Editing Plena (section)

==Composers==
As a folk genre, there have been many good composers, some well known in their day and into the present. Perhaps one of the genre's most celebrated composers and performers was [[Manuel Jiménez (musician)|Manuel Jiménez]], known as 'El Canario'. Certainly, there were many others, including such greats as [[Ramito]], [[Ismael Rivera]], [[Mon Rivera]] (the junior), and [[Rafael Cortijo]]. In 2006, Tito Matos and [[Los Pleneros de la 21]] received a Grammy nomination for their {{lang|es|Para Todos Ustedes}} plena songs recording.<ref name="Smithsonian - Tito Matos">{{cite web | title=Tito Matos: Puerto Rican plena drummer | website=Smithsonian Folkways Recordings | date=1 December 2008 | url=https://folkways.si.edu/tito-matos-puerto-rican-plena-drummer/latin-world/music/article/smithsonian | access-date=5 September 2020}}</ref>

The genre has had a revival recently, as evident by the emergence of many plena bands (such as [[Plena Libre]], [[Viento de agua]] and others) and its use in various songs, such as [[Ricky Martin]]'s recent song "[[Pégate]]" and [[Ivy Queen]]'s "[[Vamos A Celebrar]]".{{fact|date=March 2025}}

In 1953, Puerto Rican writer, [[Luis Palés Matos]] wrote {{lang|es|Plena del Menéalo}} urging the Puerto Rican woman to move it and ends the plena with the line {{lang|es|¡Para que rabie el Tio Sam}} (to make "[[Uncle Sam]]" angry).<ref>{{cite magazine | first=Luis |last=Pales Matos |title=Plena del Menéalo| magazine=Revista Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña #1 octubre-diciembre 1958 | via=Issuu |url=https://issuu.com/coleccionpuertorriquena/docs/revista_icp__1_octubre-diciembre_1958 | language=es | access-date=2020-11-03}}</ref>