Cachao
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componist uit Cuba (1918-2008)
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Cachao, born López Valdés, was a Cuban musician, composer, conductor, and jazz artist. He was born in Havana and died in Coral Gables in 2008 due to kidney failure. His career began in 1926. He played the double bass and piano.
His musical style included danzón, son cubano, mambo, son montuno, and jazz. He received the Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Cuba
- Active from
- 1918
- Active to
- 2008
Discography
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 105,532
- Total plays
- 500,353
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Israel "Cachao" López (September 14, 1918 – March 22, 2008) was a Cuban double bassist and composer who helped popularize mambo in the United States in the early 1950s. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, won several Grammy Awards, and has been described as "the inventor of the mambo". He is considered a master of descarga (Latin jam sessions). Cachao was born in 1918 in Havana, into a family of musicians, many of them bassists—around forty or more in his extended family. <a href="http
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Key facts
- Musical artist.name
- Cachao
- Musical artist.image
- Cachao, 1960.jpg
- Musical artist.image_upright
- 1.2
- Musical artist.caption
- Cachao in Havana, 1960
- Musical artist.birth_name
- Israel López Valdés
- Musical artist.birth_place
- Habana Vieja, La Habana, Cuba
- Musical artist.death_place
- Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.
- Musical artist.instrument
- Double bass
- Musical artist.years_active
- 1926–2008
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- López
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Cuba
- Place of birth
- Havana
- Place of death
- Coral Gables
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Genre
- mambo
- Instrument
- double bass
- Official website
- www.israelcachaolopez.com
- Image
- Cachao (2).jpg
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- date of death
- 2008-03-22
- date of birth
- 1918-09-14
- cause of death
- kidney failure
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1926-00-00
- Commons category
- Cachao
- second family name in Spanish name
- Valdés
Sources (6)
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Article · Nederlands
Israel "Cachao" López (Havanna, 14 september, 1918 – Coral Gables, 22 maart 2008) was een Cubaans mambomuzikant en contrabassist. Als tiener zat hij al in het symfonieorkest van Havana. Samen met zijn broer (1908 - 1991) schreef hij duizenden nummers, waarvan eind jaren 30 het nummer Mambo. Daarin was traditionele Cubaanse muziek vermengd met Afrikaanse ritmes. De broers drukten zo een stempel op de Cubaanse muziek van de jaren 1930-1950. In de vroege jaren 50 maakte hij de mambo bekend in de Verenigde Staten. Hij heeft een ster op de Hollywood Walk of Fame en wordt gezien als de uitvinder van de mambo. In 2008 overleed hij op 89-jarige leeftijd in zijn woonplaats Coral Gables in de Amerikaanse staat Florida.
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