About half of "Para mi gente" is every bit as strong as "De Buena Fe", with the remainder being in a lighter, more pop vein. This album also has a strong flow. "La mitad de La Habana" and "Te conozco mascarita" are highlights from the middle of the album and the final ascent from "Ella No Vale Nada" to "Me Pasé de Copas" to "Voy a Mí" to "La bola" is very satisfying. It's been released with two different covers, but the contents are the same.
This timba classic begins and ends with different versions of "La Bola", the single biggest hit in the history of Cuban music - 52 weeks at #1 on the charts.
Cuba's hottest salsa act of the 1990's has to be Manuel Hernández. Better known as "El Medico de la Salsa" (The doctor of salsa), a name bestowed upon him by Jose Luis Cortes, leader of NG La Banda, and the one that helped launch his new career.
A graduate of medical sciences at the University in his native Havana, Manolin, as he is affectionately called, was singing here and there, when he was picked up to tour Mexico as part of a group. After his return, he realized that his true love was music, not necessarily medicine. So he put together his own 12 piece band, and as the saying goes, the rest is history.
