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.
Person · Open Library
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- 1
Top works
- Master Sessions (Cachao)
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Cuba
- Active from
- 1918
- Active to
- 2008
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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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- A guide to extant coccolithophores (Calcihaptophycidae, Haptophyta) using light microscopy.
· 2010 · cited 36x
- 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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