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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...
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  • Mack David both exist, and recordings of both have been quite popular. Pérez Prado's recording of the song as an instrumental with his orchestra featuring...
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    The Museo del Prado (/ˈprɑːdoʊ/ PRAH-doh; Spanish pronunciation: [muˈseo ðel ˈpɾaðo]), officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish...
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  • with music by Pérez Prado and lyrics by Bob Marcucci, published in 1958. The song is best known in an instrumental version by Prado's orchestra that...
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  • son. Pérez Prado gained hits such as "Mambo No. 5" and "Mambo No. 8" in 1950. The mambo boom peaked in the US in early 1950s, when Pérez Prado hit the...
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  • "Winifred Atwell: Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 14 May 2010. Huey, Steve. "Pérez Prado: Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 14 May 2010. Mawer, Sharon. "Lord Rockingham's...
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  • Mambo No. 5 (category Pérez Prado songs)
    dance song originally composed and recorded by Cuban musician Dámaso Pérez Prado in 1949 and released the next year. German singer Lou Bega sampled the...
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  • due to his recording with La Sonora Matancera with an arrangement by Pérez Prado. Years later the composition would achieve international fame beyond...
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  • (from Pérez Prado Plays Mucho Mambo For Dancing, 1952) Pérez Prado Pérez Prado 2:06 12. "Peanut Vendor" (from Havana, 3 A.M., 1956) Moises Simons Pérez Prado...
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  • Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban composer Daniel Pérez (basketball) (born 1984), Paraguayan player Danilo Pérez, Panamian pianist and composer Davide Perez, Italian...
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    on his music career. In the late 1940s, he sang guaracha-mambos with Pérez Prado, achieving great success. Moré returned to Cuba in 1952 and worked with...
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    last section, known as the mambo section.[citation needed] From Havana Pérez Prado moved his music to Mexico, where his music and the dance were adopted...
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    Solís, Julio Iglesias, Manuel Mijares, Vicente Fernández, Luis Miguel, Pérez Prado, Chavela Vargas, and Natalia Lafourcade among others. Outside the Spanish...
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  • Mexican films," and shares that it includes "knockout mambo numbers by Pérez Prado and Pedro Vargas". The film was also released as Hell's Kitchen. Violeta...
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    style, Mambo, was developed by Cachao, Beny Moré and Dámaso Pérez Prado. Moré and Pérez Prado moved to Mexico City where the music was played by Mexican...
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  • Latin American Favorites, MGM Records 1960 – Rosemary Clooney and Dámaso Pérez Prado – A Touch of Tabasco, RCA Victor 1963 – Julie London – Latin in a Satin...
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    Apple Blossom White)", which was recast as a resounding mambo hit for Pérez Prado. Guglielmi was born in Barcelona. He studied music at the Conservatoire...
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    Bega, is a German singer. His 1999 song "Mambo No. 5", a remake of Pérez Prado's 1949 instrumental piece, reached no. 1 in many European countries and...
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  • Dámaso Pérez Prado Mambo No. 8 Music by Dámaso Pérez Prado Que Rico El Mambo Music by Dámaso Pérez Prado Voodoo Suite Music by Dámaso Pérez Prado La niña...
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  • Guaglione (category Pérez Prado songs)
    best-known version of "Guaglione" was recorded by the Cuban bandleader Perez Prado in 1958 as an uptempo mambo tune. As a mambo, the track rose to fame...
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    Pepper Carl Perkins Oscar Peterson Phil Phillips Webb Pierce Gene Pitney Pérez Prado Elvis Presley Johnny Preston Jimmy Preston Lloyd Price Louis Prima Johnnie...
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  • improvised flute passages. Pianist and arranger from Matanzas, Cuba, Dámaso Pérez Prado (1927) established his residence in Havana at the beginning of the 1940s...
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  • prominence as dancer began in the 1960s, thanks to recognition of Dámaso Pérez Prado, "The King of Mambo", who invited her to join to his dance group. Afterwards...
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  • Francisco Pérez de Prado y Cuesta a (1677–1755), Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and Grand Inquisitor of Spain Guilherme de Almeida Prado, Brazilian...
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    such as Celia Cruz, Enrique Guzmán, Mike Laure, Sonia Lopez and Dámaso Pérez Prado. At the same time she was hired by the Vallejo Family to perform in La...
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  • takes inspiration from mid-twentieth century mambo musicians such as Perez Prado, Beny Moré, and Machito. The ensemble's name comes from the Yoruban word...
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  • White" Pérez Prado and His Orchestra "Unchained Melody" May 28 June 4 "Unchained Melody" Les Baxter "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" Pérez Prado and...
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    and left Paramount in 1956.[citation needed] Ferguson played with the Pérez Prado Orchestra on the LP Havana 3 A.M., recorded in February and March 1956...
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  • Representatives Pérez Prado (1916–1989), Cuban musician (original first name, Dámaso Pérez) Perez M. Stewart (1858–1924), New York politician Perez Zagorin (1920–2009)...
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  • own songs). The successful 1950 recording "Qué rico mambo", by Dámaso Pérez Prado and his orchestra, is considered as having initiated the boom of mambo...
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