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Bebo Valdés

1918 - 2013

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Dionisio Ramón Emilio Valdés Amaro (October 9, 1918 – March 22, 2013), better known as Bebo Valdés, was a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. He was a central figure in the golden age of Cuban music, especially due to his big band arrangements and compositions of mambo, chachachá and batanga, a genre he created in 1952. He was the director of the Radio Mil Diez house band and the Tropicana Club orchestra, before forming his own big band, Orquesta Sabor de Cuba, in 1957. However, after the end of the Cuban Revolution, in 1960, Bebo left his family behind and went into exile in Mexico before settling in Sweden, where he remarried. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bebo Valdés is the 640th most popular musician (down from 536th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Cuba (down from 42nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Cuban Musician.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Bebo Valdés ranks 640 out of 3,175. Before him are John Frusciante, Tony Sheridan, Freddie King, Wes Montgomery, Ayla Erduran, and Maxim Shostakovich. After him are Fritz Busch, Van Cliburn, Tyler, the Creator, Dick Taylor, Jacob Gade, and Johann Friedrich Fasch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Bebo Valdés ranks 119. Before him are Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, Edith Massey, Theodore Sturgeon, Helmut Lent, Alfréd Wetzler, and Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are George Lincoln Rockwell, Alexander Shelepin, Leila Mourad, Kevin A. Lynch, Ángel Labruna, and Teresa Wright. Among people deceased in 2013, Bebo Valdés ranks 151. Before him are Halton Arp, Esther Williams, Tony Sheridan, Henrique Rosa, Eiji Toyoda, and Deanna Durbin. After him are Van Cliburn, Luis Cubilla, Ceija Stojka, Scott Carpenter, Hans Riegel, and Jetty Paerl.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Bebo Valdés ranks 52 out of 300. Before him are Manuel Urrutia Lleó (1901), Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929), Juan García Rodríguez (1948), Ernesto Lecuona (1895), José-Maria de Heredia (1842), and Juanita Castro (1933). After him are Arnaldo Ochoa (1930), Silvio Rodríguez (1946), Camila Cabello (1997), Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino (1936), Rubén González (1919), and Mongo Santamaría (1917).

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Among MUSICIANS In Cuba

Among musicians born in Cuba, Bebo Valdés ranks 3. Before him are Compay Segundo (1907), and Carlos Puebla (1917). After him are Rubén González (1919), Chucho Valdés (1941), Pío Leyva (1917), Rico Rodriguez (1934), Jorge Bolet (1914), Eliades Ochoa (1946), Dave Lombardo (1965), Paquito D'Rivera (1948), and Rudy Sarzo (1950).

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