Dámaso Pérez Prado
(1916-1989)
Cuban musician
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Dámaso Pérez Prado (December 11, 1916 – September 14, 1989) was a Cuban bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger who popularized the mambo in the 1950s. His big band adaptation of the danzón-mambo proved to be a worldwide success with hits such as "Mambo No. 5", earning him the nickname "King of the Mambo". In 1955, Prado and his orchestra topped the charts in the US and UK with a mambo cover of Louiguy's "Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)". He frequently made brief appearances in films, primarily of the rumberas genre, and his music was featured in films such as La Dolce Vita.
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José Dámaso Pérez Prado 11 December 1916 Matanzas, Cuba
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| Died |
14 September 1989 (aged 72) Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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| Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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