Buena Fe is a Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

n pop music duo, formed in 1999 in the province of Guantánamo

Guantánamo

Guantánamo is a municipality and city in southeast Cuba and capital of Guantánamo Province.Guantánamo is served by the Caimanera port and the site of a famous U.S. Naval base. The area produces sugarcane and cotton wool...

, composed by Israel Rojas Fiel and Yoel Martínez Rodríguez. It has released five studio albums: Déjame entrar (2001); Arsenal (2003); Corazonero (2004); Presagios (2006); Catalejo (2008) and Pi es 3,14 (2010). Its name, "Buena Fe", means "Good Faith" in Spanish language

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

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History

Israel Rojas Fiel, lawyer, and Yoel Martínez Rodríguez, student on a musical career, formed the duo. In November 1999 they made their debut with the song Intimidad. As a result, the Association "Hermanos Saíz" in Guantánamo

Guantánamo

Guantánamo is a municipality and city in southeast Cuba and capital of Guantánamo Province.Guantánamo is served by the Caimanera port and the site of a famous U.S. Naval base. The area produces sugarcane and cotton wool...

 invited the duo to join them.

In 2001 they moved to Havana

Havana

Havana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...

 to record their first album, Déjame entrar (Let me get in in Spanish language). There they joined with the agency Musicuba, of the label EGREM

EGREM

is the oldest Cuban record label, it is located in Havana. It was founded in 1964 following the Cuban Revolution...

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Style

The music of Buena Fe has a unique sound an excellent compositions. The trova

Trova

Trova is one of the great roots of the Cuban music tree. In the 19th century a group of itinerant musicians known as trovadores moved around Oriente, especially Santiago de Cuba, earning their living by singing and playing the guitar...

 influences are present in all their lyrics, which contain thoughts about the contemporary life, with contemporary sonority, allowing arrangements that makes each song fit in many Cuban genres, with influences from pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 and rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

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Although the experts include them in the pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 genre, according to Israel they make fusion music based in the trova

Trova

Trova is one of the great roots of the Cuban music tree. In the 19th century a group of itinerant musicians known as trovadores moved around Oriente, especially Santiago de Cuba, earning their living by singing and playing the guitar...

 style; and, while having pop tendencies, they use other styles and influences as well, which allows them to present more ellaborate ideas. Also according to Israel, although they don't claim to be a pop band, they are not concerned with being classified as such, but however he thinks that they do more than pop music.

According to Yoel, they make a fusion using pop music and trova, besides playing with other styles to keep the texts flowing. Also according to Yoel, some say that Buena Fe makes trova if playing with the guitar alone; and makes Cuban pop rock if playing with the band; and this might be true, except for the fact that they also experiment a lot.

They try to avoid categories; trying to make prevail the poetry and the venturous verse; trying to wrap it with pop rock sonorities, but with a direct link to what used to be the intelligent songs that was made from the 60s to the 80s in Cuba.

Déjame entrar

Déjame entrar (Let me get in) is the first studio album released by Buena Fe. It was released in 2001.

The album is an invitation to think about the problems of the contemporary people. Its style ranges from son

Son (music)

The Son cubano is a style of music that originated in Cuba and gained worldwide popularity in the 1930s. Son combines the structure and elements of Spanish canción and the Spanish guitar with African rhythms and percussion instruments of Bantu and Arará origin...

 and guaracha

Guaracha

The guaracha is a genre of Cuban popular music, of rapid tempo and with lyrics. The word had been used in this sense at least since the late 18th and early 19th century. Guarachas were played and sung in musical theatres and in low-class dance salons. They became an integral part of Bufo comic...

 to reggae

Reggae

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, pop rock

Pop rock

Pop rock is a music genre which mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music...

, and trova

Trova

Trova is one of the great roots of the Cuban music tree. In the 19th century a group of itinerant musicians known as trovadores moved around Oriente, especially Santiago de Cuba, earning their living by singing and playing the guitar...

, including the fusion of flamenco

Flamenco

Flamenco is a genre of music and dance which has its foundation in Andalusian music and dance and in whose evolution Andalusian Gypsies played an important part....

