Filin
Filin (Spanish: filin) was a Cuban, but US–influenced, popular song fashion of the late 1940s to the early 1960s. The word is derived from feeling, and is sometimes spelled filin or even el filin. It describes a style of post-microphone jazz-influenced romantic song (~crooning).
The Cuban roots of filin were in the bolero and the canción. It was related to the trova: in fact, filin was sometimes…