El Canário, (Manuel A. Jiménez, Orocovis, Puerto Rico, January 1, 1895 – November 21, 1975) musician and composer, most famous for his work in the plena style. Plena is the most typical rhythm of Puerto Rico, one of the most celebrated composers of this genre was Canario, who in the 1930s greatly popularized a somewhat modernized version of plena in Puerto Rico and the barrios of New York by adding piano, horns and bass to the basic plena arrangement with Canario Y Su Grupo