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The six rollicking songs may have been recorded 70 years ago by a forgotten Cuban girl band but in the past four days nearly 50,000 people have downloaded them from Times Online.
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Anacaona was made up of 11 sisters from a working-class family who became a sensation in the nightclubs and cafés of prerevolutionary Havana.
George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Nat “King” Cole were among those who went to hear them play their frenzied son dance music, and they toured to Paris and New York at the end of the 1930s.
Like the much better-known musicians of the Buena Vista Social Club, they then faded into obscurity after Fidel Castro sealed Cuba off from the rest of the world.
Alicia Castro, 80, the youngest surviving member of the band, has written their story in a book entitled Anacaona.

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I followed the link you give in today's paper to download Anancaona's songs - & I just get an error message.
There isn't even a link in your on-line edtion.
Can't you have your website overhauled so that it works?
thank you
C Fraser, London,
I believe that Cubans would maintain that rather than 'Fidel Castro sealing off Cuba from the rest of the world' it was the US embargo that did this. Cuban musicians play all over the world - I have seen many in London over the past years. Also, Cuban medical and teaching professionals are operating in many developing countries, so this demonstatres that this statement is basically untrue....
Denis Lenihan, London,