Chucho Valdés · Spotify · Courtesy of Spotify
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Decoding Afro-Cuban Jazz
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Cuba
- Active from
- 1941-10-09
jazz
Discography
- Guapachá en La Habana1964
- Chucho Valdés1970
- Jazz Bata1973
- Piano I1976
- Tema de Chaka1981
- Lucumi1988
- Straight Ahead1988
- Solo Piano1993
- Grandes momentos de la música cubana1994
- Pianissimo1994
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 69,484
- Total plays
- 388,346
Tags
jazzpianolatinlatin jazzcuba
Winner of eight Grammy Awards: five Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy and creditor of many doctorates, Dionisio Jesus "Chucho" Valdés Rodríguez is natural from Quivican, Havana Province, Cuba. The son of the noted musician Bebo Valdes, Chucho began playing piano when he was three and by the time he was 16 he was leading his own group. In 1960 his father defected from Cuba but Chucho stayed behind. In 1967, he formed the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna and <a href="https://www.last.fm/music
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Cuba
- Place of birth
- Quivicán
- Father
- Bebo Valdés
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Position held
- goodwill ambassador
- Instrument
- musical keyboard
- Official website
- www.chucho-valdes.com
- Image
- Chucho Valdés at Istanbul Jazz Festival 20250701 (13).jpg
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