Cachao
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Israel López Valdés (September 14, 1918 – March 22, 2008), better known as Cachao ( ), was a Cuban double bassist and composer. Cachao is widely known as the co-creator of the mambo and a master of the descarga (improvised jam sessions). Throughout his career he also performed and recorded in a variety of music styles ranging from classical music to salsa. An exile in the United States since the 1960s, he only achieved international fame following a career revival in the 1990s.
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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
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