Canciones del Solar de los Aburridos (transl.âÂÂ"Songs from the Tenement of the Bored") is the third collaborative studio album by Puerto Rican-American trombonist and singer Willie Colón and Panamanian singer-songwriter Rubén Blades, released on September 20, 1981, by Fania Records. It is the second most successful album of the duo, being a post-boogalo album with the sounds of hard salsa, a characteristic of the Harlow Orchestra.
Canciones del Solar de los Aburridos is the third of five collaborative albums produced by Rubén Blades and Willie Colón for Fania. The songs were mainly composed by Blades ranging in theme from politics to comedy.
Although Grammy-nominated, Canciones del Solar de los Aburridos received little air play in the United States at the time of its release due to the political slant of the song "Tiburón" (literally, "Shark") referring to U.S. hegemony in Latin America. The main opposition to the composition came from the Cuban communities in the U.S. In 1991 Willie Colón reflected, "that type of composition caused us a lot of trouble, so much so that at one point when we were doing "Pedro Navaja" and "Tiburón" with Blades, we had to perform in bulletproof vests." However, reception was much warmer in Puerto Rico and other Latin American countries, where "Tiburón", "Te Están Buscando" and "Ligia Elena" were major radio hits.
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