RAFAEL HERNANDEZ Campanitas De Cristal

Rafael Hernández (October 24, 1892 December 11, 1965), is considered by many to be the greatest composer of Puerto Rican music. Hernández (birth name: Rafael Hernández Marín) was born in the town of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, into a poor family. As a child, he learned the craft of cigar making, from which he made a modest living. He also grew to love music and asked his parents to permit him to become a full-time music student. When he was 12 years old, Hernández studied music in San Juan, under the guidance of music professors Jose Ruellan Lequenica and Jesús Figueroa. He learned to play many musical instruments, among them the clarinet, tuba, violin, piano and guitar. However, according to many Puerto Rican music historians, it was when he learned how to write music that his life and the history of Puerto Rican music would change forever. [1] At the age of 14, he played for the Cocolia Orquestra. Hernández moved to San Juan where he played for the municipal orchestra under the director Manuel Tizol. n 1917, Rafael Hernández was working as a musician in North Carolina, when the U.S. entered World War I. The Jazz bandleader James Reese Europe recruited brothers Rafael and Jesús Hernández, and 16 more Puerto Ricans to join the United States Army's Harlem Hell fighters musical band, the Orchestra Europe. He enlisted and was assigned to the U.S. 369th Infantry Regiment (formerly known as the 15th Infantry Regiment, New York National Guard, created in New York City June 2, 1913). The regiment, was nicknamed "The Harlem Hell Fighters" by the Germans, served in France. Hernandez toured Europe with the Orchestra Europe. The 369th was awarded French Croix de Guerre for battlefield gallantry by the President of France.

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[2112l]

en mexico, una semana antes de morir escribio en mi viejo san juan, por la nostalgia y añoranza que tenia de su tierra puerto rico

[ramoburg]

@2112l "En Mi Viejo San Juan" no es de Rafael Hernandez, la escribio Noel Estrada.

[Serglish]

Beatiful style and remarkable touch of borinquen! I am Mexican but I grew up with this music, God bless Puerto rico and its people, dont forget your roots boricuas!

[jamarrer]

The greatest composer in the Antilles and perhaps all latin america.

[BACHATABEGINNINGS]

Esta es la version lenta. Version estilo Balada Lenta. La version estilo "Bolero Ritmico Boricua" es mas rapida y movida y la mas preferida en Puerto Rico y el Caribe. Thanks to the poster anyway. Just saying there are different ritmos to it.

[CFITOMAHAWK]

@HELLOGUARDIA Rafael brought the style of Boleros Jibaros Boricuas to Mexico. That is what attracted them to the point of paying him to stay and write more there. Other Mexicans like Agustin Lara adopted the Bolero Boricua" style or rhythm on their songs too. This is a slow song. But Preciosa and others are those Boleros.

Pedro Flores and Daniel Santos made them famous too All over Latin America. Now is all "Bachata" which is quite the close to Boleros Jibaros Boricuas (with another name).

[AbeybladeAsteR70185]

BI****CH

[gomerijos]

@2112l En mi Viejo San Juan feu escrita por Noel Estrada y grabada por primera vez por el Trio Vegabajeno en el 1943.Rafael Hernandez Fallecio en San Juan,Puerto Rico en le 1965.

[MauricioGarces]

Don Rafael regresó a Puerto Rico en 1953 y allí murió en 1965

[TheSpankeydmonkey1]

@Serglish- Too bad I discovered this beautiful music in my old age. I am Tejano and would love to visit Puerto Rico before I leave this earth. Such beautiful people and such beautiful music. God Bless Puerto Rico!

[HELLOGUARDIA]

This rhythm, bolero, was created in Puerto Rico, but it was adopted by the Mexicans and this mix gave birth to some of the most beautiful melodies in the world to date. In fact Mexican and puertorican bolero share the same cadence because the early performers of the genre were groups composed of both mexicans and puerto ricans such as Los Panchos. Is not a latin american thing... its a Puerto Rican and Mexican thing but it went all over the latin world and we all love it.

[luisromansoto]

@Serglish these songs carry an often forgotten message, in mexico rafael hernandez was accepted as a brother, I myself grew up listening to my dad sing mexican songs, the truth is we are all of us brothers viva latinoamerica, y que Dios te bendiga.