, son asombrosas...............!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[InteliMexTV]

Transformación MÁGICA la que manifiesta, en especial a partir del minuto 02:12...!!

[sandra66940]

Tenho a maior paixão por esta música cantada e interpretada pelo maior Miguelito.

[dixielatino]

Latino music in the caribbean is highly influenced  by AFRICAN rhythms and beats.so please folks don't get ur knickers twisted in a knot.

[leosbeljimenez]

un maestro de mi cordon espiritual,luz miguelon

[IanHunedoara8]

The "saints" are really Yoruba deities carried over by African slaves to Cuba. Their beliefs were driven underground and the identities were covered over by names of Christian saints- hence the term orisha.

[EarthaKit2]

cont'd

But what really bothers me, is that this obviously non -Afro Cuban made money AND ESPECIALLY, FAME, out of this music. There were other songs

It happened in the Harlem of that time 30s-40s. The White artists would go to Uptown NYC to Harlem Presentations, take the art downtown to Broadway, & the Big Screen and make money out of the ideas of Blacks.

It was done a great deal in those days. Fred Astaire did that a great deal, he got a lot of ideas for tap dance steps that way

[stuart1648]

@EarthaKit2 Youre entitled to your opinion but:1-His other big hit was Brua Manijar(SP?) which was utterly pro black 2-He was described by someone(cant remember unfortunately)as the most African White in Cuba.3-Musicians are ALWAYS "borrowing" from each other. Complaining about that is like trying to stop the sun from rising.. Personally I m just enthralled by his performances .

[Chapo2169]

En el piano se logra ver a Luisito Benjamin, gran pianista Puertoriqueño, quien fue el piano y director de la orquesta de Mr. Bablú.

[barbarie92]

uyyyyyyyyyyyyy a Miguelito se le metio un espiritu burlon!!!!!! jajajajaj que imprecionante interpretacion. gracias por subirlo

[wenbiafra]

ATOTO!!!!

[EarthaKit2]

You should go to Babalu Aye Magicotumbao to hear a modern version of this.

Valdes kept stealing the music of the pobre Afro-Cubans. Como ese "No Jueguez con Los Santos:

[jhassardCR]

Excelente cubanos!!! desde Costa Rica... Grcs

[luvmyrecords]

Miguelito's recording of this with the Orquestra Casino de la Playa is ridiculous, too, as is this video (I've gone between 2;30-2:45 a zillion times.)

[EarthaKit2]

@luvmyrecords

Looking at ths recording with fresh eyes, I agree with you.

To the Santeros, this is a very serious rite - praying to the saints. And the music isn't even the same as in their rites.

Valdes must have gone to a Santeria rite to get the material, AND he had a POWERFUL voice, but he was clowning around, mocking them. Invocking Babalu and Shango.

Valdes made his fame and his money, with this song, but it was an injustice that he stole the song from the Afro-Cubans.

[rasheremita]

@EarthaKit2 so you are the ones who will crucify ray charles i.e. for singing gosspel in a more atractive way, also i don't think that he went to a santeria rite to get some material, he grew up in that envyroment, and folk/traditional songs are of public domain so it's not stealing

[EarthaKit2]

@EarthaKit2

You';re distracting with Ray Charles. How did you get to Ray Charles.

What's the matter, you can't see Valdes' mockery with the plant, and his clownish motions. You can't see the mockery towards the Afro-Cubans, ?

[andersonkoala]

@EarthaKit2 yes but by appropriating the song he makes it immortal, he makes the song get to us. and if you notice well, he is not saying the gods' names in vain. the gods are running through him.

[stuart1648]

@EarthaKit2 I dont see any mocking;to me its a wonderful impassioned tribute

[EarthaKit2]

@stuart1648

Are you Black? I am a white Latina, and I must admit that Whites don't see any mockery in such. They only proceed in naivety

While the Blacks often take offence in what Whites do in this naivety.

It's all in the perspective.

cont'd

[yosoybabalu]

maestro!!

