Los Compadres was a famous Cuban

Music of Cuba

The Caribbean island of Cuba has developed a wide range of creolized musical styles, based on its cultural origins in Europe and Africa. Since the 19th century its music has been hugely popular and influential throughout the world...

 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...

 duo formed by Lorenzo Hierrezuelo

Lorenzo Hierrezuelo

Lorenzo Hierrezuelo was a Cuban trova musician, a singer, guitarist and composer. His face showed clear signs of Indian descent: he was an indo-mulatto . He was the son and nephew of soneros, and he grew up in the ambiance of this type of Cuban music and dance...

 in 1947. At the time Lorenzo had a singing duo with María Teresa Vera

María Teresa Vera

María Teresa Vera was a Cuban singer, guitarist and composer. She was an outstanding example of the Cuban trova movement....

, and this partnership continued alongside the new venture. His first partner in Los Compadres was Compay Segundo

Compay Segundo

Compay Segundo was a Cuban trova guitarist, singer and composer.-Biography:...

 (a famous trova singer and guitarist in his own right), who became the second voice and tres

Tres

The tres is a 3-course, 6-string chordophone which was created in Cuba. A tres player is called a tresero in Cuba and a tresista in Puerto Rico.-Cuban tres:In Cuba, the son was created as a song and a salon dance genre...

 player of the duo. Later, when Compay Segundo moved on, Lorenzo formed up with his brother, Rey Caney

Rey Caney

Rey Caney is a Cuban singer, guitarist and tresero. He led Cuarteto Patría for some time: this famous group is now led by Eliades Ochoa. In the middle 1950s he took over Compay Segundo's place in the duo Los Compadres, the other partner being his elder brother Lorenzo Hierrezuelo...

, keeping the same name for the duo. Both partnerships made many recordings and toured widely in Latin America

Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

 and the U.S.A.