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Todos Estrellas
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Los Guaracheros De Oriente
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Afro-Cuban Jazz Project
30,687 listeners
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Eliades Ochoa y el Cuarteto Patria
20,608 listeners
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Septeto Nacional
19,060 listeners
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Celina González
25,975 listeners
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Monte Adentro
14,641 listeners
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Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Piñeiro
18,450 listeners
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Chico Alvarez
18,228 listeners
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