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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Mambo No. 5 (category Songs written by Pérez Prado)
    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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    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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  • 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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  • "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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • (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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  • Madrid: Museo del Prado. ISBN 978-84-8480-129-0. Garrido Pérez, Carmen (1992). Velázquez, técnica y evolución. Madrid: Museo del Prado. ISBN 84-87317-16-2...
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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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    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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    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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  • Victoria as Cantante Los Diamantes as Cantantes Chelo La Rue Dámaso Pérez Prado as Pérez Prado Arturo Castro 'Bigotón' as Señor Félix Martínez Enrique del Castillo...
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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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  • announcement. The band's name was taken from the title of a 1956 album by Pérez Prado. Havana 3am's music incorporated elements of rockabilly, Latin and reggae...
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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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  • 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 rendition include the following: Armando Manzanero, Bebo Valdés, Pérez Prado, Isabel Pantoja, Javier Solís, Charles Manson, Rolando Laserie, Los Lobos...
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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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  • 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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  • featuring Antônio Carlos Jobim and Astrud Gilberto "Mambo No. 5" by Pérez Prado "El Manisero (The Peanut Vendor)" by Don Azpiazú "Oye Cómo Va" by Santana...
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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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  • 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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    cultural impact. Pérez Prado composed such famous pieces as "Mambo No. 5" and "Mambo No. 8". At the height of the mambo movement in 1955, Pérez hit number one...
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