Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro in Concert! Saturday, November 21st - 10:30 PM at Hoy Como Ayer, 2212 SW Calle 8, Little Havana, Miami Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro are paragon interpreters of son , Cuba's national music genre par excellence. Decades before the Buena Vista Social Club , the septet performed the compositions of its namesake, transforming them into international standards of the son tradition. Septeto Nacional , was formed in 1927 by the first superstar of Cuban son , Ignacio Piñeiro . Born and raised in the working class Havana neighborhood of Pueblo Nuevo, Piñeiro epitomized the urban sonero . He started out as a brilliant rumbero , and he was a well-known akpón or lead vocalist of the santería chant tradition. A bassist, vocalist and composer, he composed Échale salsita , perhaps the best known son of all time, and the source, according to some, of the term salsa by which son 's successor was to be known. The tune tells the story about a night ...