[leosbeljimenez]

maestro de mi cordon

[Nextravel]

Tenemos tambien una cantante brasileira que inmortalizo Babalu en su 60 años de carrera hasta hoy: Angela Maria.

[cubanomambi]

In Cuba, Miguelito Valdes was known as Sr. Babalu becasue his verion of Babalu was the one that set the standard. Desi Arnaz also had a great gift however his version of Babalu is most known in the U.S. due to the I Love Lucy shows. They are both talanted and I quite frankly like them both.

[rameller1]

@cubanomambi I just want to clarify that Desi Arnaz had a big hit with Babalu in the US long before " I Love Lucy" He started performing Babalu in his night club shows in the early 1940s. He finally recorded it for RCA Victor in 1947 while I Love Lucy started on TV in 1951. Of course he did sing Babalu during the Lucy run and it was natural since the song was one of his greatest hits and American audiences loved it. (If they only knew that Babalu is about "santeria" and witchcraft.)

[chechomode]

maravilloso

[jicamo53]

Pues mira que cosa cascaret, el pianista( compositor y arreglista) Luisito Benjamin es boricua.. y la famosa Cachita, otro boricua le dio vida, Rafael Hernadez.. El Tibiri-Tabara, Daniel Hernandez... Tienen ibbiano los Boricuas no?

[MrMagma67]

eso si es auténtico...

[NoirSunset]

~~@Aquabroad, you are an assuming fool.... you go off on a rant towards me just because I stated my preference.....I suggest that you realise, not everyone needs your lesson.I am quite aware of what is bein' sung about,and about Santeria.....Relax and take a deep breath,as I am almost positive you will once again rant against me>~~

[70sman4ever]

@NoirSunset Desi Arnaz was inspired by this man Miguelito valdes, as a matter of fact, Desi was a big admirer of Miguelito, and he mirrored his TV role after him.

[NoirSunset]

~~This guy is no Desi Arnaz.....Desi perfrorms this much better~~

[Aquabroad]

@NoirSunset No, he is definitely "no Desi Arnaz", this interpretation is "more genuine", not geared to the mass audience of popular TV of the 50's/60s. Do you actually know what he is singing about? Babalu-Aye is a Santeria Orisha (not a god, or saint but rather a guardian angel you become a son or daughter of who will protect/punish you throughout your life). No NOT Voodoo, but Santeria. An extremely interesting religion based on nature. This version also calls on Chango, another Orisha.

[stuart1648]

@NoirSunset I much prefer this to Desi both because of voice and seems much more authentic but each to his own.

[vare999]

alguien sabe en que pelicula canta miguelito valdez el cumbanchero

si es asi por favor diganme un saludo bye

[bhkidd]

Esta version fue mas bueno que la version de Desi Arnaz, pero me encantan ambos.

[urdanet]

Mr. baballu era un fenomeno interpretando esos afro cubanos.

sus interpretaciones son todas buenisimas especialmente esta.

[stuart1648]

pure genius (genio puro)

[3ciceron]

Es un video impresionante durante el video parece que en ocasiones Babalu que en el sincretismo al catolicismo es San Lazaro se posesiona de Miguelito Valdes.

[tete28akira]

esto si es voz ..q bozarron...grande Miguelito...

[juantimbale]

barbaro!!

[cascaret]

CUBA, SIEMPRE CUBA...... GUAJACONE' PA' LA ORILLA sras ysres..

[psicojuan23]

Hermosisisisimo...

[HighwayCinema]

solo una palabra: guau!

[SoneroIdol]

Excelente!!! que trance el del gran miguelito!!!

[santamacona]

hola me gustaria saver

en que año se hizo el video

y que clase de droga consumia

miguelito .

[kaztor62]

@santamacona no mi amigo,no siempre es asi ademas en esos tiempos era muy dificil conseguir esos vicios,es solo y meramente el sentir el ritmo y la letra de la cancion que se INTERPRETE, no como los cantantes de hoy que se basan en mover la boca con pistas o se ayudan de procesadores de voz por eso fueron grandes Cantantes saludos al parecer este video es de 1957 antes de cantar con la sonora Matancera,

[santamacona]

@kaztor62 deja de chamullar que no ba estar drogadooo

ademas creo que el video es del 58 para ser mas precisos

y ese hombre estaba drogadooo

caretaaa¡¡¡¡¡

[70sman4ever]

@santamacona este tipo se metia marijuana y coca man, pa cantar tan chevere hay ke consumir droga esa es la ley!!! LOL!!!

