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"Guantanamera" ( Spanish: "from Guantánamo, feminine" indicating a woman from Guantánamo) is perhaps the best known Cuban song and that country's most noted patriotic song, especially when using a poem by the Cuban poet José Martí for the lyrics. In 1966, a version by American vocal group The Sandpipers, based on an arrangement by The Weavers from their May, 1963 Carnegie Hall Reunion concert, became an international hit. It has been recorded by many other solo artists, notably by Julio Iglesias, Joan Baez, Jimmy Buffett, Celia Cruz, Bobby Darin, Joe Dassin, José Feliciano, Wyclef Jean, Puerto Plata, Trini Lopez, La Lupe, Nana Mouskouri, Tito Puente, and Pete Seeger and by such groups as Buena Vista Social Club, and the Gipsy Kings.
Guantanamera is the name of a United States cigar brand owned by Guantanamera Cigars Company of Miami, Florida and a Cuban cigar brand produced in Cuba for Habanos SA, the Cuban state-owned tobacco company.
Guantanamera is a 1995 comedy film from Cuba, directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, featuring an ensemble cast. Screenplay by Eliseo Alberto and others. The film was produced by Camilo Vives.
Guantanamera was an LP album, the first album featuring The Sandpipers, released by A&M Records in October 1966. The album reached #13 on the Billboard Top LPs chart, while the title track, released as a single, reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. Dolores Erickson appeared on the front cover which received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Album Cover - Photography.
The U.S. catalog numbers were LP 117 in monaural and SP 4117 in stereo. International releases included Australia (A&M SAML 932,128), Canada (A&M LP 117 and SP 4117), France (A&M 875 030), Germany (London SHA 202 and A&M 212 008), Mexico (A&M printed by Discos Tizoc, TAMM-9017 and TAMS-9017), Netherlands (A&M 540 415), New Zealand (A&M SAML 932128), Spain (A&M LP 117 and SP 4117), Taiwan (First FL-1501 on orange vinyl and Bell Song SWL-1043 on red vinyl), United Kingdom (Pye International NPL.28086), and Venezuela (A&M AMS-5007).
In addition to the 1966 LP released in the UK on the Pye label, a second LP also titled Guantanamera was released in 1970 in the UK on the A&M label (AMLB 1004) with a different cover and a track list composed of eight songs from the original Guantanamera LP plus three songs from The Sandpipers LP. Stan Britt of Record Buyer magazine supplied the sleeve notes.
In the 2012 novel A Quiet Life in Bedlam by Patricia Bjornstad, the lead character Kate Bamber relates a detailed fictional account (p. 94) of being the subject of the Guantanamera cover photo.
Guantanamera is Cuba's most noted patriotic song.
Guantanamera may also refer to:
- Guantanamera (cigar), the name of a United States cigar brand
- Guantanamera (film), a 1995 comedy film from Cuba, directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío