
In 1987 he joined his next group, Galaxia, before moving on to yet another, NG la Banda, the following year. At age 18, he joined his first musical group, playing alongside Gonzalo Rubalcaba in Grupo Proyecto, and soon afterward he joined La Orquestra de Pacho Alonso, with which he had the opportunity to tour internationally. Though Delgado had devoted himself to sports for many of his teenage years after giving up the cello, his interest in music grew with age, inspired by such salseros as Ruben Blades and Cheo Feliciano.

#Silvio rodriguez 29 grandes exitos descargar youtube license
At age 12, he was admitted to La Escuela de Iniciación Deportiva, where he devoted himself to soccer later, in 1979, he was admitted to El Instituto Superior de Cultura Física, where he was awarded his license in sports. At age ten, Delgado entered the Amadeo Roldan Conservatory, where he studied cello for a couple years but, more interested in sports than music, left after a couple years. He continued to release albums regularly afterward, most notably the Grammy-nominated La Fórmula (2000) and the nueva trova cubana-inspired collection Versos en el Cielo (2002) however, once he defected from Cuba to the United States in 2006 and released the Sergio George-produced En Primera Plana (2007), his career rose to new heights of success, earning a pair of Latin Grammy nominations and spawning his biggest stateside hit to date, "La Mujer Que Más Te Duele," a duet with salsa superstar Víctor Manuelle.īorn Issac Felipe Delgado Ramirez on September 11, 1962, in Havana, Cuba, El Chevere de la Salsa grew up in an artistically talented family: his father was a tailor, his mother was an actress, singer, and dancer in El Teatro Musical de la Habana, and his oldest brother was a singer, guitarist, and composer. Delgado's solo career began in 1992, and while it proved successful on all counts in his native Cuba, he didn't break internationally until the mid- to late '90s once he signed to RMM Records. The NG la Banda compilation En la Calle (1992), which showcases highlights of his time with the group, stands as a landmark release in the evolution of timba.

His tenure with the pioneering timba group only lasted until 1991, but during that three-year time span, he and the band created some of the most inventive and lively music in Cuba's illustrious history, in effect giving rise to new style of music. Though Delgado sang in a few different groups during the '80s, it wasn't until he joined NG la Banda in 1988 that he rose to any level of fame. Cuban vocalist Issac Delgado rose to fame in the pioneering timba group NG la Banda during the late '80s before embarking upon a stylistically varied and long-lasting solo career in the early '90s that brought him critical as well as commercial success.
