Cancion de Orfeo-Los Zafiros

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/29/arts/music-when-a-revolution-took-time-out-...
Los Zafiros was born in 1962 at a barber shop in Cayo Hueso. Nestor Mili, a composer who had written for the great mambo singer Benny More, was there to recruit an additional vocalist for a doo-wop group he had formed with Miguelito and Kike. The 19-year-old Elejalde was among those auditioning. He performed the ''Cancion de Orfeo'' (''Orpheus's Song,'' one of the album's most stunning tracks) with all the trembling volatility of a female torch singer. It was the most astonishing voice Mili had ever encountered in a man, an androgynously high instrument that fell just south of a soprano. (When the Beatles met Elejalde in Paris, they asked to look down his throat to see whether he was using a device.) Elejalde joined the band, as did his friend El Chino, a balladeer with a deep, smoothly debonair voice.

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• Cancion de Orfeo
• Los Zafiros
• Orpheus's Song
• Bossa Cubana
• Bossa Nova

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