Cachao - Israel López Valdés - was born on September 14, 1918, in Belén, a neighborhood in Old Havana, Cuba. A classically trained bassist, he began performing with the Havana symphony orchestra as a teenager, working under the baton of visiting guest conductors, such as Herbert von Karajan, Igor Stravinsky and Heitor Villa-Lobos, during his nearly 30-year career with the orchestra. He also wrote hundreds of songs in Cuba for bands and orchestras, many based on the classic Cuban music style known as son. He and his late brother, multi-instrumentalist Orestes Lopez, created the mambo in the late 1930s. https://youtube/watch?v=C5QPq0oTlb0
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 12:30:33 +0000
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