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Filin (Spanish: filín) 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 feelín or even el feeling. It describes a style of post-microphone jazz-influenced romantic song (~crooning).The Cuban roots of filín were in the bolero and the canción. It was related to the trova: in fact filín was sometimes regarded as a renewal or reinvigoration of the old trova.