[caupoli]

yma sumac hizo una buena interpretancion de esta cancion

[jazz197613]

era Santero Miguelito??... en algun periodico leí que siempre que cantaba esta canción lo hacia con verdadera pasión y parecia entrar en trance..la gesticulación que hace y la vocalización parece bastante basada en los gestos africanos y algunos videos de los ritos santeros que he podido ver...

[GEastman1973]

Jorge Negrete también la grabó y creo que también es muy buena, saludos a los amigos del caribe desde México

[rioquibu]

La basura dictadura de de los Castros - no reconocen a Miguelito como parte de la historia cultural de la musica Cubana y todavia imbesiles artistas famosos del mundo van a Cuba para darle valores a los cananas esos.

[30martin082007]

Gracias a Yma Sumac conocí esta canción.

[magubo7712]

Si algo caracterizó a Perez Prado era que casi no tenía cuello, de ahi su apodo, el cara de foca; y si vemos los videos donde aparece Perez, vemos los tacones grandes que tenia, debido a su poca estatura.

[alexandshady]

Sta Muy Muy Bueno

[rioquibu]

la voz elastica de miguelito - lindo video - gracias

[cascaret]

GUAJACONE' PA' LA ORILLA

[quintokid]

el que esta en la conga se parece al difunto Ray Romero

[MatuArt]

que lindo papa!

[adrian8188]

Tenia varios anos de escuchar este nombre Miguelito Valdez, en periodicos y radios en sus secciones de musica, me decian que era un gran baluarte de la cancion cubana. En verdad como analista musical puedo decir que Miguelito Valdez, es genial , tenian razon los que me habian hablado de este cantante cubano.

Gracias por este video hoy confirmo la calidad de Valdez.

[Moraito]

Espectacular

[blindadosalas1970]

Por Dios, es que en realidad no es Pérez Prado, busquen en "papá google" en imágenes y pongan "pérez prado" y vean bien....

[jujifina]

si es miguelito!



no es perez

[ocabrera1974]

Perez Prado no era tan alto ni tocaba timbales asi que no puede ser..

[shaspassren]

muy bueno

[fasa260572]

que barbaro sin duda era un cantante extraudinario lo admiro y casi tengo todas sus interpretaciones pero este video esta super

[lcfb1]

Este video de mi abuelo no lo conocia! Gracias por haberlo subido!!! Increible! Giannina Valdés

[dialecto01]

Gracias por subir videos de mi abuelo. Me parece increible verlo diariamente en la WEB.

(Thanks for uploading videos from my grandfather, it is amazing Im able see him on the web on a daily basis)

Chad Miguel Valdes

[bontsai]

wow, terrific......

[Mambomaniaco]

y dicho por un crítico musical exigente como lo fue el gran  Anselmo Sacasas, "era un extraordinario guitarrista, además de ser un músico all around." No pueden olvidar que fue el percusionista y cantante a la vez en la orquesta Casino de la Playa, y en una jazz band de aquella época, los tambores eran un puesto esencial. perteneciente y precusor de una clase ya extinguida!

[Mambomaniaco]

Gracias a los discos editados por el sello tumbao podemos apreciar lo grande que fue el maestro Babalú, completísimo artista, cantante compositor musico

[braccia07]

Bravo Babalu!

[Batirigirl]

Que lindo! Maferefun Asojano! Miguelito le canta a San Lazaro-Babalu Aye y tambieno a Ochun, Yemaya y a Chango. El de los timbales es Damaso Perez Prado, si señor!

[elcuraddp333]

chango siempre adentro

[Over18Also]

Great stuff! I remember watching his TV in the early 1970's on a Spanish television station. Could not and still cannot understand everything, but fun nevertheless.