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- 27 OCT 2023
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- A Touch of Tabasco · 2019
- Easy Listening in the 60's · 1954
- Reign of the Mambo King · 1954
- The Real Cuban Music - 100 Essential Greatest Hits (Remasterizado) · 1950
- A Touch of Tabasco · 2019
- A Touch of Tabasco · 2011
- A Touch of Tabasco · 2019
- Plays Mucho Mambo... and Other Fantastic Compositions · 1950
- A Touch of Tabasco · 2019
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- These indelible orchestrations cemented his title as mambo king.
About Dámaso Pérez Prado
Universally known as the King of the Mambo, Cuban-born Pérez Prado was the single most important musician involved in the hugely popular Latin dance craze, helping to develop a bright, swinging style with massive appeal for dancers of all backgrounds and classes. Prado played the piano, but was often more in his element as the focal point of the audience's excitement; he leaped, kicked, danced, shouted, grunted, and exhorted his musicians with a dynamic stage presence that put many more sedate conductors and bandleaders to shame. Prado brought mambo all the way into the pop mainstream, inspiring countless imitators. ~ Steve Huey
- HOMETOWN
- Mantanzas, Cuba
- BORN
- 11. Dezember 1916
- GENRE
- Salsa and Tropical