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It was nominated to the award Cubadisco 2002 in the categories Design and Pop. It was awarded the Cubadisco 2002 in the category of <Ópera prima>.

Tracklist:

1. Déjame entrar (3:25)
2. Sicología al día (3:22)
3. Como un espejismo (2:58)
4. La zanja (4:24)
5. La ventana (2:41)
6. Guantanamero (4:01)
7. Como el neanderthal (2:52)
8. No juegues con mi soledad (3:16)
9. Puede que sí, puede que no (3:13)
10. El destino de la abeja (3:17)
11. Para no ver eso (3:30)
12. Fuego y balacera (2:50)

Arsenal

Arsenal (Arsenal) is the second studio album released by Buena Fe. It was released in 2003.

The album was nominated to the Cubadisco 2003 awards, in the categories of Recording, Production, and Design. It was awarded the Cubadisco 2003 in the category of Pop, as well as the award EGREM 2004 in the same category.

Tracklist:

1. Arsenal (4:29)
2. To be or no te vi (4:33)
3. Tras tus pies (4:59)
4. Buen viaje (4:39)
5. Intimidad (4:00)
6. Nunca digas nunca (4:15)
7. Cuando te amo (4:12)
8. Soñar en azul (3:35)
9. Noviembre (3:46)
10. Parque de provincia (4:17)
11. Propuesta (3:36)
12. Fin de fiesta (4:25)

Corazonero

Corazonero (HeartFixer) is the third studio album released by Buena Fe. It was released in 2004.

Tracklist:

1. Llegaré, llegaré (3:16)
2. El duende del bache (3:53)
3. Fiarme de ti (4:44)
4. Soy (5:11)
5. Nacimos ángeles (3:16)
6. Por si las moscas (4:32)
7. Navegando a la deriva (4:39)
8. Corazonero (3:09)
9. Puesta de sol (5:14)
10. Cuando tú me faltas (3:36)
11. Sé de un ser (3:20)
12. Dios salve al rey (5:04)
13. Corazonero (rap) (3:05)

This album was nominated for the Cubadisco 2005 award in the category Pop/Fusion. It won the award EGREM 2005 in the category Pop rock and the award Cubadisco 2005 in the category Graphic design.

Presagios

Presagios (Premonitions) is the fourth studio album released by Buena Fe. It was released in 2006.

This album won the award Cubadisco in 2007, in the Pop Rock category.

Tracklist:

1. Quien es (5:15)
2. Contragolpe (4:27)
3. Das más (3:15)
4. Nalgas (4:40)
5. Con hijo incluido (4:37)
6. Sola va ya (4:15)
7. El eco de las plazas (3:57)
8. Sigo cayendo (4:06)
9. Premoniciones (4:21)
10. Si la vida pide vía (4:00)
11. Vamos corazón (3:40)
12. Gracias por el fuego (4:38)

Catalejo

Catalejo (Telescope) is the fifth studio album of Buena Fe. It was released in 2008.

The album contains social thinkings about the Cuban way of life and the world's; being also present the topic of love, in ballads such as Lástima.

Tracklist:

1. Los barcos en el puerto
2. Cada país
3. La primera vez
4. En cueros
5. Lástima
6. Fuera
7. Catalejo
8. Los fantasmas
9. Verso A. Machado
10. A la muerte
11. Era mi aire
12. Viernes, Sábado y Domingo
13. Soy lo que ves

Pi 3,14

Pi 3,14 (Pi equals 3,14) is the sixth studio album of Buena Fe. It was released in 2010.

Continue their line of work where Israel Rojas, the author of all the issues, go to an acute reflection on the national and international society and its components, and to make an aside to question also specific ways philosophical concepts of human behavior.

Tracklist:

1. Lo que fue
2. Dos Emigrantes
3. Pi(3,14)
4. Libre
5. Mamífero Nacional(feat. Elíades Ochoa)
6. La sospecha
7. Contracorriente
8. Despedida (feat. Pablo Milanés)
9. Lotería
10. Mar Adentro
11. Miedos (feat. Aldeanos)
12. Todo el mundo cuenta