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EP record "Linda Soroa" — Ramón Veloz with the guitars of Ojeda (Areíto/EGREM 7″ 45 rpm EP, EPA-6133)

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A 7-inch, 45 rpm extended-play vinyl record in its illustrated paper sleeve, produced and distributed by EGREM on its Areíto label (the red-and-white disc label bears the Taíno cemí device and the slogan "La música cubana alrededor del mundo"). It collects four numbers in the Cuban guajira / música campesina idiom sung by Ramón Veloz, accompanied by "las guitarras de Ojeda." Side A: "En Mi Cuba Tropical" (guajira-son, by Roberto de Moya) and "Linda Soroa" (guajira, by Roberto Font); Side B: "Guasabeándome" (son montuno) and "Solito, Muy Solito" (guajira montuno), both by Sergio G. Siaba. The front cover shows a young woman in a red-and-white striped sleeveless top, seated in profile with her hands clasped over one knee, before a soft-focus green cascade — an image evoking Soroa, the Pinar del Río waterfall-and-orchid resort named in the title track. The back credits the color illustration to "Divulgación INIT," the sleeve design to Noelvis (Díaz), gives the catalog number EP-6133, and notes "Producido y distribuido por egrem – La Habana – Cuba – (Curva RIAA)." Condition: heavily aged and edge-worn sleeve, foxed and stained; a pencilled "225" (likely a price or inventory mark) appears on the back.

2025.1.283

EGREM, Cuba's state recording enterprise (founded 1964), issued it on Areíto; the cover image came from the publicity ("divulgación") department of INIT, the Instituto Nacional de la Industria Turística, which was created on November 20, 1959. INIT's early mandate centered on domestic tourism — making the island's beaches and beauty spots accessible to ordinary Cubans — and Soroa was exactly that kind of attraction. The music reinforces the message: the guajira and son montuno repertoire idealizes the Cuban countryside, and the title track is a sung tribute to a specific Cuban place. Ramón Veloz (1927–1986), born in Marianao, Havana, was the leading voice of the guajira de salón and música campesina; with his cancionero-tenor voice he turned especially to the guajira genre, developing a social and cultural interest in the life of the Cuban peasant, and he later co-founded the long-running television program "Palmas y Cañas" dedicated to this music, with his wife and artistic partner Coralia Fernández.

45 RPM Record

Music

The Cabrera Arús family collection

Leopoldo Arús Gálvez collection

2025.1

Ramón Veloz

Singer

Areíto

guajira

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

Spanish

Model Luz María Collazo is photographed with the Soroa falls in the background.

Design by Noelvis Díaz Dating: no printed date. The Areíto/EGREM imprint (EGREM founded 1964) and the "Divulgación INIT" credit (INIT active 1959–1976) bracket it; the catalog number EPA-6133 sits below the EPA-6301 of the Enrique Bonne EP catalogued earlier, suggesting a slightly earlier release — best dated to the mid-1960s (c. 1964–1967).

En mi Cuba Tropical

Roberta de Moya

Composer

Linda Soroa

Roberto Font

Composer

Guasabeandome

Sergio G. Siaba

Composer

Solito, muy colito

Sergio G. Siaba

Composer

Inscription

back cover

EP-6133

Note

back cover

2 25

$2.25

Pencil

18.5 cm

18.5 cm

vinyl, record case

Case

Leopoldo Arús Gálvez

owner

INIT

ilustration

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

production, ownership

Soroa

Pinar del Río

Pinar del Río

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

imagery

Names to confirm: "las guitarras de Ojeda" likely refers to a guitar group led by Miguel Ojeda, a laudista/guitarist long associated with Veloz (they played together in the Trío Cubanacán) — worth verifying.

Provenance mark: the pencilled "225" on the back is probably a shop price ($2.25)