"Guantanamera" may be Cuba's most successful export since sugar. Inside the country, it's an unofficial anthem, while abroad it's one of the most recognizable symbols of the Communist island nation.

[ Cheers and applause ] [ Piano plays ] -♪ Todo voy a hacer hermoso y constante ♪ ♪ Todo es música y razón ♪ Y todo, como el diamante ♪ Antes que luz es carbón ♪ Yo quiero cuando me muera sin patria, ...

It is impossible to avoid. At times it seems strains of the Guajira Guantanamera, Cuba’s unofficial anthem, float out of every bar and restaurant in the city. The oft-repeated ditty, originally ...

The singer and composer Joseíto Fernández Díaz, so inspired by his lost girlfriend from Guantánamo, immortalized with "La Guantanamera," was born 105 years ago this September 5, in the neglected ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This week’s song has undergone quite a journey: from a 19th-century Cuban national hero to a 21st-century ...