EGREM (Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales; spanish for musical recording and publishing company) is a Cuban label, located in Havana. It was founded in 1964 in the course of nationalisations. Havana (Spanish: San Cristóbal de La Habana; UN/LOCODE: Habana (CU HAV)) is the capital of Cuba and, with a population of 2. ... For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... Nationalization is the act of taking assets into state ownership. ...
This being socialist Cuba, the archive, the Egrem record label and the studio itself are owned by the Cuban government.
There's a high-energy set from Van Van's former pianist Pupy, who was the best-selling Egrem artist in Cuba in 2003, and of course there's a CD featuring early recordings from such Buena Vista stars as Ibrahim Ferrer, Eliades Ochoa, Ruben Gonzalez and Omara Portuondo.
Until the early 1990s, Egrem was subsidised by the government, but then came the "special period" - the world-widecollapse of communism that left Cuba in isolation.
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