Israel "Cachao" López
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contrabbassista cubano
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- 1
Top works
- Master Sessions (Cachao)
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Cuba
- Active from
- 1918
- Active to
- 2008
Discography
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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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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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· 2015 · cited 44x
- A guide to extant coccolithophores (Calcihaptophycidae, Haptophyta) using light microscopy.
· 2010 · cited 35x
- Sub-tropical winter guests, offshore Portugal.
· 2000 · cited 25x
- Calcareous nannoplankton as a tracer of the marine influence on the NW coast of Portugal over the last 14 000 years.
· 2005 · cited 21x
- Biometric study of <i>Coccolithus pelagicus</i> and its palaeoenvironmental utility.
· 2000 · cited 18x
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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
- 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
- start of work period
- 1926-00-00
- Commons category
- Cachao
Sources (6)
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Article · Italiano
Cachao, pseudonimo di Israel López (L'Avana, 14 settembre 1918 – Coral Gables, 22 marzo 2008), è stato un contrabbassista cubano, famoso per essere stato il padre del mambo e per averlo portato al successo negli Stati Uniti durante gli anni '50. Questo gli ha permesso di entrare nella Hollywood Walk of Fame, e di vincere dei Grammy Award. È considerato un maestro di (Latin jam sessions).
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