Chucho Valdés (born October 9, 1941), born Jesús Dionisio Valdés, is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. He was born in Quivicán, Cuba. In 1972 he founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba's best-known Latin jazz bands. Together with pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Valdés is revered as one of Cuba's greatest jazz pianists. His father is the famed Cuban pianist and former director of Havana's famous "Tropicana" night club band Bebo Valdés.
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Cynthia Weiner’s music playlist for her novel A Gorgeous Excitement
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"Music in the 1980s was unabashedly over-the-top—synthesizers, hard-driving
guitar riffs, propulsive drum fills—both mirroring and perhaps contributing
to ...
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