(Prensa Latina) Mexico - Mexican popular composer and singer Armando Manzanero will lecture on Bolero, a genre born in Cuba and strengthened here in Mexico, at the opening of a radio station in Spain this coming April 7, reported the local "Milenio" newspaper.

Radio Pop will open with a program on the genre that gave birth to the Cuban Trova, when a musician played Tristezas, composed by Pepe Sanchez in 1885, the first bolero ever recorded. He will also talk about the early days of the genre in Cuba, and its assimilation and enrichment in Mexico. Singer Carlos Cuevas and the band Los Juglares de Yucatan will accompany him to Spain.

Cuban bolero, born in Santiago de Cuba in the late 19th century, is completely different from what is known with the same name in Spain. The Prensa Latina Publishing House is currently editing the book "El Bolero: Miel de la Vida, by Dr. Oscar Oramas Oliva, touring the history of the genre since its appearance to its subsequent spreading around the world.