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Pérez Prado

1916 - 1989

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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 "The King of the Mambo". In 1955, Pérez 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)". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pérez Prado is the 501st most popular singer (down from 379th in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Cuba (down from 33rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Cuban Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Pérez Prado ranks 501 out of 4,381. Before him are Bobby Solo, Camarón de la Isla, SZA, Toby Keith, Sena Jurinac, and Marian Anderson. After him are Mia Martini, Stromae, Paula Abdul, Isabelle Aubret, Katy Perry, and Johnny Rebel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Pérez Prado ranks 95. Before him are José Manuel Moreno, Mika Špiljak, Jane Jacobs, Betty Grable, Yekaterina Budanova, and Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu. After him are Chiang Wei-kuo, Luis Corvalán, Jurij Brězan, Mercedes McCambridge, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, and Sangoulé Lamizana. Among people deceased in 1989, Pérez Prado ranks 93. Before him are Sergei Sobolev, Charles Vanel, Vasile Milea, Carlos Puebla, Albert Bormann, and Robert Mapplethorpe. After him are Antonia Brico, Cesare Zavattini, Marshall Harvey Stone, René Moawad, Ahmed Abdallah, and James Bond.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Pérez Prado ranks 43 out of 300. Before him are Omara Portuondo (1930), Huber Matos (1918), Tomas Milian (1933), Carlos Puebla (1917), Steven Bauer (1956), and Ana de Armas (1988). After him are Carlos Finlay (1833), Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (1942), Manuel Urrutia Lleó (1901), Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929), Juan García Rodríguez (1948), and Ernesto Lecuona (1895).

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Among SINGERS In Cuba

Among singers born in Cuba, Pérez Prado ranks 6. Before him are Gloria Estefan (1957), Celia Cruz (1925), Ibrahim Ferrer (1927), Rita Marley (1946), and Omara Portuondo (1930). After him are Silvio Rodríguez (1946), Camila Cabello (1997), Mongo Santamaría (1917), Laurel Aitken (1927), Pablo Milanés (1943), and Benny Moré (1919).

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