Genres Danzon Role Musical Artist | Name Antonio Arcano | |
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Birth name Antonio Arcano Betancourt Born 29 December 1911Havana, Cuba ( 1911-12-29 ) Associated acts Armando Valdespi, Orquesta Gris, La Maravilla del Siglo, Arcano y sus Maravillas Similar People Orquesta de Arcano y Sus Mar, Orestes Lopez, Senen Suarez, Cheo Marquetti, Enrique Jorrin | ||
Occupation(s) Musician, bandleader | ||
Antonio Arcaño Betancourt (Atarés, Havana 29 December 1911 – 1994) was a Cuban flautist, bandleader and founder of Arcaño y sus Maravillas, one of Cuba's most successful charangas.
After leaving La Maravilla del Siglo, a very popular charanga, Arcaño founded La Maravilla de Arcaño, later known as Arcaño y sus Maravillas. The band featured the López brothers, Israel López "Cachao" and Orestes López, composers and multi-instrumentalists that originated the danzón-mambo, the direct precursor of the mambo, through compositions such as "Rareza de Melitón", "Se va el matancero" and, above all, "Mambo", the piece that lent its name to the genre. Arcaño was posthumously inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame in 2000.
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