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イスラエル・ロペス
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イスラエル・ロペス

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Also known as Israel López, Israel López Valdés, Israel "Cachao" López

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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.

Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
105,532
Total plays
500,353

Tags

cubanlatinlatin jazzsalsajazz

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
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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